| UNDP
Indonesia - 28.02.2005
UNDP extends support to main Aceh hospital |
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| United
Nations - 28.02.2005
Two months after tsunami only some UN agencies
have received full funding |
Two months after a devastating tsunami wrought havoc
on a dozen Indian Ocean countries and sparked an unprecedented
outpouring of global relief aid, the United Nations
reported today that while some of its agencies have
received 100 per cent of their immediate flash appeal
requirements, others still remain under-funded.
Overall aid pledged so far from or through governments,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business and
private sources totals $6.28 billion, according to the
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA), which has overall responsibility for supervising
relief for the disaster. The deadly waves killed more
than 200,000 people and left up to 5 million more in
need of basic services. As far as the UN's own Flash
Appeal for the first six months after the 26 December
tsunami, governments have paid or committed themselves
to pay $721 million out of the $979 million sought.
(...)
Full
Story // UN
Flash Appeal
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| UNDP
Indonesia - 26.02.2005
Top UNDP official Hafiz Pasha visits Aceh |
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| UNEP
- 23.02.2005
Rebuild Differently After the Tsunami, UNEP Advises
- New Report Makes Recommendations on How to Reduce Vulnerability
to Future Coastal Hazards |
The destruction caused by the Asian tsunami to the environment
offers an opportunity to rebuild in a manner that preserves
natural resources for the benefit of the local communities
who were hardest hit by the disaster, a new report by
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says.
Vulnerability
mapping is urgently needed to pin point coastal sites
where homes, hotels, factories and other infrastructure
should be banned or restricted. Klaus Toepfer, UNEP’s
Executive Director, said: “The report underlines
the importance of managing the reconstruction in an
environmentally sensitive way. Buildings and other infrastructure
need to be built in less vulnerable areas and to standards
that will protect them and their inhabitants in the
event of future tsunamis. This makes sense not only
in respect to tsunamis but also with respect to storms
surges, floods, hurricanes and other extreme weather
events.” (...)
Full
Story // Full Report - Web
link - PDF
(8.95 MB)
More information: UNEP
Tsunami Website
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| UNDP
Maldives - 20.02.2005
UN Assistant Secretary General and Regional Director
of UNDP’s Regional Bureau of Asia and Pacific begins
his visit to the Maldives. |
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| UNDP
Indonesia - 18.02.2005
Survivors Return as UNDP Search and Rescue Teams
Leave |
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UNDP
- 17.02.2005
UNDP initiative to help match business donors
with tsunami recovery and reconstruction efforts
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Businesses that want to contribute to the tsunami reconstruction
effort can now target their assistance to where it is
most needed with a simple click: http://www.undp.org/cope/,
a new UNDP initiative. Through its website, the Corporate
Partnership in Emergencies (COPE) will make it easier
for businesses to contribute to tsunami recovery and
other emergency relief and reconstruction operations.
The initiative is part of UNDP's continuing effort to
forge new partnerships for development with the private
sector. The COPE site was set up by UNDP's Tsunami Task
Force, established to coordinate ground-level recovery
and reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the tsunami
that hit the Indian Ocean basin on December 26th 2004.
While many companies have already volunteered their
products and services to tsunami recovery activities,
the problem so far has been to match well-meaning contributions
with the places and people where they are needed. (...)
Full
Story //
More information: Corporate Partnership
in Emergencies (COPE) Website http://www.undp.org/cope/
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UNDP
Sri Lanka - 16.02.2005
UN Assistant Secretary-General Tours Tsunami
Countries to Move Recovery Effort Forward –
First Stop is Sri Lanka
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| Joint
Press Release by UNDP, ADB, UNDP and the World Bank -
15.02.2005
Maldives needs US$304 million for tsunami recovery
and reconstruction |
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| UN
OCHA - Banda Aceh - Indonesia - 09.02.2005
Report on UN Activities for the 1st Month After
the Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster |
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| UNDP
Maldives - 08.02.2005
Private sector to adopt islands in the Maldives
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| UNDP
Indonesia - 06.02.2005
Tsunami Waste Management Programme |
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| UNDP/BCPR
Disaster Reduction Unit, Geneva, Switzerland - 01.02.2005
UNDP provides loss and damage assessment methodologies
in Sri Lanka |
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is expanding
its programme of support to Banda Aceh’s Abidin
General Hospital to cover restoration of key water and
waste disposal facilities. For the last month, a team
of 400 workers employed under UNDP’s Cash for
Work programme, have been clearing out the hospital
building, which was left a meter deep in mud and debris
by the tsunami. Now workers will take on the task of
emptying the hospital’s damaged septic tanks of
tsunami mud, lowering the soil levels to improve drainage
and clearing out the sewage system. The decision to
extend the programme to cover the critical question
of water supply and disposal was announced by UN Assistant
Secretary General Dr Hafiz Pasha, on a visit to Aceh
last week. (...)
Assistant UN Secretary General and Director of the UNDP
Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific Dr Hafiz Pasha
arrived in Aceh on February 25th - 26th as part of his
tour of countries affected by the tsunami. He came to
see for himself the extent of the devastation and the
problems it caused, and to discuss how UNDP’s
contribution to the emergency response can be developed
in to long-term reconstruction. 
The United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Director
of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
Mr. Hafiz Pasha has today begun his three day visit
to the Maldives. Mr. Pasha is the UNDP chairperson for
the UNDP Tsunami Task Force and his visit to the Maldives
is part of a regional tour which spans the Tsunami affected
areas of Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand in addition
to the Maldives. During
his visit, Mr. Pasha will call on His Excellency President
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and meet with members of the National
Government Taskforce on Disaster Response, in addition
to other top ranking Government officials. Mr. Pasha
will also undertake a field visit to Meemu Atoll; Kolhufushi-
one of the worst affected islands and Naalaafushi- where
UNDP in partnership with Banyan Tree Maldives is supporting
the recovery effort. This partnership has been supporting
the affected communities of Naalaafushi helping restore
houses that were damaged by the Tsunami. (...)
After nearly two months of work, a team of 40 Indonesian
Search and Rescue volunteers supported by UNDP are preparing
to leave Banda Aceh. The team, which is composed of
Indonesian Search and Rescue professionals from across
the archipelago, began working in Aceh on December 28th.
Using UNDP-supplied heavy moving equipment such as diggers,
earth movers and dumper trucks, their work has consisted
of locating and removing bodies, clearing streets and
cleaning surviving houses in some of the most damaged
parts of Banda Aceh. In total in that time, they recovered
and removed over 10,000 bodies, and cleared an area
equivalent to ten villages. (...)
A top United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official
will make a two-week sweep through Asian countries hardest
hit by the tsunami to examine ways and means for moving
forward with the recovery effort. UN Assistant Secretary-General
and Director of the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and
the Pacific, Hafiz Pasha, begins his Asian trip in Sri
Lanka on Thursday, where he will travel to tsunami-devastated
coastal areas, and meet with senior government officials.
His regional tour, which will span Sri Lanka, the Maldives,
Indonesia and Thailand, includes consultations with
donor partners in the UK and Japan.
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The Maldives will need approximately US$304 million
to effectively implement a recovery and reconstruction
strategy, according to a preliminary tsunami disaster
needs assessment released today by the Asian Development
Bank (ADB), the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP), and the World Bank.
The assessment was prepared in close cooperation with
the Government of the Maldives and sets out clear guiding
principles for the reconstruction strategy. It estimates
total damages in the Maldives to be approximately US$470
million, which is close to 62 percent of GDP. Most of
the losses were concentrated in housing and tourism,
with education, fishing, and transport also heavily
affected. About US$120 million of external financing
will be required in the short term over the next six
months. (...)
This report on UN (plus IOM) activities during the first
month after the tsunami/earthquake in Indonesia. The
report is detailed and provides a clear overview of
what has been achieved, as well as what is planned.
It was produced primarily for the Government of Indonesia,
with a view to ensuring that we maintain transparency
and clarity in our efforts to support them in the immediate
response to the disaster.
Big businesses are readying to adopt small islands in
the Maldives through a pioneering effort aimed at helping
people affected by the tsunami to rebuild their homes.
The ADOPT AN ISLAND initiative was
officially launched in the Maldives today by the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at precisely 9:30
am: the exact time the gigantic tsunami devastated one-third
of the Maldives’ inhabited islands, just over
a month ago. The new initiative invites private donors
to ADOPT AN ISLAND and thereby directly
help one or more among the worst affected communities
to rebuild or repair their houses. In the Maldives,
the tsunami forced thousands of people from their homes
and, in some cases, their communities. Thirteen islands
had to be completely abandoned as all the buildings
and infrastructure were smashed and fresh water sources
contaminated by the sea.(...)
The destruction and damage caused by the tsunami has
generated large volumes of solid waste. When not properly
managed this waste can pose environmental hazards, serious
dangers to public health and delay the process of recovery
and rehabilitation. UNDP in close cooperation with the
Indonesian government will start appropriate waste management
and recycling initiatives for both the tsunami waste
and municipal garbage in Banda Aceh. A first pilot project
on tsunami waste recovery will start soon and will continue
during the transition, rehabilitation and recovery phases.
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With a number of casualties that has now reached 30’000,
the Government of Sri Lanka has opted for an initial
Rapid Assessment methodology to get an accurate idea
of the magnitude and distribution of the damages, which
are constrained to most coastal areas of the country.
The regional team of UNDP/BCPR (South and South West
Asia) has introduced the concept of systematic disaster
inventories using DesInventar methodology and software
tools. Concretely, the aim of the intervention in Sri
Lanka is to build a solid databank of disaster loss
and damage data at the national level, based on local
assessments, which can be used to guide and support
the recovery framework and to lay the foundation for
building, maintaining and institutionalizing disaster
loss databases (with historical and prospective database)
and analysis tools to facilitate decision making by
key national actors in disasters and development. (...)