1. 1. Title Page
1.1. Title: The early recovery coordination strategy bringing back the livelihood of
flood affected people in Batticaloa.
1.2. Name of the author: S.Thanikaseelan.
1.3. Address the author:
Personal: Main Street, Thettativu-02, Batticaloa.
Official: United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), 50, Lady Manning
Drive, Batticaloa.
1.4. E-mail address: stseelan2000@yahoo.com
1.5. Author for all correspondence: S.Thanikaseelan, Main Street, Thettativu-02,
Batticaloa.
2. Abstract:
Starting on 26 December 2010, Batticaloa was struck by the heaviest rains in almost
one hundred years, causing devastating north east monsoon floods in 14 Divisional
Secretariat Areas. The flood damage is incurred to homes, infrastructure, schools,
water supply and sanitation systems, among other. The most recent floods are
preceded by intense rainfall which had already put many of the conflict-affected
returnees at risk.
At the district level, UNDP has been playing an increasingly important role in Early
Recovery/Recovery coordination and programming. Early Recovery (ER) is
understood as a multidimensional recovery process that begins in the humanitarian
setting, and encompasses the restoration of basic services, livelihoods, shelter,
governance, security and the rule of law, environment and social dimensions
including the reintegration of displaced populations.
The main problem is how to coordinate effectively among government institution,
non government institution and community to setback the community who were
affected in the recent monsoon flood in the resettlement divisional secretariats
division.
So that the paper argues that early recovery coordination unit what are the strategies
using to overcome the duplication and overlap in the livelihood early recovery
assistants through using tools the available secondary data, interview, UN repots for
the analysis the gap in the divisions.
The main objectives
Ensure the effective data collection, analysis, find the needs and gap and also updating
the analyzed data and disseminate to the all other partners.
• Organize the coordination meeting in with deferent partners.
• Collect the data systematically and develop the livelihood matrix and updating.
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2. • Mapping the livelihood needs, gap and responses.
Existing data collection mechanism of early recovery unites, UNDP Batticaloa.
The above data processing method describes the data gathering, processing and
dissemination as a shape of matrix, early recovery coordination map, gap analysis and
coordination.
Ensure the early recovery of the flood affected people in the district.
• Early recovery activities bordering on humanitarian activities such as quick
impact income generation, alternative livelihood development, indigenous
product development, community empowerment and social cohesion. The nature
of these intervention will be by default labour intensive, requiring limited inputs
that can be found locally.
Ensure the clusters integration and quick response through create the well
coordination mechanism.
• Cluster coordination method.
• District wise coordination methods
• Divisional level coordination system.
3. Keywords:
heaviest rains, devastating, incurred, infrastructure, intense rainfall, conflict-affected,
Early Recovery (ER), multidimensional, humanitarian setting, encompasses,
reintegration.
4. Introduction:
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3. Early recovery is recovery that begins in the post-disaster response or humanitarian
relief setting, immediately following a natural disaster or armed conflict. The shared
aims of relief efforts and early recovery are clear; both early recovery and relief
efforts aim to generate self-sustaining, nationally-owned processes to stabilize human
security and address underlying risks that contributed to the crisis. Necessarily
therefore, early recovery includes activities that will repair, rebuild and strengthen
governance, livelihoods, shelter, environment and social dimensions, including the
reintegration of displaced populations.
The main objective of this paper to ensure the effective early recovery to response the
right vulnerable people with reduce the duplication with their real needs for the flood
affected people in the district through using the coordination methods as explained
above as the key objectives.
Once the following livelihood and income recovery activities as well the coordination
strategy implement the given key objectives will be achieved.
Livelihood and income recovery
• Undertake rapid impact, needs and capacity assessments focused on local
economic resources and livelihood opportunities including labour market surveys
and analysis
• Carry out pre-disaster agriculture and environment situation mapping and
provide pre-disaster maps on rurel economic activity
• Provide geospatial support for updating household surveys: change detection,
qualification and quantification
• preventive and responsive measures in collaboration with communities,
authorities and other relevant actors; and provide cash grants and emergency
social protection schemes for these groups and those who cannot work
• Establish and conduct capacity building of Emergency Employment Service
Centers
• Design and implementation of emergency employment schemes (e.g. rubble
clearance, rehabilitation of community infrastructure)
• Promote micro and small enterprise recovery through short-cycle business-
management training, cash grants, access to microfinance schemes and coaching
• Restore and reinstate remittance facilities
• Provide and repair fishing boats and fishing equipment
• Restore damaged crops and distribute seeds, seed vouchers, fertilizers, hand tools,
provide credit to traders, and promote improved land management techniques, to
prevent soil erosion and exhaustion as well as promoting diversification of food
crops to improve nutrition, and cash crops to increase bio diversity and incomes
• Repair flood control and irrigation schemes
• Protect and rehabilitate productive assets (fodder production, animal health,
management of natural resources)
• Provide support to horticulture, home or school gardens, or re-establishment of
orchards
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4. • Assess the use of natural resources as coping mechanisms in post-crisis situations
to supplement normal forms of income, and recommend measures for sustainable
management of resources, for reduced reliance on natural resources for income
and for rehabilitating impacted areas
Coordination strategy
• Assess the capacity of district and local authorities to lead and coordinate early
recovery efforts
• Strengthen local governance capacity to plan and manage the recovery effort,
including facilitation of early recovery prioritization meetings at district and
divisional levels
• Support district authority coordination and advocacy for early recovery, with
an emphasis on basic service delivery
• Establish effective and participative early recovery coordination mechanism to
support district
efforts
• Support coordinated early recovery needs assessment, and advocate for early
recovery issues to
be taken into account in other needs assessments by national and
international humanitarian and
development actors.
• Support the establishment of monitoring and evaluation systems for early
recovery activities
• Support early recovery resource mobilization efforts and the tracking of donor
assistance
5. Methodology:
Based on the paper, secondary as well primary sources are using to achieve the
objectives. Under the secondary source the UNOCHA publication, government
publications, district wise early recovery reports, monthly flood recovery reports,
post-flood assessment reports, district livelihood matrices and maps have selected for
analyze the problem to achieve the objectives as well as the primary sources which
included participant and non-participant observation method also have used to
analyze this paper.
6. Results and Discussion:
An early recovery coordination strategy should display some or all of the following
results:
• It identifies the real needs, available capacity of the agencies, and gap of the
response and reduces the duplication and overlap of the recovery assistants.
• It builds on emergency assistance programmes to ensure that their inputs become
assets for longer-term recovery and development.
• It supports local initiatives to revive livelihoods, through for example agricultural
restoration.
• It addresses the underlying causes of the crisis.
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5. • It builds the necessary foundation required for managing the recovery effort, for
example, by rapid restoration of lost capacity at the local government level in the
crisis affected area.
• It strengthens existing capacities of local authorities to manage/coordinate crises,
for example, through training programmes on local governance responsibilities.
• It strengthens district capacities to respect, protect and fulfill the rights of the
people and promotes legal, institutional, and policy changes that can have a quick
impact on the performance of local authorities and communities – by filling
resource, authority and responsibility gaps, for example.
• It strengthens the immediate or basic capacities of communities to cope with the
crisis, for example, through training of affected populations on construction
techniques that would allow them to reduce the risk of further loss from disasters.
• It focuses on activities that prepare for the return of displaced communities, for
example, repair of minor infrastructure such as small feeder roads and bridges to
permit access to markets and access to abandoned housing or farming plots
abandoned as a result of the crisis.
• It focuses on providing services for returning communities, such as water and
sanitation, education, health, etc.
• It mainstreams peace-building and reconciliation activities, through for example,
facilitation of dialogue among communities and reintegrating populations.
• It links into local-level early recovery coordination mechanisms, which are
supported by a strong interagency coordination mechanism for agencies
supporting service provision at the local level, with a clear allocation of roles and
responsibilities.
• It utilizes inter-cluster coordination and interdependence of elements according
to the partners’ mandates.
7. Conclusions:
After 26 December 2010, Batticaloa was struck by the heaviest rains causing
devastating north east monsoon floods in 14 Divisional Secretariat Areas. Most of the
people in Batticaloa are depending on the agriculture, home gardening, field crop,
livestock and high land vegetable cultivation for their income generation. Even
though, the destruction of houses, agricultural land, livestock, livelihood assets,
market places and other infrastructure as a result of the floods is having a dramatic
impact on households’ ability to generate food and income. Preliminary estimates
reveal that the floods inundated and damaged 50 000 acres of Agricultural land in
Batticaloa.
Particularly the floods have led to widespread crop losses in the affected areas and
investments towards the Maha season cultivation are largely nullified. Assessment
confirms a 100% loss of paddy and other field crops planted in Batticaloa affecting
nearly 15,000 households. Communities will feel the long-term effects of the floods in
destroyed livelihoods and heightened food insecurity, unless they receive adequate
support to recover. Apart from destroyed livelihoods and heightened food insecurity,
unless they receive adequate support to recover. Apart from farming families, fisher
folk and casual labourers are also vulnerable to the economic devastation of the
floods.
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6. Based on the crisis situation, the effective coordination strategies support to find the
result through obtain the objectives to bring back the affected communities by the
flood.
8. Acknowledgment:
The field research presented in this report was made possible by the co-operation of
many people, including those involved in the recovery field, people in the field also
planning unite of Kachery. The staffs with whom this research was conducted spent a
large amount of time answering our question, brodning our understanding of on-the-
ground situation and discussing their problem.
I wish to thank Mr.A.Sureshkumar Programme officer of UMCOR, Batticaloa, and I also
greatly appreciate the corporation of my friends Mr.P Jeyaseelan & Mr.
K.Paartheepan, who made important contribution throughout the research.
Although many people were involved in conducting the field research and in
gathering information from various sources, I am solely responsible for the analysis
presented herein and for any error, omissions or inconsistencies in the report.
9. References:
1. Cluster Working group on early recovery, in cooperation with the UNDG-ECHA
Working Group on Transition,
http://www.humanitarianreform.org/humanitarianreform/Portals/1/cluster%20approach
%20page/clusters%20pages/Early%20R/ER_Internet.pdf
2. UNDP Policy on early recovery, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery ,
February, 2008,
http://www.undp.org/cpr/iasc/content/docs/TBWMarch08/Doc1.pdf
3. IASC, Implementing Early Recovery, July -2006, Cluster Working Group on Early
Recovery,
http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/recovery/Implementing%20Early
%20Recovery.pdf
4. Cluster Working group on early recovery Donor Proposal 2010/11,
http://oneresponse.info/GlobalClusters/Early
%20Recovery/publicdocuments/CWGER%20donor%20proposal_final.pdf
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7. Based on the crisis situation, the effective coordination strategies support to find the
result through obtain the objectives to bring back the affected communities by the
flood.
8. Acknowledgment:
The field research presented in this report was made possible by the co-operation of
many people, including those involved in the recovery field, people in the field also
planning unite of Kachery. The staffs with whom this research was conducted spent a
large amount of time answering our question, brodning our understanding of on-the-
ground situation and discussing their problem.
I wish to thank Mr.A.Sureshkumar Programme officer of UMCOR, Batticaloa, and I also
greatly appreciate the corporation of my friends Mr.P Jeyaseelan & Mr.
K.Paartheepan, who made important contribution throughout the research.
Although many people were involved in conducting the field research and in
gathering information from various sources, I am solely responsible for the analysis
presented herein and for any error, omissions or inconsistencies in the report.
9. References:
1. Cluster Working group on early recovery, in cooperation with the UNDG-ECHA
Working Group on Transition,
http://www.humanitarianreform.org/humanitarianreform/Portals/1/cluster%20approach
%20page/clusters%20pages/Early%20R/ER_Internet.pdf
2. UNDP Policy on early recovery, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery ,
February, 2008,
http://www.undp.org/cpr/iasc/content/docs/TBWMarch08/Doc1.pdf
3. IASC, Implementing Early Recovery, July -2006, Cluster Working Group on Early
Recovery,
http://www.undp.org/cpr/documents/recovery/Implementing%20Early
%20Recovery.pdf
4. Cluster Working group on early recovery Donor Proposal 2010/11,
http://oneresponse.info/GlobalClusters/Early
%20Recovery/publicdocuments/CWGER%20donor%20proposal_final.pdf
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