Relief Continues

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South Asia Earthquake Ground Zero October 8, 05
Relief Continues Recovery Begins Reconstruction
on Anvil
Ambassador Masood Khan Pakistans Permanent
Representative UNHCR Briefing 23 February 2006
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• Relief to be wind up,
• Recovery to start
• Shelter/winterized shelter provided
• 866,000 tents provided
• 388,000 temporary shelters constructed.
• 247,000 constructed by Pakistan military.
• 3.1M CGI sheets distributed
• Over 6M blankets distributed
• Overall camp management situation satisfactory
• Mass immunization campaign continues target
  population 5,000
• Education 400,000 school children were enrolled
  in 893 schools
• Teacher training program for Master Trainers and
  Teachers

REUTERS/Thierry Roge
Kashmiri earthquake survivors unload relief goods
in the Neelum Valley, February 21, 2006. More
than two million people still living in tents or
crude shelters patched together from ruined
homes.
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• Relief Priorities
• Health surveillance
• Water and sanitation
• Education
• A sound return strategy
• Synergy between GOP and Sustainable Return Task
  Force created by heads of clusters.
• Managing the transition

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• GOPs Efforts
• Set to start reconstruction and rehabilitation at
  cost of 80B Rupees
• Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
  Authority (ERRA) preparing comprehensive plan for
  resettlement
• Focus Housing restoration of health and
  education facilities construction of
  infrastructure
• Incentives being given to businesses in quake
  affected areas in NWFP and AJK. Soft loans to
  build commercial enterprises

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• HOUSING
• Removal of debris from roads, streets, hospitals,
  schools, offices intensified
• Will now clear collapsed buildings
• RS 25,000 paid to affectees
• RS 75,000 to be paid in early March to be
  followed by RS 25,000 and RS 50,000 after survey
  by designated officers
• Surveys to establish designs in accordance with
  building codes
• Sponsorship offers
• Reconstruction of shock resistant settlements to
  start in March
• NGOs to help in awareness creation and in
  technical expertise about quake proof houses.
• ERRA has received seismic surveys from Norwegian,
  Chinese and Turkish teams.
• 2,000 vehicles required to transport building
  materials to hubs near quake hit rural areas.

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Solidarity is there

• We are thankful to the international community.
• November 2005 donors conference was successful.
• Pledges 6.2 billion
• We need to convert pledges to actual money to
  start and sustain work on reconstruction

AFP/File/Eric Feferberg
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• UNHCR
• Commendable job in supporting GOP, communities
• Handling camp management cluster in 144 relief
  camps- planned (26) and spontaneous (118) housing
  more than 140,000 people
• Substantial contribution to community services,
  relocation, emergency planning, registration.
• Helped with improvised schools in camps
  established by UNICEF and Save the Children
• Camps should begin to close by end March
• Manage transition

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• UNHCR
• Looking ahead (beyond March)
• A well managed disengagement plan cooperation
  between local authorities and UNHCR
• Return in a voluntary and dignified manner
• Damage and Needs assessment
• Taking care of the vulnerable women, children,
  elderly
• Training and secondments

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• TRANSPARENCY
• Every penny for relief and rehabilitation will be
  accounted for. MNCs, international organizations,
  philanthropists, and individuals can monitor.

REUTERS/Thierry Roge
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• Lessons Learned
• Assess needs
• Work with communities ensure good communication
  with them and facilitate their participation in
  disaster response and decision-making.
• Mobilize indigenous genius. Rely on local
  resources and materials
• Target efficiently geographical (areas hit
  hardest) community (respecting local norms) the
  vulnerable and the disabled
• Monitor
• Relocate and rehabilitate fast from temporary to
  permanent housing from relief money to
  livelihood generation
• Give psycho-social support
• Link relief, recovery, rehabilitation and
  reconstruction
• Keep the world informed

REUTERS/Thierry Roge
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Thank you UNHCR
REUTERS/Mian Khursheed