Source: Tue, 7 May 2013 02:14 PM
Author: Stella Paul

KANKER DISTRICT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four years after Kalavati Salam was elected to lead the Nangarbeda village council in Central India’s Chhattisgarh state, she has finally got her first development plan rolling.

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The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) was established in May 2000 and provides direct grant assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) while fostering long-term socioeconomic development. The grants target poverty reduction initiatives with the direct participation of nongovernment organizations, community groups, and civil society.

SUBMITTED BY RASMUS HELTBERG ON WED, 2013-04-03 16:25

Income support is an essential part of crisis and disaster response. Time after time, governments, donors, and humanitarian agencies step in with support to people affected disasters and economic crisis. They often do this on an ad hoc basis, improvising how and what support to provide. Why not build systems that could respond quickly wherever and whenever crisis or disaster strikes?

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The Kosi river rises in the Tibetan plateau of China and flows across Nepal into Bihar, joining the Ganges near Kursela, India. On 18th August 2008, the Kosi breached its embankments at Kusaha in Nepal’s Sunsari district, resulting in massive floods across Nepal and Bihar. The Kosi floods were subsequently declared a national calamity by the Government of India (GoI).

ByBhavika Jain, TNN | Mar 5, 2013, 09.58 PM IST

MUMBAI: With most parts of the state facing a sever drought this year, corporators of the Shiv Sena have come head to contribute their salary of one month towards the drought relief fund.

In a letter to Mayor Sunil Prabhu, leader of the house Yashodhar Phanse has promised that all the 84 sena corporators in the BMC will donate salary of a month to help the farmers.

"The situation is very grim all across the state, we are trying to help in whatever little way we can," said Phanse

ACTED launches South/Southeast Asia Regional Strategy 2013-2015

Sri Lanka is recovering from a devastating 26-year civil war, which ended in May 2009 with the military defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the government of Sri Lanka. The rapid reconstruction of major roads, power lines and public buildings by the government is an impressive achievement. The return of 300,000 people displaced at the end of the war was also swift, but in a number of cases the government of Sri Lanka did not adhere to internationally accepted standards for voluntary, safe and dignified return.

TNN | Jan 24, 2013, 04.46 AM IST

SHIMLA: After a spell of heavy snowfall, it has become a herculean task for the Himachal Pradesh government to ensure power supply and open blocked roads to facilitate stranded people. It is being demanded that the government should declare the heavy snowfall as natural calamity so as to invoke disaster management plans and press Army into service to start relief and rescue operations.

New Delhi, 2 January 2012 – Twenty women graduated from the first JRS-sponsored Chin women's tailoring course receiving not only new sewing machines for Christmas, but the know-how to make use of them in the new year.

All 20 women – JRS staff and representatives from the Chin Refugee Committee and the Burmese Women's Department, community-based organisations that assisted in arranging the seven-month course – attended the ceremony.