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2. Abstract:
Starting on 26 December 2010,
Batticaloa was struck by the heaviest rains in almost one hundred years,
causing devastating northeast monsoon floods in 14 Divisional Secretariat
Areas. The flood damage is incurred to homes, infrastructure, schools, water
supply, and sanitation systems, among other. The most recent floods are preceded
by intense rainfall which had already put many of the conflict-affected
returnees at risk.
At the district level, UNDP has been
playing an increasingly important role in Early Recovery/Recovery coordination
and programming. Early Recovery (ER) is understood as a multidimensional
recovery process that begins in the humanitarian setting, and encompasses the
restoration of basic services, livelihoods, shelter, governance, security and
the rule of law, environment and social dimensions including the reintegration
of displaced populations.
The main problem is how to
coordinate effectively among government institutions, nongovernment institutions,s
and communities to setback the community who were affected in the recent monsoon
flood in the resettlement divisional secretariats division.
So that the paper argues on what strategies are used to overcome the duplication and overlap in the livelihood
early recovery assistants through using tools such as available secondary data,
interviews, and UN repots for the analysis of the gap in the divisions.
The
main objectives
1. To Ensure the effective data
collection, analysis, finding the needs and gap, updating the analyzed data and
disseminate to the all other partners.
To organize the coordination meeting
in with different partners.
To collect the data systematically
and develop the livelihood matrix and updating.
To map the livelihood needs, gap and
responses.
2. To
ensure the early recovery of the flood affected people in the district.
Early recovery activities bordering
on humanitarian activities such as quick impact income generation, alternative
livelihood development, indigenous product development, community empowerment
and social cohesion. The nature of this intervention will be by default labour
intensive, requiring limited inputs that can be found locally.
1. Ensure the clusters integration and
quick response through create the well coordination mechanism.
Cluster coordination method.
District wise coordination methods
Divisional level coordination
system.
Keywords:heaviest rains, devastating, incurred,
infrastructure, intense rainfall, conflict-affected, Early Recovery (ER),
multidimensional, humanitarian setting, encompasses, reintegration.
Finding of the Research: The research focused on how to
efficiently setting up the coordination mechanism to overcome the problem faced
by flood affected people and improve their life with effective system in early
recovery (livelihood).
Introduction:Early recovery is recovery that
begins in the post-disaster response or humanitarian relief setting,
immediately following a natural disaster or armed conflict. The shared aims of
relief efforts and early recovery are clear; both early recovery and relief
efforts aim to generate self-sustaining, nationally-owned processes to
stabilize human security and address underlying risks that contributed to the
crisis. Necessarily therefore, early recovery includes activities that will
repair, rebuild and strengthen governance, livelihoods, shelter, environment
and social dimensions, including the reintegration of displaced populations.
The temporarily mechanism for the
quick recovery which follows by both government and non government organization
failed in previous years. In addition those who were responsible to recovery
overlapped in many areas where there was no proper coordination strategies
draft by them. Though, these lack of coordination is not given a proper result
which increase the level of vulnerability among the people.
The main objective of this paper to
ensure the effective early recovery to response the right vulnerable people to
reduce the duplication with their real needs for the flood affected people in
the district through using the coordination methods as explained above as the
key objectives.
Once the following livelihood and
income recovery activities and the coordination strategy will implement the key
objectives will be achieved.
Livelihood
and income recovery
- Undertake
rapid impact, needs and capacity assessments focused on local economic
resources and livelihood opportunities including labour market surveys and
analysis
- Carry
out pre-disaster agriculture and environment situation mapping and provide
pre-disaster maps on rural economic activity
- Provide
geospatial support for updating household surveys: change detection,
qualification and quantification
- Preventive
and responsive measures in collaboration with communities, authorities and
other relevant actors; and provide cash grants and emergency social
protection schemes for these groups and those who cannot work
- Establish
and conduct capacity building of Emergency Employment Service Centers
- Design
and implementation of emergency employment schemes (e.g. rubble clearance,
rehabilitation of community infrastructure)
- Promote
micro and small enterprise recovery through short-cycle
business-management training, cash grants, access to microfinance schemes
and coaching
- Restore
and reinstate remittance facilities
- Provide and repair fishing boats and
fishing equipment
- Restore damaged crops and distribute seeds,
seed vouchers, fertilizers, hand tools, provide credit to traders, and
promote improved land management techniques, to prevent soil erosion and
exhaustion as well as promoting diversification of food crops to improve
nutrition, and cash crops to increase bio diversity and incomes
- Repair flood control and irrigation schemes
- Protect and rehabilitate productive assets
(fodder production, animal health, management of natural resources)
- Provide support to horticulture, home or school
gardens, or re-establishment of orchards
- Assess the use of natural resources as coping mechanisms in post-crisis situations to supplement normal forms of income, and recommend measures for sustainable management of resources, for reduced reliance on natural resources for income and for rehabilitating impacted areas
- Coordination
strategy: Assess the capacity of district and local
authorities to lead and coordinate early recovery efforts
- Strengthen local governance capacity to plan and
manage the recovery effort, including facilitation of early recovery
prioritization meetings at district and divisional levels
- Support district authority coordination and
advocacy for early recovery, with an emphasis on basic service delivery
Establish effective and
participative early recovery coordination mechanism to support district efforts
- Support coordinated early recovery needs
assessment, and advocate for early recovery issues to
be taken into account in other needs
assessments by national and international humanitarian and
development actors.
- Support the establishment of monitoring and
evaluation systems for early recovery activities
- Support early recovery resource mobilization
efforts and the tracking of donor assistance
Methodology:Based on the paper, secondary as
well primary sources are using to achieve the objectives. Under the secondary
source the UNOCHA publication, government publications, district wise early
recovery reports, monthly flood recovery reports, post-flood assessment
reports, district livelihood matrices and maps have selected for analyze the
problem to achieve the objectives as well as the primary sources which included
participant and non-participant observation method and questionnaire also
have used to analyze this paper.
Results
and Discussion: An early recovery coordination strategy should display
some or all of the following results:
· It
identifies the real needs, available capacity of the agencies, and gap of the
response and reduces the duplication and overlap of the recovery assistants.
· It
builds on emergency assistance programmes to ensure that their inputs become
assets for longer-term recovery and development.
· It
supports local initiatives to revive livelihoods, through for example
agricultural restoration.
· It
addresses the underlying causes of the crisis.
· It
builds the necessary foundation required for managing the recovery effort, for
example, by rapid restoration of lost capacity at the local government level in
the crisis affected area.
· It
strengthens existing capacities of local authorities to manage/coordinate
crises, for example, through training programmes on local governance
responsibilities.
· It
strengthens district capacities to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of
the people and promotes legal, institutional, and policy changes that can have
a quick impact on the performance of local authorities and communities – by
filling resource, authority and responsibility gaps, for example.
· It
strengthens the immediate or basic capacities of communities to cope with the
crisis, for example, through training of affected populations on construction
techniques that would allow them to reduce the risk of further loss from
disasters.
· It
focuses on activities that prepare for the return of displaced communities, for
example, repair of minor infrastructure such as small feeder roads and bridges
to permit access to markets and access to abandoned housing or farming plots
abandoned as a result of the crisis.
· It
focuses on providing services for returning communities, such as water and
sanitation, education, health, etc.
· It
mainstreams peace-building and reconciliation activities, through for example,
facilitation of dialogue among communities and reintegrating populations.
· It
links into local-level early recovery coordination mechanisms, which are
supported by a strong interagency coordination mechanism for agencies
supporting service provision at the local level, with a clear allocation of
roles and responsibilities.
· It
utilizes inter-cluster coordination and interdependence of elements according
to the partners’ mandates.
Conclusions: After 26 December 2010, Batticaloa
was struck by the heaviest rains causing devastating north east monsoon floods
in 14 Divisional Secretariat Areas. Most of the people in Batticaloa are
depending on the agriculture, home gardening, field crop, livestock and high
land vegetable cultivation for their income generation. Even though, the
destruction of houses, agricultural land, livestock, livelihood assets, market
places and other infrastructure as a result of the floods is having a dramatic
impact on households’ ability to generate food and income. Preliminary
estimates reveal that the floods inundated and damaged 50 000 acres of
Agricultural land in Batticaloa.
Particularly the floods have led to
widespread crop losses in the affected areas and investments towards the
Maha season cultivation are largely nullified. Assessment confirms a
100% loss of paddy and other field crops planted in Batticaloa affecting
nearly 15,000 households. Communities will feel the long-term effects of the
floods in destroyed livelihoods and heightened food insecurity, unless they
receive adequate support to recover. Apart from destroyed livelihoods and
heightened food insecurity, unless they receive adequate support to recover.
Apart from farming families, fisher folk and casual labourers are also
vulnerable to the economic devastation of the floods.
Based on the crisis situation, the
effective coordination strategies support to find the result through obtain the
objectives to bring back the affected communities by the flood.
The field research presented in this
report was made possible by the co-operation of many people, including those
involved in the recovery field, people in the field also planning unit of
Kachery. The staffs with whom this research was conducted spent a large amount
of time answering our question, brodning our understanding of on-the-ground
situation and discussing their problem.
Although many people were involved
in conducting the field research and in gathering information from various
sources, I am solely responsible for the analysis presented herein and for any
error, omissions or inconsistencies in the report.
As my recommendation, to improve the
life of affected people, the inclusiveness and effective participation
respectively should be developed in the coordination mechanism.
The coordination must well plan and
ensure to recover the loses on right time and right people.
The coordination strategy should be
develop on priority base such as providing basic needs, housing, resettlement,
livelihood, infrastructure and etc.
The mechanism should be consider the
follow up and monitoring process to ensure the sustainability in the long term
development.
References:
1. Cluster Working group
on early recovery, in cooperation with the UNDG-ECHA Working Group on
Transition, http://www.humanitarianreform.org/humanitarianreform/Portals/1/cluster%20approach%20page/clusters%20pages/Early%20R/ER_Internet.pdf
2. UNDP Policy on early
recovery, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery , February, 2008, http://www.undp.org/cpr/iasc/content/docs/TBWMarch08/Doc1.pdf
3. IASC, Implementing
Early Recovery, July -2006, Cluster Working Group on Early
Recovery,
http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/recovery/Implementing%20Early%20Recovery.pdf
4. Cluster Working group
on early recovery Donor Proposal 2010/11, http://oneresponse.info/GlobalClusters/Early%20Recovery/publicdocuments/CWGER%20donor%20proposal_final.pdf
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