a previous request for help from members of this list proved somewhat
helpful, so here i go again...
in trying to complete a simulation of the effects of recurrent disasters
and mitigation and recovery policies in disaster-prone rural communities
of southeast asia and the pacific islands, i have come upon a few
questions that beg the opinion of experts. thus, i hope that some of you
experts out there in email-land will offer some assistance.
first, i have assumed that communities that are exceptionally prone to
natural disasters (e.g., the bicol region of the philippines) are in a
constant state of each of the stages of the "disaster continuum". thus,
in this extreme situation, recovery measures that incorporate mitigation
provisions seem essential. within this scenario, the following questions
have popped up:
1) if you were to choose 1 or 2 mitigation investment procedures that you
would consider most likely to be beneficial to such a community (prone to
destruction every 1-5 years), what would it/they be? [note: relocation and
land use planning are not options here; looking for specific investments
in some sort of infrastructure]
2) what % of money invested in this measure would you assume to be saved
through vulnerability reduction in the 1st year? 2nd year? what is the
expected time duration of such reduction (in years or months)?
3) if funding for this project is coming from the federal government, what
% of such funding do you think will actually be used towards completion of
the project (vs. % lost to corruption and other "leakages")? if funding
is from NGOs?
[note: the impetus for this question is the incorporation of food-for-work
and similar schemes as part of the combined recovery/mitigation effort; so
a more direct question may be - what percentage of FFW money allocated by
the government and/or NGOs in the area would make it to the project at
hand?]
4) what other issues might need to be considered in this specific
scenario?
any help with any of these questions will be sincerely appreciated.
hopefully,
bob alexander
East-West Center/
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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