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(3) Shelter and
Infrastructure
(4) Governance
and Capacity
Building
• The recruitment of local facilitators
who were able to win
the trust of affected communities
was a significant contributing
factor in overcoming the
challenges of temporary shelter.
• Support in the area of emergency
shelter, while not a usual
area of UNDP support, helped
to gain access to target IDP
communities and to better
formulate recovery strategies.
• Strong community participation
through UN-Habitat CAP
process has resulted in high
degree of ownership amongst
target populations.
• Early on-the-ground support
for emergency coordination
and reconstruction planning
provided a good base for subsequent
shift towards promoting
good governance in the reconstruction
process, as well
as in public administration
Area Success Factors Challenges
ners to gain access to affected
communities and formulate
tracting of livelihoods activities.
stronger sustainable livelihoods
recovery activities. be able to quickly identify pri-
• A major difficulty has been to
• A non-sectoral, communitydriven
approach is preferable
to strict sectoral work (fisheries,
agriculture, etc.), in order
to ensure assistance can flexibly
respond to the varied
needs of communities.
ority beneficiaries and implement
a targeted programme to
meet their needs. By working
closely with the community
and government agencies it is
possible to ensure those sections
of the community who
• Operating through experienced
national and interna-
targeted assistance.
are missing out are receiving
tional NGOs has significantly
expanded the outreach capacity
of the ERTR programme in
order to do adequate assessments
of livelihoods recovery
needs.
• Understanding the short term
labour market needs and then
ascertaining the longer term
labour market needs; the construction
boom will create new
employment opportunities, but
over time however we must be
able to retrain and recapitalise
the workforce as the reconstruction
boom declines.
• Great uncertainty amongst
IDPs about the future, coupled
with a fear that temporary
re-location may become permanent,
generated reluctance
amongst many affected people
to re-locate to temporary shelters.
• Early focus on supply-side issues
is necessary.
• Inflation and material price
increases has meant replanning
of resources and reducing
coverage of the housing
reconstruction programme.
• Need to balance need to deliver
with community-based
participatory approached to
ensure community ownership.
• Society cohesion in rural and
urban areas vary and hence
more time and resources are
needed for participatory planning
processes in urban areas
where social cohesion is lower.
• Need to deliver on reconstruction
planning on tight time
frames can reduce focus on
importance of consultation
and participation.
• Early confusion on roles and
responsibilities within Government
for rehabilitation /
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