Strengthening Resilience in Tsunami-Affected Communities of India and Sri Lanka : project final report (1st April 2009 – 31st October 2010)
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2011
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Regional Office for South Asia and China, IDRC, New Delhi, IN
Abstract
Various community level actions were taken, resulting in increased understanding of the links between environment, livelihoods and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). More than two dozen coastal villages benefitted from interventions. The project linked approaches to ecological rehabilitation, livelihood development, and access to information, responding to local needs and focusing on individual and community skills and existing expertise. Risk capacity and vulnerability assessments, if carried out at the beginning of the project, could have helped the project attain better results. Throughout this long-term rehabilitation project, attempts were made to build back lives of vulnerable survivors of prior disasters.
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Annex 2 is catalogued separately
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IDRC Final Report
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COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT, ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, CAPACITY BUILDING, RESILIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, SRI LANKA, INDIA, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, ACCESS TO INFORMATION