Cyclone Giri - Two Years On - Burma Action Ireland

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373 “Giri Victims Suffer as Army Confiscates Their Common Creek”, Narinjara, 31 Aug. 2011, http://bnionline.net/
news/narinjara/11533-giri-victims-suffer-as-army-confiscates-their-common-creek.html accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
374 Financial Tracking Service, OCHA, http://fts.unocha.org/reports/daily/ocha_R10_E15896_asof___1112280204.pdf
accessed on 6 Dec. 2011.
375 “Villagers Hit Hardest by Cyclone Giri Face Starvation”, Narinjara, 17 June 2011,
http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/10978-villagers-hit-hardest-by-cyclone-giri-face-starvation.html
accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
376 Cyclone Giri: An Unforgettable Experience for Victim, BNI, 6 Sept. 2011,
http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/feature/narinjara/11576-cyclone-giri-an-unforgettable-experience-for-victim-
.html accessed on 25 Oct. 2011; “Famine in Much of the Cyclone-Giri Affected Area of Arakan”, BNI, 12 Aug.
2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/11375-famine-in-much-of-the-cyclone-giri-affected-areaof-arakan.html
accessed on 23 Oct. 2011.
377 Primary research by GRC field workers.
378 See subsection “Torrential Rains and Flooding”.
379 Kyaw Kha, “Seven townships in Arakan State flooded by record heavy rain”, Mizzima, 22 July 2011, http://
www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/5650-seven-townships-in-arakan-state-flooded-by-record-heavy-rain.html
accessed on 11 Nov. 2011.
380 “Famine in Much of the Cyclone-Giri Affected Area of Arakan”, BNI, 12 Aug. 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/
index.php/news/narinjara/11375-famine-in-much-of-the-cyclone-giri-affected-area-of-arakan.html accessed on 23
Oct. 2011.
381 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw
of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/
ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
382 Kerren Hedlund, “Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity - Learning from previous relief
and recovery responses”, ALNAP, http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/ALNAP-ProVention_lessons_on_slowonset_disasters.pdf
accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
383 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw
of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/
ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
384 Ibid.
385 “Rice Prices Increase Following Giri”, The Irrawaddy, 3 Nov. 2010, http://www.irrawaddy.org/
article.phpart_id=19936 accessed on 5 Nov. 2011.
386 Ben Ramalingam and Sara Pavanello, “Cyclone Nargis: Lessons for Operational Agencies”, ALNAP, http://
www.alnap.org/pool/files/ALNAPLessonsCycloneNargis.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011.
387 Maung Aye, “Increasing Rice Prices in Cyclone-Affected Areas Hurt Victims’ Survival”, Narinjara, 5 Mar. 2011,
http://www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=2944 accessed on 9 Nov. 2011; see also “Rice Prices Rising on Rumor of
New Banknote”, The Irrawaddy, 25 Feb. 2011, http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.phpart_id=20832 accessed on 9
Nov. 2011.
388 “Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw
of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability”, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/
documents/ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011.
389 The WFP Quarterly Market and Food Price Updates which monitor the food prices and wages http://
documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp241226.pdf; accessed on 9 Nov. 2011; http://
documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp241682.pdf; accessed on 9 Nov. 2011.
390 Primarily at the end of January 2011 WFP stopped the food assistance when all clusters wound down at the end of
the emergency phase. However, according to the WFP 6 month report (21 Apr. 2011), they still used food for work
programmes for the rebuilding of embankments, ponds and roads etc. Per this report (see Subsection “One Year On:
An Overview”) 18,450 beneficiaries directly participated in the Food For Work projects. They and their families,
totaling 92,250 people, received food rations until May 2011. (WFP used the end of May 2011 as the end of the
early recovery phase /start of the long term recovery/rehabilitation phase.)
391 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw
of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/
ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
392 Ibid.
393 “Torrential Rains Ravage Arakan’s Gwa Township for the Third Time”, Narinjara, 10 Aug. 2011, http://
www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=3044 accessed on 24 Oct. 2011; “Villagers Hit Hardest by Cyclone Giri Face
Starvation”, Narinjara, 17 June 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/10978-villagers-hithardest-by-cyclone-giri-face-starvation.html
accessed on 24 Oct. 2011.
394 The total rice acreage is 20.43 million acres (8,267,728 ha): 17.27 million acres (6,988,921 ha) of monsoon
paddy and 3.16 million acres (1,278,806 ha) of summer paddy. “Burmese rice production to fall due to untimely
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