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micro-credit activities arguably only provide some degree of social protection which is welfare-enhancing. This corresponding investment in a rough business plan has allowed livelihoods to be better achieved. To take the case of the rehabilitation of the worst affected livelihoods sector in Sri Lanka, fisheries, this evaluation as well as other studies 49 found that rehabilitation revolved primarily around the provision of boats and nets, which cater to the male-dominated aspects of fisheries – at the expense of assistance being provided to post-harvest production and ancillary activities, often undertaken by some of the most marginalised groups in the sector such as women, migrant workers, older people, and other socially excluded groups. In the case of small-scale fishermen, we see a restriction on their access rights to the sea (with the imposition of the buffer zone policy in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka), and a prevailing hostile macro-economic climate favouring more commercially viable deep-sea fishing activities – as seen in the District of Ampara (where it is supported by the ADB). This has left some of the poorest groups in the sector in a far more vulnerable state than prior to the tsunami. Another example of the difficulties confronting NGOs in this sector can be illustrated by the efforts undertaken to rehabilitate the traditional handloom industry in the district of Ampara, Sri Lanka. The fairly considerable foreign investment has consisted largely in the replacement of looms and material, giving little attention to product improvement and diversification. This improvement could be deemed to be necessary to enable the industry to tap into an existing but previously inaccessible high-end market for these products. However it was beyond the scope of this study, and of most NGO interventions in the rehabilitation phase, to assess the real potential for growth of the handloom industry in Sri Lanka. This points to a missing complementarity with broader economic recovery initiatives, driven by the private sector. Market research and the conversion of segments of the economy require long term involvement, and more breadth of expertise, of a kind which is simply not granted to NGOs which operate with funding of a maximum of two or three years’ horizon. As a result the evaluation found during the coastal field work quite a lot of evidence of too many people being trained in the same kinds of activity, and provided with economic assets, but with no adequate assessment of market demand having been done. At the same time the claims to investment in livelihoods by NGOs may have led to unrealistic expectations on the part of donors as well as of the local communities. 49 Fisheries-Based Livelihoods in the post-tsunami context, People’s Report: India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand; 2007 70
Yet the potential for change is created by the tsunami itself. As noted in the documentary review, in the Maldives a “significant number of households have changed their livelihoods after the tsunami” 50 . One of the factors that this can be attributed to is that there are still many families in the process of being relocated from transitional shelters to new houses on ‘safer’ islands. While their shelter and infrastructure needs are being catered to, the livelihood activities they have been pursuing for the last four years face disruption and re-adjustment during the relocation process. No organisations have emerged to support this transition in a comprehensive way. 3.7 Conclusion The evaluation finds that underneath the renewed economic development in the three affected countries after the tsunami, the actual targeting of the poorest groups by aid efforts has not been very strong. There has been extensive evidence of rapid asset replacement by relief actors, but generally NGOs have not been well equipped to deal with a complex local economy to achieve long term opportunities. As a consequence the state has become the main provider of support, while it is itself confronted with severe resource constraints. While many of the programmes have attempted to give fishermen the training and tools to fish, rather than just supply relief food, to coin an old adage, they have mostly failed to achieve sustainable local livelihoods. Larger industrial programmes have remained remote from the economy that is accessible to the broader population in tsunami affected areas. Had donor projects handled by NGOs been given a longer horizon than the one to three year timeframe commonly available for humanitarian work, one can reasonably assume that the LRRD would have been more effective in improving the livelihood security of tsunami affected households. There is a clear need here for larger scale programmes to undertake more detailed poverty analysis as well as generate the missing link between local livelihoods and national development. 50 UNDP et al., 2007, p.34 71
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