G'day everyone
Some of you will know of course that the Indonesian Government's 'Master
Plan for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for the Regions and People of the
Province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Nias Islands of the Province of
North Sumatra' has recently been released.
This can be seen on the website www.e-aceh.org There is an overall summary
(In Indonesian and English), which is most interesting, together with the
following separate sections (called 'Books'), which are currently just in
Bahasa Indonesian at the monent, but are apparently being translated into
English.
Book 1: Spatial Planning and Land Policy
2: Environment & Natural Resources
3: Infrastructure and Shelter
4: Economy and Labour
5: Institutional Development
6: Health & Education
7: Religious, Social and Cultural Issues
8: Legal & Judicial Institutions
9: Security, Public Order & Resilience
10: Accountability & Fiduciary Safeguards
11. Financing and Management of Funds
I would presume that the Sri Lankan (thru' TAFREN ?), Indian and Thai
governments have similar plans either underway or in the pipeline, but I'm
not not tracking these so closely....
The key issue I think arising from this is that the international donors,
whether they be bilateral, multilateral or large NGOs ideally need to work
on their post-tsunami recovery/ rehabilitation/reconstruction strategies
within this national government framework !!
Cheers
Chris Piper ([log in to unmask])
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From: "Robert E Alexander" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: tsunami recovery workshop participants request assistance
Similar to a recent event at MIT that focused upon physical processes
for recovery from the recent tsunami, the Peace and Conflict
Resolution Workgroup (with co-sponsorship by the East-West Center)
recently conducted a workshop focusing upon social processes for risk
reduction for tsunami-affected people (and, by analogy, for other
vulnerable people in areas of human insecurity).
After presentation of a common framework for analysis that I’ve
synthesized from Cernea’s IRR Model, the *At Risk* Pressure and
Release Model, and the Sustainable Livelihoods Model and then some
presentations by invited guests regarding pre-existing and post-
tsunami conditions of particular groups in particular areas, 4 groups
of graduate student workshop participants were self-selected to work
towards creation of projects and presentations that adhere to this
framework for risk reduction according to the following
process/condition categories and parameters:
Settlement Processes (towards a condition of improved “home”
conditions):
 # of displaced people (before and after this event)
 housing damage (relative to the pre-existing state of houses)
 property law & other legal thrusts/impediments towards secure
homes
 capacity building for local return and reconstruction
 conditions for domicile people (e.g., access to utilities and
communication)
Livelihood Processes (towards enabling those who can protect
themselves to do so):
 what are normal baseline household food production, other
production, income (both in goods and currency), and expenditures –
how affected by tsunami?
 what access to natural resources, level of human know-how
(educational attainment), level of financial resources
owned/available, level of physical capital there/lost/rebuilt, access
to common property resources (e..g, transportation, common buildings,
cooperatives), nature of social networks and trading patterns?
 what coping mechanisms are used? How much do these reduce
risks?
 What livelihood/food assistance available (before/after)?
Social Payments/Services Processes (towards allowing social protection
both temporarily [for those who can not yet self-protect] and
permanently [for those who will remain unable to self-protect]):
 what access to health services?
 what access to education?
 what access to social security, pensions, unemployment and
other payments/services for the most vulnerable groups (e.g., widowed,
orphans, elderly)?
Socio-Cultural and Psychological Processes (towards enabling the
rebuilding of social capital towards self-protection and psychological
and cultural healing for improved feelings of social, cultural,
physical, and psychological security for all groups):
 status of civil society development (what local NGOs, what do
they do, how ineract with municipal/local government)
 status of physical security (e.g., reliability of policing
services)
 status of political and legal representation
 status of integration of communities as cohesive unit – what
is their normal social network? (e.g., family, community, ?)
 status of representative important cultural items/dates in
providing psychological security to individuals/communities
 Availability and effectiveness of personal and group
psychological counseling/activities to improve welfare
As the plans are to be completed and presented by this coming Sunday
(April 24th) but participants are still seeking more information to
help them with plan development, I’ve offered to request assistance
from people “out there” who might be able to fill in some blanks –
and, thus, I ask you now. Specifically, they are seeking information
(whether directly or via referenced websites) that would help groups
with the following topics:
* A risk reduction plan for children in Aceh and Nias
* A risk reduction plan for Kalmunai division, Ampara district, Sri
Lanka
* A plan for improvement of international assistance for vulnerable
people in tsunami-affected areas
* A plan for promotion and protection of human rights in tsunami
recovery operations
while that may be quite a mouthful to swallow, any information that
might help them would certainly be appreciated – and can be sent
directly to the email account created for such resources for them at
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hopefully and gratefully,
bob alexander
"The end of all education should surely be service to others." Cesar
Chavez
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