Rebuilding Community Infrastructure
& Shelter Project - UNDP Funded
Funded by: UNDP; US $ 766,810
Locations:
Objectives
This Project aims to re-establish self sustaining communities
for a group of families affected by the tsunami, through the
building of physical and social infrastructure and housing as
speedily as possible and to assist in returning to a normal
life, enabling them to recover from the trauma of the tsunami.
As important as the reconstruction is the social recovery of
affected communities. This will be done with support to mobilize
and org anise the communities, so the affected people set their
own reconstruction priorities as well as establishing community
governance structures. In addition their livelihoods will be
regenerated through the direct investment of the assistance
packages within the communities creating local employment and
opportunities for entrepreneurship. Therefore the project will
be implemented on the general theme of ‘Restoration of
Homes and Livelihoods and Rebuilding of Communities’.
The specific project objectives include:
- To enable selected traumatized communities in Moratuwa area,
in the Colombo district, in particular women and children,
rebuild their social capital through the organization of representative
bodies with the capacity to take decisions regarding their
own rebuilding process;
- To enable 100 families rebuild essential physical facilities
including shelter and infrastructure so that they can restart
functioning as normal communities;
- To help create wage employment from the investment of the
rebuilding process as a way of contributing to the recovery
of the local economy;
Activities
- Mobilization of affected communities
- Organizing Community Development Councils
- Conducting Community Action Planning
- Community Contracting to rebuild housing and infrastructure
- Restoring livelihood through savings and credit
Progress
The100 houses are fully completed and have been handed
over to the beneficiaries.
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