Assessments

Title of Program: Pre-Survey on Special Measures for Post-Disaster Rehabilitation in Aceh Time of survey: April 21 – 23, 2005 Member of Team - Mr. Hatori Hiroyuki, JICA Expert, Mangrove Information Center - Ms. Luh Sutarmi, Mangrove Information Center Background and…

Executive Summary The 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami devastated communities by killing and injuring hundreds of thousands, displacing the survivors and in many cases destroying their livelihoods. An unprecedented outpouring of support by the international community is enabling the government…

Mission Highlights - The 26 December 2004 earthquake, tsunami and the 29 March 2005 earthquake caused great loss of life, damage and disruption. It strongly affected the primary sector's economy, but did not induce major structural changes within the Provinces.…

Objectives: - To review the status of delivery of assistance in response to earthquake of 28 March 2005 - To assess the needs of the IDPs - To determine the nature of further assistance required Scope and Limitations: The visit to South Nias…

Executive Summary The reconstruction of Aceh will require huge quantities of timber. This cannot be responsibly supplied from the already overstretched legitimate Indonesian sources, now unable even to meet demand for the domestic timber processing industry itself. Timber prices in Aceh…

Introduction Of all countries hit by the December 2004 tsunami, Indonesia suffered highest losses and severest damages. More than 126,000 people were killed by the earthquake and the floods. Economic losses from the earthquake and resultant tsunami were severe, particularly on…

Introduction Sri Lanka was devastated by the tsunami along 1200km (68%) of its 1770km costal belt. Twelve of the fourteen coastal districts, were affected, only in the North-Western region the damage was minimal. The island has never experienced a devastation…

Abstract In early April 2005 AusAID, Australia's aid agency, requested RedR Australia to deploy four Engineers to Jakarta for transfer to Nias Island, Indonesia. Four engineers from the RedR Australia register were selected at short notice to conduct an assessment…

I. INTRODUCTION The tsunami that struck Sri Lanka on 26th of December killed more than 30,000 persons and initially displaced a further 800,000 according to the figures released by the Government of Sri Lanka. During the following days and nights…

Introduction 1.1. Background On 26 December 2004, an extremely strong earthquake (8,9 on the Richter scale) occurred below the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra Island. This earthquake, that later caused a tsunami wave, ravaged the most part of Aceh and Nias…