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enterprise members located throughout the country. The earthquake also occurred at a timewhen, because of a rising oil price, the government was financially better able to mount avigorous response than it would have been a few years previously.Within the context of the vigorous and well-funded government programmes adoptedin response to the earthquake, the actions of the social partners can be summarized asfollows:3.3.1. Emergency periodCGEOAUGTA• Call for its members to make a contribution.• Resulting grant of 14 cargos of food supplies.• Loan of vehicles and other equipment by its members for cleanup operations.• Responsibility assumed for the restoration of 28 sites that were only slightly affected.• Support in cash and kind for 60 private enterprises which had lost production units inthe affected area.• Activation of trade union solidarity committees in all districts of the country.• Call for contributions from member unions and individual workers.• Establishment of a national site for receiving, sorting and distributing donatedmaterials.• Assume responsibility for 17 sites providing assistance to victims, covering a total of200 families.• Financial contributions estimated at between 11 and 12 million US$.• Psychosocial support for children and other victims of trauma.• Support through the Commission nationale des femmes travailleuses (CNFT) ofwomen, children and persons with disabilities having lost family members.• Call for international aid that led to the shipment of tons of materiel and goods as wellas financial support.3.3.2. Reconstruction PeriodCGEOAUGTA• A project was designed for the creation of a zone hosting about 150-200 small andmicro-enterprises established by unemployed young people from the affected area. TheCGEOA’s members were to provide material support and mentoring for the youngentrepreneurs. However, the project was not brought to fruition.• Fourteen member companies participated in the government’s reconstructionprogramme.• 500 of the poorest among the young victims were recruited for a period of four monthsto work on the preparation of survival kits.• A pilot construction project was started aimed at building 500 earthquake-resistantdwellings and stimulating the local economy. A call for workers to contribute oneday’s wages to a solidarity fund generated sufficient resources for the construction ofanother 500-750 housing units.In conclusion, it can be said that the two organizations’ contributions were similar inform: rescue operations, assistance, requests for contributions, activation of their networks.For both, the contribution to relief operations was more substantial than to reconstruction.And in both cases the activities were primarily “supply-driven”. Perhaps the most positiveoutcome was that, thanks to a change in the government’s attitude toward the social33