Our initiatives help disaster-affected communities meet their immediate food, non-food, shelter, and health needs while preparing a basis for longer-term recovery and development of lives, livelihoods, and resilience.
Relief, recovery, and rehabilitation from natural and conflict-induced disasters
Our initiatives help disaster-affected communities meet their immediate food, non-food, shelter, health, and WASH needs while simultaneously establishing the basic foundation for resilient, longer-term recovery and development of lives and livelihoods. Community participation throughout the response, from assessments and planning through completion, ensures ownership, increased resilience, and support to the most vulnerable families. Activities frequently account for early recovery needs from the start. After the provision of life-saving interventions, activities focus on the restoration of lives and livelihoods to pre-disaster levels. Food security and livelihoods remain at the core of recovery and rehabilitation with a particular focus on agriculture and livestock restoration, skill development, and the establishment of household level income generation initiatives such as kitchen gardening and poultry farming. An important aspect is the re-establishment of basic social services, specifically health and education, through the reconstruction or rehabilitation of disaster-affected infrastructure or the provision of services. Furthermore, the rehabilitation of damaged community infrastructure is an integral part of the recovery and rehabilitation phase. It encourages community members to work together in rebuilding common infrastructure and provides livelihood through the cash-for-work scheme. Capacity building and awareness sessions play an important role in our recovery and rehabilitation interventions because they support the effectiveness and sustainability of the initiatives and increase the likelihood that communities will continue best practices.
