Recovery and Reconstruction

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Kashmir Pressing Delhi for Aid for Quake-Hit Victims

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New York Times

By BETWA SHARMA

NEW DELHI —After an earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir state on May 1 left thousands of people homeless and caused 6 billion rupees in infrastructure damage, state officials said Tuesday that they are petitioning the central government for a special relief package.

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Indian Maoists give green light to local land restoration in conflict zones

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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Afghanistan + 15 others
Asia Pacific Zone Office MAA50001 Annual Report 2012

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IFRC

This report covers the period 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012

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Bangladesh + 12 others
Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction: Stories of Triumph from the Field

Description

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.

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Sunflower cultivation brings ray of hope for farmers

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Times of India

TNN | Apr 12, 2013, 05.09 AM IST

Bhadrak: The perennial threats of flood and drought over traditional paddy cultivation in most of coastal Bhadrak has forced farmers to look for a new option: sunflowers.

A large number of farmers in the district have taken up sunflower cultivation as the best alternative cash crop. Over 180 farmers of Nuagaon panchayat in Basudevpur block have joined hands and grown sunflowers over 700 acres this year. Officials said this is a record in the state.

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World + 2 others
Protecting the vulnerable during crisis and disaster: Part I

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World Bank

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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World + 12 others
2013 Annual Letter

Earlier this year, in the State of the Union address, President Obama called upon us to join the world in ending extreme poverty in the next two decades. It was an extraordinary moment, as the President set forth a vision for one of the greatest contributions to human progress in history.

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India - Bihar Kosi Flood Recovery Project: owner driven housing reconstruction

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World Bank, GFDRR

Overview

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).

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As fragile peace holds in Assam, displaced families contemplate return

21/03/2013 – In July 2012, clashes between Bengali Muslims and Bodos, an ethnic group in India’s northeastern State of Assam, displaced almost half a million people. Eight months on, families are slowly returning to the charred remains of their homes. But many still languish in camps, some due to fear of renewed violence, others because they lack the resources to jumpstart their lives.

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Sena corporators to donate one month's salary for drought relief

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Times of India

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

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Ethiopia + 5 others
Partners extend our impact around the world

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Mercy Corps

Jennifer Schmidt
Senior Development Officer

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. —Helen Keller

Given the magnitude and complexity of the poverty challenges that our global community faces, Helen Keller’s words couldn’t ring more true.

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Cambodia + 7 others
ACTED South/Southeast Asia Regional Strategy 2013-2015

ACTED launches South/Southeast Asia Regional Strategy 2013-2015

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India + 1 other
DFID’s Livelihoods Work in Western Odisha

This evaluation assesses the performance of DFID’s Western Orissa Livelihoods Project (WORLP) in India.

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Sri Lanka + 1 other
Sri Lanka: Transitioning from a humanitarian crisis to a human rights crisis

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InterAction

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.

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Philippines + 9 others
Asia-Pacific region 22 - 28 January, 2013 - Natural disasters and other events being monitored by the OCHA Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific

  1. Philippines - TC Bopha (Pablo) struck the southern Philippines in early December. The risk of floods and landslides due to heavy rains persists in typhoon-affected areas hampering humanitarian activities. The revised Action Plan was launched in Manila on 25 January asking for US$76 million. A low pressure area continues to affect areas in Mindanao causing flash floods and a landslide affecting nearly 40,000 people.
    Source: OCHA

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Snowfall takes heavy toll, Himachal struggles to restore normalcy

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Times of India

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.

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Myanmar + 30 others
Asia Pacific Humanitarian Bulletin Jan - Dec 2012

NATURAL DISASTERS IN 2012

After an intense year of natural disasters in 2011, countries in the Asia-Pacific region welcomed a reduction in the number of events in 2012. OCHA and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters recorded 93 natural disaster events in 2012, in which over 3,200 people were killed and more than 75 million people were affected. China and the Philippines experienced the most disasters in 2012.

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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India + 1 other
Livelihood training programmes promote self-sufficiency among Chin refugees

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.

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Viet Nam + 6 others
Habitat for Humanity rebuilds homes and lives of those affected by disasters in Asia-Pacific in 2012

“I now tell my classmates and friends that they should come to my house on rainy days because it will be safer. I love my house. I feel safe to live and study here,” said Kim Huyen, 10, reflecting on the new home she and her family moved in to in Quang Nam province, Vietnam, after years of living in makeshift homes fearing the next destructive typhoon.