Long-Term Recovery of Tsunami-Affected Villages
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By Arpita Chhatrapati - Project leader, January 18, 2008 04:04 PM
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Latest Update from the Field--August 16, 2007
By Arpita Chhatrapati - , August 16, 2007 03:40 PM
Thank you for your support! Please find below an update from our project!
Activities and Outcomes
AIDMI has provided financial support for Regional Workshop on Community – Based Disaster Management organized at Colombo, Sri Lanka on July 30 and 31, 2007 in collaboration with other partner organisations. The overall objective of the workshop was to initiate an appropriate community based disaster management modality in the form of guidelines to initiate large scale disaster-development initiatives at the community level.
Livelihood Relief and Promoting the Use of Micro Finance for Long Term Recovery:
As an action learning organization, AIDMI extended its resources towards the application of disaster risk reduction by innovative initiatives and methods in the context of international humanitarian development and action. Micro Credit and Micro Insurance are two such tools, which help to reduce the disaster risk.
The micro credit program in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu is another step to charge up the women enterprises and other self-help groups to initiate their livelihoods in due course. On the basis of demand, AIDMI has provided micro credit to 373 families of Tamil Nadu. This micro credit helps them to either expand their small-scale business or they can utilise it for recovery measures.
Up-Scaling the Application of School Safety Initiatives:
Besides the school safety related activities as mentioned above, AIDMI also provided infrastructure support to two schools as per their demand. One school didn’t have the drinking water facility as well as kitchen roof need to be repaired. AIDMI has provided financial support for construction of water tank and for kitchen roof. While another school had received new building but it was without any electrical fitting and the hand pump was also of no use resulting in problem of drinking water for the children. With the AIDMI support, the school got fans, tube lights and electric meter installed in the school and also provided the drinking water facility.
Progress report on AIDMI's current activities
By Arpita Chhatrapati - Project Leader, April 19, 2007 06:48 PM
Context
As part of its long-term recovery efforts for the tsunami affected poor victims, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) is currently working in Villupuram, Cuddalore, Nagapattinum, and Chennail districts of Tamil Nadu. AIDMI had experienced that there was still a need for disaster preparedness and disaster risk reduction for the communities in the tsunami affected areas of Tamil Nadu and thus is putting efforts for the same.
Activities and Outcomes
Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction:
The demand for disaster preparedness was met through various trainings, workshops, national events, and various awareness materials during the year 2006-2007.
One such event was organised during October 15-21, 2006 in Sri Lanka. This course entitled ‘Disaster Risk Reduction and Transfer in Tsunami Recovery’ was developed by AIDMI on request of Kindernothlife, Sri Lanka and was designed for familiarising the individuals working in disaster-prone and disaster-affected areas with different components of disaster management and providing them with various tools and methodologies that would help enhance their work.
Also, a one and half day (November 23-24, 2006) Regional Consultation on Engendering Disaster Management followed by a five day (November 24-28, 2006) Training of Trainers Regional Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction and Risk Transfer in Recovery was organised in Islamabad. The workshop had a multi-hazard risk reduction approach and was attended by participants from Sri Lanka as well as Pakistan.
Another event was organised during November 29-30, 2006–India Disaster Management Congress. It was a platform where researchers and practitioners across disciplines and sectors presented their research papers; and debated on the issues, shortcomings, challenges, and opportunities. The event was divided into six thematic clusters and each cluster had a range of two to six thematic sessions. One such cluster was Development, Governance, and Cross Cutting Issues, in which there were six thematic sessions. AIDMI team participated and presented their views in these sessions.
AIDMI has also published various awareness material related to tsunami recovery work in the form of newsletters, Experience Learning Series, Pocket Book Series, GIS booklets and so on.
Livelihood Relief and Promoting the Use of Micro Finance for Long Term Recovery:
AIDMI has been working with a local micro-finance organisation for providing livelihood support. This organisation came with a demand of livelihood support for its members affected by tsunami. These self-employed and poor women members were earning their livelihoods through sewing work, selling vegetables, selling provision items, selling sarees, selling dry fish, small home based shops and so on. They had restarted their livelihoods few months after tsunami but they did not have enough stock to earn as they were earning earlier. Thus, their needs were assessed and the needed items were provided to them through AIDMI’s existing Livelihood Relief Fund. This helped them recover faster.
Also, another local organisation has a training center in Cuddalore district. They conduct different types of skill based livelihood related trainings for the tsunami affected victims. These trainings are related to mechanical work, electrical work, tailoring work, and handicraft work. These victims needed tools and equipments to carry out the above activities after they had taken the training. They requested AIDMI to support them to provide such tools and equipments. 200 such victims had completed training and their assessment was done by AIDMI and the tools and equipments were provided.
There was a need for financial and technical support also to such local organizations for setting up demonstration projects on micro insurance in the tsunami affected areas. The objective was local level recovery and empowerment of self employed especially women. This micro insurance activity has been started for totally 784 tsunami affected beneficiaries. Around 35 beneficiaries who have been covered suffered damage and loss due to floods in October end. They intimated about the same to AIDMI and the process for their claim settlement is in process. The entire work carried out under micro insurance has also been reviewed by an external expert in January 2007 to know the impact of the work, to measure the recovery of the beneficairies, and to find out the further needs.
Up-Scaling the Application of School Safety Initiatives:
The application of school safety initiatives in tsunami affected communities was to prepare basis for launching national campaign on school safety. This includes trainings, fire safety instruments installation and demonstration, and insurance of students and teachers. The live demonstration and installation of fire extinguishers have been done in 30 tsunami affected schools. At the same time the insurance policy of the schools and the first aid kits were also distributed to the schools. School safety trainings have also been provided to the school teachers and administrators to make them aware and prepared against future disaster. Display material related to school safety have also been distributed in all the schools.
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