Institutional Development at Village Level in the earthquake affected areas, Transformation of VRCs into Local Support Organizat
Martin Weiersmueller
Factsheet, English, 9 pages
Summary
The devastating earthquake on 8th October 2005 over an area of 30,000 square km across NWFP and AJK killed 88’000 and injured more then 100’000 people. As a result according to the official statistics of government of Pakistan 460’000 houses damaged. Most of the damages occurred in the rural and mountainous areas. SDC-HA is one of the institutional partners to the governmental Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) in the implementation of the private rural housing reconstruction strategy. SDC operates two out of 11 ERRA Housing Reconstruction Centers (HRCs), one in district Battagram and one in Tehsil Balakot. Since spring 2006Trainings and technical assistance is provided in the two HRCs on earthquake safer building methods according to the standards of the << Build Back Better>> -Strategy. ERRA together with its partners adopted owner-based approach in the implementationof housing reconstruction.
Topic
Construction