Map of Tsunami affected areas INDIA HUMAN LIFE LOST 1,000 to 7,000 ANDHRA PRADESH 500 to 1,000 Visakhapatnam 100 to 500 TOLL: 107 10 to 50 POP. AFFECTED: 196000 0 to 10 East Godavari West Godavari Krishna Guntur Parkasham Nellore ANDAMAN & Thiruvallur NICOBAR ISLANDS Kancheepuram TOLL: 3513 Villupuram POP. AFFECTED: 356000 PONDICHERRY Pondicherry TOLL: 599 Nagapattinam POP. AFFECTED: 43000 Karaikal Ernakulam Tiruvarur Allappuzha TAMIL NADU TOLL: 8009 Kollam Thoothukudi KERALA POP. AFFECTED: 897000 TOLL: 177 Tirunelveli POP. AFFECTED: 1300000 Kanyakumari 0 250 500 kilometers For more information about the UNTRS please contact: United Nations Team for Recovery Support Apex Towers, 54, 2nd Main Road, R.A.Puram Chennai 600 028 Tel: +91 44 42 303 551 e-mail: [email protected] Contents - Quarterly Report April 2006 1 Editorial..........................................................................................................................page 4 Water & Sanitation 2 Source of health, source of sickness STORY: Access to clean water - essential beyond any emergency..........................page 5 Health & Nutrition 3 Surveillance of communicable diseases Basic health care for people living in temporary shelters...........................................page 6 Psychosocial support 4 Support for mind and soul Alcohol and substance abuse....................................................................................page 7 Livelihood 5 One stop shop............................................................................................................page 8 Education 6 Educational intervention in the Tsunami affected districts Training for Confidence.......................................................................................page 9 Shelter & Habitat 7 Disaster resistant housing Study for good practices............................................................................................page 10 Trafficking & HIV/AIDS 8 HIV/AIDS high risk in the Tsunami affected areas Special programme for women and girls ..................................................................page 12 Disaster Risk Management Learning how to respond to and be prepared for disasters 9 Several kinds of training to enhance preparedness STORY: To rescue oneself and others......................................................................page 14 Policy support 10 Coordination and sharing of information STORY: Community Radio - Giving a voice to the voiceless...................................page 16 Environment 11 Forgotten Environment Better use of the Coastal Zone Regulation...............................................................page 18 We’d like to thank the following Donors: American India Foundation (AIF), Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID), European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), Ford Foundation, French Committee for UNICEF, Global Thematic Humanitarian Fund, Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF, Japan Government, United Nations Foundation (UNF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 3 1 Editorial One and a half years have passed since a massive Tsunami struck the coastal areas of countries around the Indian Ocean. In India alone, over 12,000 people lost their lives and the destruction and damage of public and private property was enormous. An immediate joint assessment of the situation was conducted by the Government of India with the participation of the United Nations, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. From the beginning the Government of India successfully led the large scale relief and recovery efforts and with the help of an extraordinary international response a lot has been achieved during the past 18 months. Basic social services have been restored including the provision of psychosocial care to thousands of people to learn how to deal with the mental impact of losing loved ones, losing property or by having gone through such a catastrophic event; livelihoods of fisherman and other affected groups were put back on track and immediate shelter has been provided to thousands of families, with the provision of permanent housing underway. From the start, the United Nations Agencies worked closely together, formulating jointly an inter-agency response which is outlined in the UN Tsunami Recovery Framework 2005 - 2007. The UN agencies alone have since mobilized more than 46 million US dollars and have supported the relief efforts of the Indian Government in many key areas in order to build back better. Now, after 18 months, the work is shifting from the provision of emergency relief to long-term and sustainable development assistance. Still a lot has to be done and many of the recovery programmes are only gaining momentum now. Current UN joint programmes are addressing issues related to health and nutrition, HIV/AIDS and trafficking, policies to support permanent shelter, basic education, creation of durable livelihoods in the fisheries and non-fisheries sectors, water and sanitation and environmental protection. Basic human rights principles are applied to all areas of programming, such as ensuring social equity in order to avoid uneven distribution of the development benefits to different social groups. Another important area of work focuses on future disaster risk management, aimed at building capacities of government S R and communities to mitigate the impact of future disasters. T N U : o To keep reminding the world that supporting the affected t o h population goes way beyond the immediate relief, the p Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has appointed former US President William J. Clinton as the Special Envoy for Tsunami Rehabilitation. In February this year Eric Schwartz, Mr. Clintons Deputy, traveled to India to get an overall view about the recovery efforts and possible issues attached. Eric Schwartz visited temporary shelters in North Chennai where he was moved by the resilience of countless tsunami survivors who described how they had been uprooted from their homes on four A future to hold on to: Deputy Special Envoy Eric Schwartz(r.) and Gagandeep Singh Bedi, District Collector of Cuddalore, inspect the separate occasions, first from the tsunami and then by new house for this Tsunami affected family. floods caused by the recent monsoons and finally by fires. He visited newly built permanent houses for a fisher community in Devanapattinam, Cuddalore and met with NGO and UN officials working on ensuring that the rebuilding efforts in India are environmentally friendly. Speaking about India's efforts to launch an early warning system in July this year, Eric Schwartz said in a press statement: “One of the first lessons we learned from the tsunami is that early warning saves lives. I am very pleased that the Government of India is part of the region's commitment to ensuring that an effective regional early warning system is in place this summer. Equally important is the Government of India's implementation of a UNDP community based disaster preparedness program which targets 169 multi-hazard prone districts in 17 states, including Tamil Nadu,” he added. Introducing myself I joined the UN team in Chennai as the UN Tsunami Coordinator early March 2006 and it is my role to guide the UN agencies during this transition phase, ensuring an efficient, effective and well coordinated implementation of the UN Tsunami Recovery Framework. All agencies currently still involved in the recovery work, including UNICEF, UNDP, FAO, ILO, WHO, UNESCO and UNFPA, continue this effort of joint programming, making best use of each agency's strengths, creating synergies, and reducing transaction costs. Excellent cooperation with the Government and continued support of our donors has been very instrumental to the success of this process. This publication provides an update of the current state of UN's Tsunami recovery support to the Government of India. It outlines in greater detail what I have introduced above and I am sure you will find it useful and informative. Thank you. Pieter Bult, . UN Coordinator UN Team for Recovery Support 4 2 Water and Sanitation U P D A T E SOURCE OF HEALTH, SOURCE OF SICKNESS S Water is the source of designed to provide safe drinking water to families in R T N wellbeing and of sickness interim shelters, schools as well as the so-called U : o t alike. When the Tsunami Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) o h p struck, the ground water centres. Quantity and quality of water available to was polluted and spoiled by families in shelters has to improve and the access to sea water. Clean water sanitary toilets in interim shelters, schools and ICDS Water: a precious commodity sources and sanitary, centres need to be guaranteed. Other goals are to hygienic conditions are vital for good health. Hence, establish solid and liquid waste management UNICEF is active in the matter of water, sanitation systems in temporary shelters and to improve and hygiene. The goal of the water and sanitation hygiene education in shelters, homes, schools and programme in the Tsunami relief and recovery is to ICDS centres.To reach these objectives, shelter- create a safe environment for children and based activities, school sanitation as well as significantly reduce the risk of waterborne diseases hygiene education and promotion have been like diarrhoea, which are spread by contaminated implemented in 92 shelters in seven Tsunami water and unsanitary conditions. Activities were affected districts and schools. S T O R Y