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Grameen Foundation
Introduction – only
systematic survey so far
Key findings about Aceh’s
banks, NGOs and microfinance so far
Key conclusions about
needs and channelling of donor funds to 11 projects to meet them
Action to create Acehnese
MFIs
Projects – fishing,
farming, retail and reselling, craft industries
Recommendations selecting
certain NGOs
Budgets for each NGO
Microfinance with grants
not just loans
IT and training
News/PR
GFUSA's rating
GF Sitemap
About GFUSA:
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Members
of Grameen Foundation USA’s tsunami assessment team were on-site in the areas
affected by the tsunami from early February through late April, working in
concert with microfinance practitioners in the region and microfinance experts
in Washington.
They
claimed it is the only systematic, regional survey of microfinance-related
impact opportunities in tsunami-affected countries, it resulted in a
four-country plan for
Grameen
Foundation USA (GFUSA) is described as a young, dynamic, global organization
that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovative thinking to
empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty. In just seven years, GFUSA has established a
global network of 50 partners in 20 countries and has impacted an estimated 5.5
million lives in
Three
key findings made about Aceh microfinance included:
(1)
Branch offices of government and private financial institutions—such as the
rural People’s Credit Banks (Bank Perkreditan Rakyat) - generally do not extend
loans without requiring collateral, which makes their lending largely
unavailable to the poor.
(2)
Of the almost 100 NGOs operating in Aceh before the tsunami, only three were
engaged in some form of microcredit activity. Two of these were severely affected
by the tsunami, losing key staff, documents and files. Thus, there was not much
microfinance infrastructure in place to use and build on, as was the case in
other countries that we surveyed.
(3)
MFIs in
Key
conclusions made by in the report included:
.
That tens of thousands of survivors are being held back in their efforts to
recover because they lack investment capital, even as little as $50.
"The
nascent state of microfinance in Aceh demands action to help create strong
Acehnese MFIs that will cater to the microfinance needs of tsunami survivors
now and over the long term. This is an urgent need, based on interviews and
surveys showing wide interest in microfinance services. Based on extensive
interviews with potential microfinance clients, today the only choice for
Acehnese seeking loans is to work with moneylenders offering rates as high as
10 percent per month or one percent per day. These are rates they cannot
afford, and as a result economic recovery is being retarded and unnecessary
suffering prolonged.
Venture
capital action was urged. "The team recommends that GFUSA and the donor
community take a venture capitalist approach and fund three young, educated,
ambitious local groups (and five overall), many of whose staff have worked as
volunteers, and are now providing basic services to tsunami survivors. Working
from these beneficiary lists, many of the neediest survivors will have access
to credit to start rebuilding their lives. If even one of these efforts gets
traction and has a big impact over time, this should be considered a success.
Some
reservations about local NGOs in the actions "There is a certain amount of
risk in partnering with the local agencies because they have little or no prior
microfinance experience, and with the MFIs from other provinces, as they do not
know the local realities.
Grameen
Foundation
•
Fisherfolk need loans to rebuild their boats and repair or replace equipment
that was damaged or lost;
•
Farmers need funds to reclaim flood-soaked lands and purchase livestock and
equipment;
•
Shopkeepers and traders need to replace depleted inventories and purchase food
and other items for resale; and
•
Craftspeople need money for supplies, new sewing machines and more.
"Our
team’s findings suggest that tens of thousands of survivors are being held back
in their efforts to recover because they lack investment capital, even as
little as $50. They also found that MFIs stand ready to meet those needs, but
require additional support to do so.
Recommended
MFIs: CARE Aceh, Rumohkita, SEFA, YAMIDA and YKBS are the five in
1.
CARE Aceh: Provide $3 million to help 12,500 affected families. CARE Aceh
conducts alternative education programs, economic development and healthcare
training, as well as emergency assistance training. To substantiate its
economic development program. CARE Aceh wants to implement microfinance
projects in select districts of Aceh, with priority given to women housed in
villages with their relatives.
2.
Rumohkita: Provide $300,000 to help 700 affected families. Rumohkita focuses on
communities of internally displaced peoples (IDPs) living in houses, which are
more abundant than those living in refugee shelters (the numbers of IDPs living
in Aceh reached 260,000, compared to 140,000 living in refugee shelters.) These
‘housed’ IDPs were largely ignored by larger relief organizations, because they
were wrongly assumed to be in a better condition than those living in refugee
camps. Rumohkita feels that they require the same kind of assistance as IDPs in
refugee shelters but are
in
a better position to start community healing efforts to heal themselves and
their community.
3.
Save Emergency for Aceh (SEFA): Provide $2 million to help 4,000 affected
families. SEFA is a humanitarian organization with a mission similar to that of
CARE Aceh. SEFA was established on
several
young university graduates of Aceh and has gained support and recognition from
various groups and agencies which are convinced of SEFA’s vision, mission,
integrity and dedication in delivering humanitarian assistance and bringing
about
social
transformation in Aceh’s more disadvantaged communities.
4.
Yayasan Mitra Dhuafa (YAMIDA): Provide $2.5 million to help 14,000 families.
YAMIDA was founded in
its
first microfinance operation in Banda Aceh if funding is available.
5.
Yayasan Kariya Bunda Sejahtera (YKBS): Provide $2.8 million to help 3,600
affected families. YKBS is a new NGO, planning to begin operations in Aceh.
YKBS is staffed by Acehnese with years of experience in Grameen-type
microfinance. One of its key management officials was formerly connected with
Yayasa Pokmas Mandiri in
From
report download at: http://www.gfusa.org/pubdownload/~pubid=2
The
team met with six groups, including CARE Aceh, RumohKita, SEFA, Solidaritas,
YAMIDA, YKBS and arrived at a general framework for supporting their
microcredit activities, which include special conditions for year-one
micro-finance projects that will be mature in two or three years. It said:
"We
are suggesting that $1.96 million be provided in the twelve months beginning
July 2005 to support five of these MFIs, based on a competitive but streamlined
process."
Budgets
(from back of the report):
Indonesia
Care Aceh Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 3,440 4,128 4,954 = 12,522
Cost
per Client $256 $247 $246 aver $249
New
People Helped 17,200 20,640 24,768 = 62,608
Cost
per Person Helped $51 $49 $49 aver $50
New
Staff Trained 4 6 9 = 19
MIS
Units Installed 1 in Y1
Total
Budget $880,000 $1,020,000 $1,220,000 = $3,120,000
Cost
per Client $450 $375 $347 aver $385
New
People Helped 1,000 1,200 1,440 = 3,640
Cost
per Person Helped $90 $75 $69 aver $77
New
Staff Trained 5 8 11 = 24
MIS
Units Installed 1 all Y1
Total
Budget $90,000 $90,000 $100,000 = $280,000
SEFA
Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 1,000 1,200 1,440 = 3,640
Cost
per Client $270 $792 $660 aver $596
New
People Helped 5,000 6,000 7,200 = 18,200
Cost
per Person Helped $54 $158 $132 aver $119
New
Staff Trained 5 8 11 = 24
MIS
Units Installed 1 in Y1.
Total
Budget $270,000 $950,000 $950,000 = $2,170,000
YAMIDA
Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 3,750 4,500 5,400 = 13,650
Cost
per Client $93 $169 $285 aver $194
New
People Helped 18,750 22,500 27,000 = 68,250
Cost
per Person Helped $19 $34 $57 = $39
New
Staff Trained 6 9 14 = 29
MIS
Units Installed 1 all Y1
Total
Budget $350,000 $760,000 $1,540,000 = $2,650,000
YKBS
Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 1,000 1,200 1,440 = 3,640
Cost
per Client $370 $633 $1,146 aver $764
New
People Helped 5,000 6,000 7,200 = 18,200
Cost
per Person Helped $74 $127 $229 aver $153
New
Staff Trained 10 15 23 = 48
MIS
Units Installed 1 all Y1
Total
Budget $370,000 $760,000 $1,650,000 = $2,780,000
Indonesia
Total Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 9,390 11,268 13,522 = 34,180
Avg.
Cost per Client $209 $318 $404 aver $322
New
People Helped 46,950 56,340 67,608 = 170,898
Avg.
Cost per Person Helped $42 $64 $81 aver $64
New
Staff Trained 30 45 67 = 142
MIS
Units Installed 5 all Y1
Total
Budget $1,960,000 $3,580,000 $5,460,000 = $11,000,000
Overall
Tsunami reconstruction countries, Y1, Y2, Y3 = Y1-3 (Total) respectively:
New
Clients 31,816; 12,268; 13,522; = 57,606
Avg.
Cost per Client $257 $337 $404 aver $308
New
People Helped 159,080 61,340 67,608 = 288,028
Avg.
Cost per Person Helped $51 $67 $81 aver $62
New
Staff Trained 56 49 67 = 172
MIS
Units Installed 6 (all Y1)
Total
Budget $8,170,000 $4,130,000 $5,460,000
= $17,760,000 ..
The
team recommended grant deviations from normal MFI practices: "by being willing to provide at least
part of the funding to NGOs as grants. The most likely uses for grants funds
will be for branch establishment costs, staff training, purchase of software
and related systems, and technical assistance. Low-interest loans in local
currency will likely be the means of providing loan capital, but GFUSA will
remain open to providing that as a grant for year-one operations only, on a
case-by-case basis."
Likewise
with loans: "Deviate from normal microfinance best practice by allowing
MFI partners to provide financing to clients that might include a mixture of
asset transfers (grants), subsidized loans and loans at market rates for a
limited period, as long as they are in the context of a medium-term plan to
become sustainable and follow generally accepted best practices. The grant
portion can be used for purchasing new equipment, machines and business
facilities, while the loans will be for buying stocks and inventories of raw
materials and other working capital. The Tsunami Assessment team gathered the proposed
NGOs during a recent visit and gained consensus on terms for the first year of
the project."
The
report exampled an Aceh woman widowed by the death of her public servant
husband who now needs about $40 to buy fruits in bulk for her food cooking
home-based business. Where can this working capital come from? It’s a question
facing hundreds of thousands of people in tsunami-stricken countries struggling
to rebuild their lives livelihoods. Getting 30 days trading terms is not an
available option for many.
(To
provide the answer): Microfinance consists of making small loans, usually less
than $200, to individuals, usually women, to establish or expand a small,
self-sustaining business. Website example: A woman may borrow $50 to buy
chickens so she can sell eggs. As the chickens multiply, she will have more
eggs to sell. Soon she can sell the chicks. Each expansion pulls her further
from the devastation of poverty.
More
at: http://www.gfusa.org/about_us/microfinance/
The
team advocated a standard MIS system in all five NGOs. "This investment
will help build a strong foundation for collecting data from the very
beginning. The economies of scale in implementing this system into all four
agencies at once will save both time and money. As the organizations grow, the
MIS will become increasingly important and it is therefore critical to have the
right systems in place from the beginning. The software package we are
recommending is M2, developed in the
The
systems and team training needs were linked: "Direct that initial funds be
used to assist the selected agencies in developing the systems and staffing
they need. As a first step, the selected agencies will use resources to set up
minimally acceptable management information systems and credit processes that
will give the best chances for the programs to be sustained in the longrun.”
For
training of the new Acehnese MFIs, it said: "A second priority will be to
hire additional staff, including a financial manager, program manager and
senior loan officer, and give them training in microfinance methodologies,
likely from quality MFIs operating in other parts of Indonesia. Agencies also
will receive funds to begin hiring loan officers who can start training
immediately, and when the first borrowing groups are established, resources for
loan capital will be made available. A GFUSA microfinance expert will be
on-site to supervise this process over the entire year."
From
GFUSA's website are these details of
* The Microfinance Open Source Project
(mifos)
* The Rural Transaction System (in
partnership with Hewlett Packard and the Micro Development Finance Team)
* Grameen Bank Replication Program:
Management Information System (MIS) Implementations
More:
http://www.gfusa.org/technology_center/projects_in_brief/
Expect
an announcement soon about timing to act on the report's summit intention:
"Coordinate efforts among potential partners and stakeholders in the
initiative. In response to its findings of poor coordination, GFUSA will
complement its work with these local MFIs by organizing a mini-summit among
stakeholders in the Indonesian microfinance sector as soon as possible. Participants
will include potential partners, donor representatives, selected client
representatives and local district leaders. The aim of the summit will be to
lay out ground rules, policies, terms and conditions of microlending, and to
discuss potential problems and risks. This group will also form the base for
the advocacy required to introduce a microfinance law in
The
latest news was about delivery of the report to a conference in the
More
at: http://www.gfusa.org/newsroom/
GFUSA's
rating given by Charity Navigator listing: Extracts:
RATINGS
OVERALL (63.37)
ORGANIZATIONAL
EFFICIENCY
Program Expenses 83.7%
Administration Expenses 14.7%
Fundraising Expenses 1.5%
Fundraising Efficiency $0.01
EFFICIENCY
RATING: (38.37)
ORGANIZATIONAL
CAPACITY
Primary Revenue Growth 29.1%
Program Expenses Growth 37.6%
Working Capital Ratio (years) 0.33
CAPACITY
RATING: (25.00)
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Tsunami
Recovery Initiative contacts:
Liam
Collins
Senior
Program Manager
202-628-3560,
ext. 121.
lcollins@gfusa.org
Media
Kay
Hixson
Director
of Marketing
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NGO's fast response – and the bereaved fisherman
It seemed like judgement day
Work the best therapy say owners re-opening businesses in
Banda Aceh
Demand pull from the field please
"Payday" for portable purifiers pioneer
Oxfam urges rules of origin rethink
Army engineers refloat fishing vessels
Material help from Indian corporations.
Most immediate need is food
NT's aid finally being shipped Territorians that donated
new
Phoenix promises job creation and family help for Meulaboh
Aceh’s camps - Australia's ABC questions army’s intentions
Barge pier: Meulaboh too shallow for great idea
Possible argument for log and timber imports to Aceh
Muslims and US AID in job creation initiatives
Logistics of delivering tonnes of clean water
Indian Army engineers pitch in while world just considers
fishing industry assistance:
US carrier's air crew recall experiences in Aceh
US sappers prepare logistics hub while Indonesia rescinds
eviction
Funding and boat charters speed SurfAid's help to
offshore islands – see SurfAid and associated website
Aceh camps first to try medical help from computer links
Sri Lanka's extended family support in fishing at risk
Extended families only need a boat and a sewing machine
Previous week to 16 March
The remote
Andamans archipelago of 572 islands lies 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from
mainland
Aid
workers from Church World Service (
Village
headman Muhamad Nurdin told the mission aid workers what happened on Boxing
Day. "We were looking at the damage caused by the earthquake on December,
26th. Suddenly, the sea went back from the coast round about 200 metres.
And then a huge wave came, as big as a mountain."
His
wife and but two of his five children were killed. To those that outran the
wave it seemed like Judgement Day. "I started to pray and then I
heard my daughter calling me." Eleven year old Nurlisma had survived by
clinging to a tree.
Source:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6A9R4Q?OpenDocument
Nurhayati,
a shop owner and mother of eight who lost her elderly parents and sister to the
giant wave, has recently reopened her furniture store. It's in one of two
buildings still standing on the block. She boldly advertises new stock for
sale. For the hard-up she offers sodden half-price mattresses that her sons
have dragged outside to dry.
As
head of Banda Aceh's midwife association, Erni Nurdin used to train nurses at
her private clinic in the same district as Nurhayati's furniture store. Her
eldest daughter was due to graduate in January with a medical degree. But the
tsunami carried away her three daughters and husband.
One
month ago, though, she rented a shop across town and put up a hand-painted sign
that reads "Midwife Erni." With help from her son, and using donated
medicines, Nurdin opened her clinic last week and has received a steady stream
of old and new patients.
"I
want to work and work and never stop to think. I don't even want to sleep. I
don't want to think about my house and my children," she says.
At
night, teenagers weave through honking traffic on noisy motorbikes, drowning
out the muezzin's call from the city's numerous mosques. It's a far cry from
the initial scenes of devastation wrought by the massive earthquake and
subsequent tsunami that struck on 26 December.
Bodies
are still being recovered from the rubble, but aid workers say the clean-up has
gone better than many had expected, filling the stricken population with new
energy and optimism, and encouraging many who fled to return.
"The
fact that the streets were full of corpses [before] had a huge impact on
people. It was a reminder of everything that had happened to them. It's very
important that society can pick up and go forward," says Jesper Lund, a
relief coordinator for the United Nations. "Banda Aceh is alive today
because people have the will to move on."
For
impatient tsunami victims and many foreign aid groups, though,
Squinting
against the sun, Mariati says her carpenter husband is scavenging wood to build
a new house so her family of seven can leave their tent in a refugee camp. She
shakes her head at the idea of moving into another temporary shelter while the
government decides what to do with her village, in which no solid structure
remains. "I don't want to live anywhere else.... Why can't we live in a
tent here? Then my husband can keep working," she says.
Experts
say resolving these and other conflicts will stretch both
Rather
than waiting around, many residents are trying hard to keep busy.
Meanwhile,
the military pullout called for 26 March, the same day as
Source (1 Mar):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0301/p06s01-woap.html
About
the $10 million dollar cash for work program, he said it's very important to
get money back into people’s pocket. "Markets won’t get recreated unless
there is demand by people to buy things. And we want the private markets to
function. Because as much as we like the relief commodities, the best way for
people to support themselves is to purchase things on the market. So the best
thing we can do is to put people’s money, small amounts of money, in each
family’s pockets.
He
foresaw the reliance this would put on women. "Usually we try to rely on
the women, who are the heads of households, to be the caretaker of the
funding," he said. "We did this very successfully after the
Mozambican floods in the late 90s. We gave $100 to 90,000 households to the
women who were the heads of the households, and we checked later what they did
with the money. The rebuilt their mud huts. They bought windows and doors and
wood for their roofing material. They bought clothing because all the clothing
was destroyed. They bought furniture for their houses and they paid school fees
for their children, which is exactly what we wanted them to do with the money.
"But
they did it on their own. There was not a big bureaucracy involved. Very low
overhead rates. And many of us who do disaster response realized that direct
amounts of money to the people themselves is the best response because they
know what they need themselves. And I think there is a general agreement among
my colleagues who are development ministers in other countries that this
approach we need to consider very seriously here."
While
Australians and Spaniards brought large scale water purifying to main centres,
an American inventor-manufacturer wanted to get lightweight water purifiers on the
ground for aid/emergency relief in remoter parts.
Titusville
businessman
An
advocate emerged - Australian Dr Jeffrey Hammond who was organising dozens of
medical relief teams. Involved also in digging holes for new wells, he was
immediately impressed with the compact units. "We do the (wells) for the
long term, but short term they need clean water to drink now," he said.
Hurston's
team turned 18 of the 20 units over to doctors and relief organizations.
But
he wanted to mark his 54th birthday by a delivery to the people themselves.
His
chance came with a Chinook helicopter lift to Meulaboh where, clutching the
last two units, he footed off the main roads looking for where the wells were
most contaminated.
Thick
dust hung in the air and swirled through the endless piles of rubble and
splintered wood. Survivors wandered and scavenged through the wreckage for
remnants of their old lives. Even a mile inland there were boats amid the mud
and newly formed saltwater canals.
Finally,
on a back road still covered in a muddy sheen he found the poorest survivors
who came with smiling faces and big excited waves.
"This
is my payday," said the inventor-manufacturer with the last two of the
$40,000 worth of portable purifiers.
Hurston,
54, owner of Cartridge Source of America in
Instead,
he purchased a do-it-yourself kit and remanufactured his printer cartridge.
Word got out and soon people were dropping their printer cartridges off with
him. He began selling the cartridges for $50 but other times traded them for
eggs or aircraft fuel or hotel rooms.
Now
Hurston's passion is the Vortex Voyager portable water purifier, which his
company has started to manufacture.
Source (22 Jan):
http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/localstoryMAIN0123TSUNAMI1.htm
Sri
Lankan WTO Ambassador Gomi Tharaka Sendahira said the EU's new preference
scheme would provide little real help to his country in the absence of a
substantial change in the rules of origin, since
Sri
Lankan clothing manufacture accounts for more than half
Oxfam
proposes modifying these rules so that countries. In its Briefing Note of 7
January "The challenge after the
Appealing
to the EU, Oxfam said the figure was $ 77m, while
"This
annual flow of nearly $1bn into the treasuries of industrialised countries
could well exceed the aid they gave these countries," the Oxfam paper said.
Even
bigger amounts are at stake in debt relief, where Oxfam's paper claimed
In
2004,
The
UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has taken up the call for
temporary provision of duty-free treatment and recommended an immediate
suspension or termination of anti-dumping actions like against Thai shrimps.
But
the US International Trade Commission refused a hold on the anti-dumping
affecting Thai and Indian shrimp because of opposition from the
Sources:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/conflict_disasters/downloads/bn_tsunami.pdf
http://www.ictsd.org/weekly/05-01-19/story4.htm
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=80630
Elements
of a 1000-strong French Foreign Legion contingent in Meulaboh used chainsaws to
clear debris from some 10 fishing boats, to refloat them using a canal
nearby. Their spokeswoman Commander Anne Cullerre said it was vital work to
kick-start the economy in Meulaboh.
Source: Http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050120/3/3pz5r.html
25 Jan update.
Australian
Army engineers review before for pull out
See http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1298607.htm
On
the Indian mainland, Neyveli Lignite Corp (NLC) put its lorries, mini vans,
water tankers and jeeps into the relief effort in Cuddalore and Nagapattinam
districts, despatching a medical as well. NLC canteens distributed food
packets. This was in addition to NLC and staff's financial donations.
Distribution
of food packets by Indian corporate donors Sundaram Clayton Ltd and
subsidiaries TVS Motor Co and TVS Electronics passed the 30,000 mark, delivered
with their medical teams' operations in Pattinapakkam, Tiruvottiyur and
Neelankarai areas. Immediate inventory requirements of new blankets and sheets,
groceries and sets of utensils were also distributed to some 2,200
families. And SCL was extending relief to the badly hit Colachel area in
Kanyakumari ,
Http://newstodaynet.com/01jan/bu4.htm
One
in eight children in tsunami-affected areas of
"Instant noodles and rice are not high in nutrition," said Yuniar, a
young woman who is living in a tent with her husband and their five-year-old
daughter, Siti Raudhatul Gina. "Many people here have fever and
cough." Yuniar worked as a midwife until the tsunami hit her coastal
village, destroying it. Now she faces a daily struggle to find a good and
nutritious meal for her family. "We need more vitamins, fruits, eggs and milk,"
said Yuniar. "The food is only minimally sufficient here - I'm concerned
about the increase in the price of food here," said Mr. Mokdad. "I'm
also concerned about the harvest this year. Many people lost their fields. If
we have enough food, we should give more to the communities."
More (10 Feb):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JWIN-69HGFQ?OpenDocument
Territorians
that donated new goods and helped pallet them ready for shipping to Indonesia
nearly a month ago finally got the shipping containers despatched on a Swire
Ship headed for Jakarta. In a novel solution to the problem of shipping container
demurrage en transit, the NT Govt paid A$30,000 to buy the containers.
More (30 Jan)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=36874
Previous
oznewz story 13 Jan
Darwinians' promptly fill eight containers for Aceh, awaiting for
shipment
Swire
Shipping has a ship leaving in a week (19 January) with eight containers of
immediate relief aid, packed by volunteers on pallets ready for on-carriage to
Aceh. Pressure on shipping capacity prevented the consignment being taken
earlier.
The
shipping line offered its services free of charge, as did the container
services, port, stevedores, wharfees, the packing premises and cartage sub
contractors.
People
of Darwin donated mostly newly purchased items new like medical supplies,
clothing, boxes of disposable nappies - all the things mums and dads would
expect to be needed most in immediate relief.
There
were tents, canned food, towels, blankets, tools and bed mattresses - all
gathered together and made ready for shipping in less than a week.
Collection
coordinator Jann Goodworth said people brought camping gear, crockery, cutlery,
pots, pans, baby gear, plastics, tarpaulins, toys and sheets.
Darwin
Coldstores provided the assembly point and packing facilities, responding to
Darwin
Source (13 Jan):
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11891887%255E13569,00.html
In
"adopting" Meulaboh,
More (2 Feb):
http://phoenix.gov/NEWSREL/villhelp.html
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/northphoenix/articles/0126phx-tsunamidiaryZ3.html
The
Indonesian government plans 25 camps for Aceh province, four of them to be
built and administered by World Vision.
World
Vision's spokesperson for a camp already started was asked: "If you get
the feeling or you get evidence that people are being brought here against
their will or made to stay against their will, what do you do? Is there a point
at which you would simply pull out?"
Her
reply: "Absolutely! We can’t work in those circumstances."
Australians
have whole-heartedly supported the Prime Minister’s generosity to our neighbour
and his assessment, "This is the largest Muslim country in the world -
it’s our nearest neighbour and there’s a lot at stake."
But
big international agencies have no choice than to co-operate with the
Indonesian government if they’re to spend the tens of millions of dollars
they’ve raised in their world-wide tsunami appeals. You can’t spend a hundred
million dollars on tents and tarps and colouring books.
With
only 24 "relocation centres" planned, some people will be asked to
move a long way from their ruined homes. "They’re telling us we have to
stay away for a year," a villager exclaimed. "We won’t be able
to come home where we make out living from the sea."
Asked
why is it important to get people into fewer, larger camps, Indonesian Major
General Bambang Darmono said it was to secure them and concentrate
distribution. "To give them a fuel, to give them everything – to secure them,
to confirm, to ensure that food or everything (does) not run through, not go to
GAM (Aceh's separatist insurgents)," he said.
Talks
between GAM and the Indonesian Government, which began last weekend in
More (8 Feb):
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1297976.htm
Detailing
Aceh's west coast landing sites, UN
Earlier
story:
Singapore offers to build two medical clinics, a school and a barge pier
in Meulaboh.
Deputy
Prime Minister Tony Tan told the media that the plan would go before
UNJLC
intends to erect at least five Rubbhall demountable warehouse stores for the
expected inflow of reconstruction materials, at Meulaboh's port, where a barge
pier suitable for small RO-RO and conventional freighters should be installed
in 4 to 6 weeks, donated by
More
(2 Feb) http://www.todayonline.com/articles/33794.asp
Months of repairs before ports re-open
Delivery
of relief by merchant shipping is off to a modest start, with a chartered car
ferry delivering IOM and WFP aid into Banda Aceh, Calang and islands off
the west coast.
Banda
Aceh's port, Krueng Raya, still needs mobile port equipment to be brought in -
mobile cranes, forklifts, pallets and tarpaulins. Also, security.
The
time needed to repair Aceh's west coast ports is assessed to be at least six
months. Nine were destroyed, including Telo and Guning Sitoli on Nias island.
Four others are partially operational - Sinabang, Balohan, Haji and Banyak, but
will only be able to handle boats to 500 gross registered tonnes.
In
Meulaboh's bay, small boats have begun bringing in supplies using an old pier
while, on the beach, Singapore's sappers have established a site for landing
craft and will soon move to build a permanent jetty.
Distributing
relief by air is to the stage where helicopters use the local airfield, Maimun
Saleh. But without any air traffic control, they land as at six helipads
established around the shattered city.
Larger
air operations have only just extended from Banda Aceh to Sabang, where
Australian Hercules C130s have started landing. But it's restricted to day as
the airport has no lights. And cargo carrying capacity is down because of
return fuel. There are no immediate plans to establish airport re-fuelling
facilities.
Considered
useable subject to closer inspection, Sabang's port is on the main sea lane
from
Lhokseumawe
port has facilities of interest - two 80 m general cargo jetties, a bulk
fuel jetty and 2000 sq m storage. A ship can be maximum 175 m LOA with a 9.5 m
draft.
Source: www.unjlc.org - UNJLC
Bulletins 16 and 17, Thu 13 and Sat 15 Jan.
He
Chang-chui, FAO's regional chief for Asia and the Pacific region, told a
regional workshop in Bangkok, that reconstruction of tsunami-hit piers,
bridges, boats and houses would put pressure on the affected areas' remaining
forest reserves. Environmentalists have already warned that this is likely to
lead to more illegal logging in Aceh's
At
least three top Indonesian forestry and economic planning officials attended
the
More (7 March):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050307145805&irec=5
Mahdan
says he'd need 25 million rupiah ($2,737) to replace his old boat, an
impossible sum. "If I can't afford a new boat, I must go to the mountains
and grow something."
To
help people like this stunned fisherman, the US Agency for International
Development (AID) will unveil this week a job-creating
"cash-for-work" initiative," said Peter Morris, team leader for
the agency's Disaster Assistance Response Team.
Among
the first projects: a $63,000 grant to Muhammadiyah, a moderate Muslim group
that will employ 1,500 refugees to clean up schools in Banda Aceh. But with an
estimated 500,000 people displaced by the tsunami, and markets destroyed or
disrupted, the need for economic help is enormous.
"All
of them have lost their jobs. ... All the fishermen, all the traders, the
professionals, the small businessmen," says Jufri Mahmud, 42, who
coordinates the project for Muhammadiyah.
The
Muslim group plans to begin hiring on Feb. 1 for the one-month positions, which
will pay a daily cash wage of 35,000 rupiah ($3.83), Mahmud says.
More (25 Jan) http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-01-25-tsunami-econ-usat_x.htm
Naval
ships off shore had the capacity to produce 90,000 gallons (340 tonnes) of
fresh water a day - but no capacity to bottle it for the tens of thousands in
need.
Staff
from the Jakarta plant that makes a water cleaning solution helped in the
answer, with 6,200 collapsible water containers brought in the local markets
and air-lifted to Banda Aceh in a C-130 Hercules.
Helicopters
carried the containers to/from the navy ships for filling and NGOs and UN
Agencies distributed the water on the ground to displaced people.
An
estimated three quarters of displaced families also got a water purification
kit with sodium hypochlorite the active ingredient - a capful in a ten litre
plastic container of water purifies it.
The
staff took a week's production to Banda Aceh.
Producing
10,000 bottles a day, their plant is one of a number of modest production
establishments encouraged all around the developing world under a UN-sponsored
agency.
Source (11 Jan): US Agency for International Development, Palais
des Nations, UN,
Http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-4421-PHPSESSID-2563bf38f9101c6fc19fb7eaf6d0b409.html
The
Indian Army demonstrated practical action, despatching engineering teams for
repairs to boats and motors of fishing vessels badly damaged by Boxing Day's
tsunamis.
Military
columns joined voluntary organisations in the work. One stationed at MGR Thittu
island concentrated on retrieving boats washed ashore. Another centred on
Tsunami hit Nagapattinam area carried out repairs to out-board motors for
fisher-folk Akkaraipatti, while distributing rations around Perumalpettai,
Pudhupettai, Talampettai and Santhankudi.
Fishing
communties from Cuddalore area of Tamil Nadu got army help after a meeting
between army officials and trawler owners.
On
the other side of the world, the European Union was considering whether to ship
to
"My
services are currently exploring whether vessels are available, what state of
repair they are in and if they meet the needs of the fishing communities in the
tsunami-affected areas," European Commission chief
Closer
to the scene, the Australian Seafood Industry Council started work on a
so-called blueprint to provide a co-ordinated effort to tsunami-devastated
fishermen. "We want to ensure whatever support we provide is what is
needed, " was the statement made.
Sources:
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/asia_near_east/tsunami/index.html
After
the earthquake and tsunamis truck, a flotilla of Navy ships went to the region,
with aircraft carrier US Abraham Lincoln the centrepiece of Aceh's humanitarian
relief effort for over a month. The carrier had twice as many helicopters as
usual. Each flew three times the normal number of daily missions, totalling
1,737 missions and delivered 5.9 million pounds.
About
30 flight hours is the standard for a Seahawk pilot during a deployment. But
Pilot Commander Russ Thompson spent 96 hours in the air. He can't shake
thoughts of his first mission, a flight to the devastated
"I
have never seen destruction on that scale before. There were places where roads
just ended in the water," he said. "There were towns with nothing
existing anymore. All you could you see were a couple of scattered concrete
slabs and nothing else. No rubble. No people. No anything."
Airman
Emily Aleiwe notched her one-year anniversary in the Navy on Thursday, the day
before the
More
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/03/06/100loc_lincoln001.cfm
(Added
note about eviction: Eviction means
Foreigners’ incl aid workers visas run out 26 March – having to reapply in
With
17 helicopters already in Meulaboh, the area closest to the epicentre of the
earthquake, the
The
multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard carried about 50
tonnes of aid assistance for immediate delivery by helicopters, its landing
craft and air cushion hovercraft.
About
the same time, ship-based engineers boated across to RSS Endurance to help
carry out urgent running repairs; the ship took on more supplies from a US
coastguard vessel ferried in from Singapore; and on-board US medical
professionals were ashore to provide a much appreciated novelty in Meulaboh -
dental services.
Acting
as a base for planning logistical support, the ship hosted an Army Corps of
Engineers squad who entered the zone Tuesday to assess airfield and other
damage as well as routes into Meulaboh from Saleh,
They
have to get the roads, airfields and sea ports open to prepare Meulaboh as an
multimodal UN logistics hub.
Comprised
of FEST engineers (Forward Engineer Support Teams - Advanced), they comprise
team leaders, civil engineers, structural engineers and geo-technical engineers
- augmented by soldiers from the 249th Engineering Battalion (Prime Power) from
Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
The
US Naval assets off Aceh province will soon have the hospital ship USNS Mercy
in support. A converted San Clemente-class super tanker, she came from her
Mercy
is one of two US Navy hospital ships (sister ship USNS Comfort remains in
The
But
the goal remains for the Indonesian military to take over much of the
infrastructure work currently being done by foreign armies within that time.
Sources:
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=16601
http://www.ausaid.gov.au/media/release.cfm?BC=Media&Id=3464_2546_5121_4660_2994
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Numerous
island communities west of
During
last week, MV Barrenjoey joined the small vessels chartered to SurfAid, taking
a medical team to Laosilousi. It's one of many islands hit by the Boxing Day
tsunami which devastated island communities on the Nias and Hinako islands and
islands in the Sirombu and Mandrehe region.
Another
vessel MV Indies Trader II took a SurfAid team to three Hinako islands, where
measles and malaria have been found in high concentrations.
Villagers
there were found to be in poor health exacerbated by poor nutrition, having
been cut off from their normal source, the Sirombu market.
Indies
Trader is operated by surf charter operation, owned by Martin Daly, 47,
originally from Pittwater, who has been in
Mr
Daly and a former Bondi surfer,
The impetus for the boats came from
The
operation is run from the Hotel Batang Arau, leased by Mr Scurrah and Ms Fowler
for seven years and headquarters for their charter operation, Sumatran
Surfariis.
Earlier
(3 January), Mr Scurrah and his University of Sydney medical student sister,
Alyssa, 26, delivered the first boatload of food to the island of Nias, 127
kilometres from Sumatra, where SurfAid International estimates 272 were killed
and another 20,000 were victims of tsunami damage.
Since
then, four other boats financed by Australian charter operators have sailed
from the Sumatran port of Padang, one carrying medical supplies, five doctors
and a team of nurses, and three loaded with rice, vegetable oil and other food
purchased by Ms Fowler.
A
boat has been used to carry 60 tonnes of diesel fuel, and two Australian-owned
charter boats for carrying SurfAid teams of doctors from
The
boat project attracted financial pledges from
As
its name implies, SurfAid has strong links between island communities and
surfing enthusiasts from the
Having
operated four years already in the
The
direct implementation approach had already attracted strong working
relationships with local communities, local NGOs, regional, provincial and
central Health Departments and the World Health Organization (WHO).
SurfAid
recruited and mobilized a team of 40 with doctors, nurses, nutritionists,
community facilitators, researchers, interpreters, and communications,
logistics and management staff. There’s a disaster relief expert and
communications manager fluent in Indonesian.
Seed
funding from Quiksilver Foundation made it possible for SurfAid to more than
quadruple the help it originally intended after Boxing Day. Quiksilver
Sources: (1 Feb) http://www.surfaidinternational.org/site/pp.asp?c=ekLPK4MOIsG&b=275154
(6 Jan) SMH article by Philip Cornford
Computer
kiosks will be set up in refugee camps so people who are sick can receive top
advice from doctors remotely. The kiosks, which cost between A$30,000 and
A$40,000, include laptops, satellite terminals and telemedicine equipment.
The trial of the temporary medical kiosks is expected to begin this month
in Aceh.
Pradeep
Ray, of the University of NSW School of Information Systems, Technology and
Management, is co-leader of the project, which involves more than 100
researchers and doctors from
More
(8 March): http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12473042%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
"Fisherman
are usually in financially precarious situations to begin with; they are
small-scale businesses and rely on the sales of their daily catches," said
Professor Nandini Gunewardena. "Extended families historically helped
fisherman survive times of financial trouble."
"Fishing
communities, without reserves or savings, were the hardest hit in
Not
to be confused with the Hindu caste system, fishing in
To
add to their difficulties, the Sri Lankan government has ruled that homes
cannot be reconstructed closer than 100 yards from the beach. These fishermen,
said Gunewardena, were essentially squatters near the ocean and now have no
place to rebuild because they never owned land.
More
(10 Feb): http://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=20651
As
President of the British Red Cross, HRH Prince Charles visited the tsunami-hit
north-east coast of Sri Lanka on his way to Australia to see more than £300
million how donated by British people is being spent. These are some excerpts:
"I
was greatly encouraged to hear of the longer-term plans being implemented using
some of the money so generously donated by the British public. Over the next
three years the British Red Cross plans to spend up to £10 million on
rehabilitation work in
"I
have heard from several sources recently, in southern
"One
example of how the organisation is spending your donation is a programme in the
coastal region of Matara, in the south of the island, aimed at restoring the
livelihoods of the local fishing communities. This includes a ''Cash for Work''
programme, starting immediately - a short-term employment scheme targeting
those who have lost their income."
More (6 March):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/06/wtsun106.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/06/ixnewstop.html
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Previous week to 16 March
Aussie seminars for Aceh supply start 4 April
ADB prepares US$300m Asian Tsunami reconstruction funding
Indonesia impressed by Singapore’s ideal village for
tsunami survivors.
Software to manage many aid-funded small business loans
Rapid response team was self sufficient for immediate aid
work
Scheduled sea services for Aceh's west coast ports
WFP time charters led the way in the east
Indonesia assesses which aid organisations can stay
The
joint Austrade, AusAid and the Asian Development Bank seminars explaining bid
opportunities and procedures for Australian Government financed work in Aceh
are to be held in all capital cities during the week 4-8 April.
Some
big companies strong in the region like Bluescope Steel and Thiess Contractors are
ahead of the action using their Indonesian and aid organisation contacts. Three
aid organisations, including World Vision, have contracted BlueScope Steel to
supply 1500 steel buildings and 60 tonnes of steel roofs. And Red Cross has
commissioned Thiess Contractors to construct an office building in Bandar Aceh
worth A$500,000 to A$1million.
But
the companies said these were small contracts compared with what they hope to
come as
BlueScope
has begun a training program to help produce skilled workers in Aceh.
Perth-based
Clough has discussed with Indonesian authorities the engineering services
required in the rebuilding of infrastructure – roads, bridges, water treatment
plants and other utilities.
Boral
and CSR are among other big Australian companies with long-established
Indonesian presences which are also making corporate donations in goods and
services.
More (16 March):
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12557832%255E643,00.html
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Aceh's
cost for housing rehabilitation is estimated at $573 million. This breaks down
into $147 million to repair damaged homes and $426 million to build new ones,
according Asian Development Bank assessments made for the $300m ADB Asian
Tsunami Fund for rehabilitation and reconstruction purposes.
Apart
from material work, costs are looming up in the accounting of land ownership
compounded by loss of records. Also, the huge task before construction of
clearing building sites of debris.
Already
the official plan for reconstruction of dwellings is being questioned. An ADB
Housing and Urban Development Specialist queried the Indonesian planning
agency, BAPPENAS, whether its barrack-building policy was appropriate. At
US$ 2,460 each, the barracks’ 36 sq m family units are considered expensive and
of inadequate quality to resist earthquake damage.
ADB
suggested alternative mechanisms be considered like community-based housing,
private and public supply, self-help housing and NGO-provided housing.
BAPPENAS
also faces questions over its plans to meet water, sanitation and power needs
as well as basic services such as local transport, health, education and
community facilities.
BAPPENAS
is also unpopular with locals objecting to its two-kilometre coastal "security
belt" intended for mangrove swamps and fishponds to come between villages
and the sea.
More (15 March):
http://www.harolddoan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1577
Original source: Asian Development Bank release.
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Mercy
Relief is progressing a S$2m project to provide "proper housing" in a
20,000 square metre relocation village for 900 persons now in temporary
shelters.
With
nearly 500,000 homeless victims, Aceh is still in dire need of more such
villages.
Designed
by a
To
be completed within a year, its farmer villagers will be given plots of land to
grow crops.
Mercy
Relief chairman, Zulkifli Baharudin, said: "During the next three to six
months when we're building the infrastructure, we'll also bring a number of
social and recreational activities to the site.
Children
are really in need of some recreational activities, just go out and kick a ball
and play badminton. This is where even our sports personalities can be a very
important catalyst."
express
our gratitude on behalf of the Indonesian government, on behalf of the people
of Aceh, for the contribution and generosity of the people of
With
Singapore Red Cross, Mercy Relief is in a S$16m program to rebuild schools,
orphanages, a hospital and replace fishing boats.
More (12 March):
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/137055/1/.html
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A
Cleveland Ohio-based law firm has teamed with accounting software developers to
enable a massive increase in loans extended to tsunami-hit small businesses by
a firms specialising in business loans to poor people.
The
US$250,000 software rollout should put non-profit Opportunity International
Network in the vanguard of microfinance managed loans around US$200, made to
Aceh people involved in cooking, sewing and other small business re-starts.
Opportunity
International plans to increase its client base from 675,000 to over 1 million
by 2007. The new tools which replace the firm's Microsoft Excel-based financial
management system make it possible to take on the hundreds of small business
clients expected to be arranged with aid organisations.
As
part of its effort to aid the tsunami-affected regions, Opportunity
International has started with 1,000 clients in fishing villages in
It
intends helping as many as 10,000 clients in Aceh during that time.
More (11 March):
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/businessintelligence/story/0,10801,100343,00.html
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Not
even knowing that Aceh,
Its
fire-fighters, doctors and engineers returned this week reporting success in
all areas – immediate medical help, assessing exact needs first and work by the
engineers surveying roads, bridges and buildings, followed by clearing tsunami
debris from building sites.
"Our
exposure was very tragic, but also very heartening," spokesman Lt. Mark
Stone said. While the loss of life was staggering, he was impressed by the way
the survivors tried to get back to normal. "Everywhere we went, kids were
being kids. Grown-ups were going back to work and trying to do something. That
made us want to do it that much more."
The
team was like other rapid response teams in the Urban Search and Rescue group,
which typically have 74 people and six dogs.
Stone
said such teams had deployed to about 16 disasters in the
More (9 March):
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=47364&paper=73&cat=104
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A
UN
UNJLC
wants aid organisations to ship more by Aceh's coastal routes and will release
details "soon" based on chartering a 2000-tonne capacity RoRo
freighter/passenger ferry for 100 people and a 400-tonne capacity LCT (landing
craft).
This
would provide 10,800 tonnes capacity every five-day turnaround, loading the LCT
either at
Malahayati
port (Banda Aceh) or in Sabang port (Pulau Weh), which depends on the placement
of floating pontoons.
The
sea freight advantage was said to be US$106.66 a tonne compared with air cargo
at US$1308.80.
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World
Food Program has been using sea for general cargo for two months and currently
has three coastal freighters on time charter operating at the east coast ports
of Belawan and Malahayati. The ships are M/V Reulina, M/V Hanny and the M/V
Kimtrans, with contract shippers including Care, MSF, IDEP Foundation and other
casual shippers needing to book five days ahead.
UNJLC
issued a report detailing the increase in sea freight which has caused a
backlog in Customs clearance of shipping containers at Medan's port of Belawan
- where identified contacts are Mr Mohammad Rusdi (0812 60 93228) and Mr Frans
Tambunan (08153055358).
The
report talked up the security of goods going by sea compared to road,
commenting that sea piracy was not happening now.
It
said other potential capacity exists based on "the wealth of local sea
faring people available, and, sufficient numbers of vessels to cater for sea
freight charter arrangements".
UNJLC
asserted that sea transits to the west coast areas of
•
From Banda Aceh - Kulo Aceh 1 hour one way
•
From Banda Aceh - Lhong 1hour one way
•
From Banda Aceh -Calang 9 hours one way
•
From Banda Aceh – Teunom 13 hours one way
•
From Banda Aceh – Meulaboh 18 hours one way
The
UNJLC website can detail landing points and shore Hubs at Banda Aceh, Lamno,
Lho Kruet, Calang, Teunom and Meulaboh, where road access has improved
"faster than initially expected".
In
warehousing, WFP has some 26,000 tonnes of permanent warehouse capacity and an
additional 7,700 tonnes of temporary warehousing for store food items in Banda
Aceh, Lamno, Calang, Teunom, Meulaboh, Singkil,
Source (14 March):
http://www.unjlc.org/content/item.phtml?itemId=32479&nodeId=file4236eaa82e08c&fn=UNJLC_IOT_IDN_Sea%20Routes_050315.pdf
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Ahead
of the 26 March end to Aceh's crisis status, the Indonesian Government announced
only those aid organisations can stay that demonstrate "concrete
commitments to the reconstruction phase".
The
government agency Gol confirmed WFP's coordination role in emergency supply,
delivery and distribution of food distribution to an estimated 790,000 people,
with cooperating partners including the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), Save the
Children, Action Contre la Faim, CARE International, Mercy Corps, World Vision,
Catholic Relief Service and HELP.
A
planning atlas for the western part of the affected coast of
UNJLC
also has a general logistics map for issue covering Aceh and
Banda
Aceh Customs has new procedures for clearing goods depending on whether they
are humanitarian aid, non-consumable assets or other items - details to be
released on Friday 18 March.
The
Lamno - Banda Aceh road re-opened on Sunday 13 March.
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UN Joint Logistics Committee Bulletin 27
Customs seminar to address goods tracking and armed
escorts
Possible argument for log and timber imports to Aceh
Relief phase over, it's time for even harder work
US carrier's air crew recall experiences in Aceh
Extended families need a boat and a sewing machine
Partnerships could stimulate corporate donations
Aceh camps first to try medical help from computer links
Camps have therapy for tsunami-traumatised children
Aceh's
west coast landing sites were detailed and, among port updates, UNJLC noted Singapore
military's plan to rebuild the pier at Meulaboh had been abandoned due to low
draft.
All
coastal locations south of Meulaboh have had their road connections to Medan
restored and the road between Banda Aceh and Lamno is open to vehicles up to 20
tonnes.
Bailey
bridges have helped restore a number of inland routes to 15 tonne traffic. The
UNJLC website has details of current route logistics and maps.
In
the foreign military pullback, Australian troops are completely withdrawing
from Banda Aceh this week. A few foreign military activities continue. Two
Mexican naval ships are offloading relief supplies in the main centres and
committing several weeks to assist in water sanitisation projects. One has a
medical team with 44 doctors which will add to the aid being given by the
hospital ship USNS Mercy still offshore.
Civilian
authorities are planning resumption of responsibilities. The governor of
Aceh province formally opened the public consultation process on the master
plan for the reconstruction of Aceh, soliciting input from Acehnese civil
society, academics and others who wish to participate.
The
consultations are being conducted by BAPPEDA (the provincial planning
board). Key themes/areas include: land/spatial planning, finance, the
economy & labour, the environment, infrastructure, law, security and
reconciliation, institutional systems, accountability and governance, religion
social, culture and human resources. And the Network of Regional Government for
Sustainable Development (NRG4SD) has a summit at Lake Toba, North Sumatra from
10-12 March 2005.
A
Customs seminar will be held in Banda Aceh at the UN complex next Tuesday 15
March 2005 at 9am, following next week's UNJLC weekly logistics coordination
meeting. Indonesian authorities will attend to respond on their new
requirements for document-based tracking of goods and TNI (army) escorts on all
deliveries.
COMPAS,
Commodity Processing Analysis System, has been up and running to track the
movements of commodities in Medan, Banda Aceh, Meulaboh and Jakarta. Further
instalment of COMPAS is planned in Lamno and Calang.
UNJLC's
warehousing update described Lhokseumawe's facilities including at in the city
and at Krueng Geukueh port, while warehousing in Malahayati (Aceh Besar) is
about to get six more wiikhalls demountable stores, with 10 more now ready at
Banda Aceh airport for setting up in other locations along Aceh's west coast.
UN
has the support of North Sumatra's Governor to try to alter the Indonesian
Government requirement that, from 26 March, all aid workers on "visa on
arrival" which expire must exit Indonesia and secure a 422 visa in
Singapore.
More: (9 March):
www.unjlc.org
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He
Chang-chui, FAO's regional chief for Asia and the Pacific region, told a
regional workshop in Bangkok, that reconstruction of tsunami-hit piers, bridges,
boats and houses would put pressure on the affected areas' remaining forest
reserves. Environmentalists have already warned that this is likely to lead to
more illegal logging in Aceh's Leuser National Park - one of the archipelago's
last remaining unexploited forest reserves.
At
least three top Indonesian forestry and economic planning officials attended
the Bangkok meeting, which attracted more than 50 participants from seven of
the tsunami-affected countries. The meeting aimed at mapping guidelines for the
effective rehabilitation of eco-systems in the tsunami-struck areas.
More (7 March):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp?fileid=20050307145805&irec=5
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"I
hate to say it, but the hard work is yet to come," said US Agency for
International Development's Mark Ward. The relief phase is over - now it’s
the time for reconstruction. This would take years, he said, to rebuild roads
and schools and repair clinics and other buildings.
On
Thursday, more than 100 Red Cross and UN officials met in Hong Kong to plan
long-term reconstruction, estimated to cost $12 billion to $15 billion in
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and the Maldives. Red Cross officials told
reporters they have raised about $1.7 billion.
Former
presidents George Bush (senior) and Bill Clinton Bush raided an estimated $700
million on tour and President George W Bush has asked Congress to give another
$950 million to tsunami relief.
More (6 March):
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2005/03/06/texas_news/iq_1766196.txt
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After
the earthquake and tsunamis truck, a flotilla of Navy ships went to the region,
with aircraft carrier US Abraham Lincoln the centrepiece of Aceh's humanitarian
relief effort for over a month. The carrier had twice as many helicopters as
usual. Each flew three times the normal number of daily missions, totalling
1,737 missions and delivered 5.9 million pounds.
About
30 flight hours is the standard for a Seahawk pilot during a deployment. But
Pilot Commander Russ Thompson spent 96 hours in the air. He can't shake
thoughts of his first mission, a flight to the devastated village of Keude
Tenom. "As soon as we landed, a hundred people materialized out of nowhere,"
he said. As the crew started throwing supplies to the crowd, Thompson saw an
old woman standing with a baby on her hip at the edge of the mob. "And I
just saw people carting away all these bags of rice. I was really hoping that
some would make its way to her."
"I
have never seen destruction on that scale before. There were places where roads
just ended in the water," he said. "There were towns with nothing
existing anymore. All you could you see were a couple of scattered concrete
slabs and nothing else. No rubble. No people. No anything."
Airman
Emily Aleiwe notched her one-year anniversary in the Navy on Thursday, the day
before the Lincoln returned to its home port in Everett. An administrative
assistant, Aleiwe was one of about 2,000 crew members who went ashore as
volunteers. They did the grunt work: hauled water, stacked medical supplies and
moved 50-pound bags of rice from trucks to helicopters at the Banda Aceh
airport.
More Lincoln crew cameos (6 March):
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/03/06/100loc_lincoln001.cfm
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As
President of the British Red Cross, HRH Prince Charles visited the tsunami-hit
north-east coast of Sri Lanka on his way to Australia to see more than £300
million how donated by British people is being spent. These are some excerpts:
"I
was greatly encouraged to hear of the longer-term plans being implemented using
some of the money so generously donated by the British public. Over the next
three years the British Red Cross plans to spend up to £10 million on
rehabilitation work in Sri Lanka.
"I
have heard from several sources recently, in southern India and Sri Lanka, that
what coastal people want is the chance to return to the sea to earn a living –
so restoring people's livelihoods must surely be the first priority. For
instance, it costs only £500 to provide a team of three fishermen with a basic
boat and to provide his wife or daughter with a sewing machine costs £125.
"One
example of how the organisation is spending your donation is a programme in the
coastal region of Matara, in the south of the island, aimed at restoring the
livelihoods of the local fishing communities. This includes a ''Cash for Work''
programme, starting immediately - a short-term employment scheme targeting
those who have lost their income."
More (6 March):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/06/wtsun106.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/03/06/ixnewstop.html
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Preliminary
findings on the soon-to-be-released Federal Government study "Giving
Australia: Research on Philanthropy in Australia" show corporate Australia
is still extremely wary of non-government organisations and their
effectiveness.
Partnerships
could help overcome this, but there needs to be pubic debate - according to
Philanthropy Australia's national director, Elizabeth Cham.
Businesses
reported feeling overwhelmed by the number of requests for help they receive
and by their inability to manage these and discriminate among them. Creating
schemes and programs which give businesses direct links with recipients and
with the charities should help address this problem.
In
the US, enormous charitable foundations exist which bring pressure to bear on corporations
by exercising shareholder votes. This is not yet the case here, but it could be
coming. Since the Government's tax changes, 248 new foundations have been set
up. These will grow in wealth and in shareholder clout.
The
business community was also found to generally lack awareness of tax benefits
like for staff donations made under the Workplace Giving program and deductions
and capital gains tax exemptions allowed for bequests and donations.
More (4 March):
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12432104%255E28737,00.html
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Computer
kiosks will be set up in refugee camps so people who are sick can receive top
advice from doctors remotely. The kiosks, which cost between A$30,000 and
A$40,000, include laptops, satellite terminals and telemedicine equipment.
The trial of the temporary medical kiosks is expected to begin this month
in Aceh.
Pradeep
Ray, of the University of NSW School of Information Systems, Technology and
Management, is co-leader of the project, which involves more than 100
researchers and doctors from Britain, Australia, Japan, Korea, India,
Indonesia, Bhutan, Greece and France. The multimillion-dollar project is a
joint initiative of Technologie sans Frontiers, the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers and the International Telecommunication Union, which oversees
telecommunications development in developing countries for the UN.
More (8 March):
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,12473042%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
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Village
headman Muhamad Nurdin told the mission aid workers what happened on Boxing
Day. "We were looking at the damage caused by the earthquake on December,
26th. Suddenly, the sea went back from the coast round about 200 metres.
And then a huge wave came, as big as a mountain."
His
wife and but two of his five children were killed. To those that outran the
wave it seemed like Judgement Day. "I started to pray and then I
heard my daughter calling me." Eleven year old Nurlisma had survived by
clinging to a tree.
The
aid workers from Church World Service (Indonesia) and sister organisation
Norwegian Church Aid are helping survivors with clean water and sanitation services
at nine camps. Established inland from the devastated Banda Aceh - Meulaboh
coastal strip, their green military tents look empty, as many of the people now
participate in a government cash-for-work programme repairing the coastal road,
paid 35.000 Rupiahs ($4) a day.
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A
Jakarta-based organisation is providing therapeutic services at Aceh's many
temporary shelters, and training for therapy specialists.
"Therapy
helps children to forget their traumatic experiences temporarily, so that they are
not haunted by nightmares of when they were separated from their parents and
relatives," said National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas Anak)
chairman, Seto Mulyadi.
Children
need to forget their bitter experiences, he said. A child who grows up in times
of war will tend to solve problems with violence. Therefore, Seto wants the
Indonesian government to hasten work on establishing emergency policies,
prioritizing protection, facilitating education and ensuring health care.
More (7 March):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050306.B01&irec=2
Since
the government has banned adoption for orphaned Acehnese children, the remaining
option is foster care. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working
with the government, including the Ministry of Social Affairs and the State
Minister of Women's Empowerment, to develop an active plan to rehabilitate
these children. UNICEF estimates that around 7,000 children have been separated
from their families, and that the first step to rehabilitation is to reunite
these children with their surviving family members. "We have set up around
17 children's centres in Aceh, and we're planning to build three more,"
UNICEF spokeswoman Kendartati Subroto told The Jakarta Post.
More (7 March):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailnational.asp?fileid=20050306.B02&irec=3
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UN Joint Logistics Bulletin 26 dated 1 March
Allah stays in charge - a stand-up comedian considers
becoming a preacher
Work the best therapy say owners re-opening businesses in
Banda Aceh
Public aid outpouring puts aid organisations on notice
for new methods
Banks, UN and aid organisations drive for job creation
ahead of government strategy due end March
UPC calls for household items and help re-establishing
clean water and electricity
First the clean up and restoring clean water
Swiss finance for the homeless, fishing reconstruction
and restoring clean water
UN procurement update: Registering in UN Global
Marketplace
UNJLC
is strengthening its links with local government, police and the KODAM (Area
Military Command) ahead of Indonesia's planned 26 March transfer of
responsibility to civilian authority.
In
Banda Aceh it will work with the local planning agency BAPEDA and with Gol,
whose requests for ship and other transport assets go through Indonesia's
Department of Transport.
In
the southern supply centre Medan almost all foreign military assets have left,
but Malaysian C130 flights continue for goods which are on-carried to Banda
Aceh and Meulaboh.
The
deferred import tariffs system during the crisis period is now changing to
exemptions issued on applications from with importers. In other government
procedures, the Immigration Office in Medan has asked for authority to grant 6-month
social visas. Otherwise the system is as In Banda Aceh where 14-day visa
extensions are stamped on foreign identity cards issued by the police.
Aid organisations' vehicles must also now be registered.
On
road conditions, UNJLC reports bridging repairs on Medan /Meulaboh route will
raise capacity to 20 tonnes. Meulaboh to Banda Aceh will likely remain as a
'6-wheel' stretch due to incursions of the sea and bridges washed away - a full
report on www.unjlc.org.
In
air operations, UNJLC has negotiated an 'almost free of charge' with Garuda for
freight movement on Jakarta / Banda Aceh and Jakarta /Medan routes - bookings
described in www.unjlc.org
A
document express service is now in place between Jakarta and Banda Aceh.
On
Meulaboh /Banda Aceh air route, a Malaysian C130 flight carried pallet freight
and the Twin Otter made its first three flights. GOI and TNI continued to seek
short fixed landing strip sites in between - around Lamno, Calang and Teunom.
UNJLC
is trying to reduce forms to one each for passenger and cargo movements.
World
Vision has two Hueys operated by Air Serv for service free of charge booked
with Guillaume on mobile 0815 9802 860, while Oxfam is investigating
cost-sharing with other aid organisations for the two helos that they may wish
to re-contract.
Airserv
offers flight services Monday, Wednesday and Friday flights between Banda
Aceh andSingapore (Selatan), Meulaboh /Medan, Lhokseumawe/Banda Aceh and Banda
Aceh / Sabang - see schedule at www.unjlc.org.
The
446 kms road from the provincial border to Ujung Karang, Meulaboh's port, is
included a full report on Aceh province roads condition, soon to be
followed by a focus on roads around West coast centres. Meantime a satellite image
road map of Meulaboh is to be available at the Banda Aceh, Medan, Meulaboh and
Jakarta UNJLC offices.
For
warehouses, see www.unjlc.org covering locations, capacities and availability.
UNJLC's
ports update isn't until next week.
More (1 March): www. unjlc.org
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In
Aceh the survival of mosques in destroyed villages was seen as an injunction
from Allah to pray. Remarkably few survivors were angry towards God at what had
happened to them. Most were too involved with the sheer gritty business of
survival to ask why.
People
seized on even the smallest glimpse of domestic mundanity - a corner of a
mirror hung on a smashed wall, a favourite shirt salvaged from the rubble, a
cricket bat retrieved from a broken tree - to ground them in an uncertain
world.
Aceh's
best-known stand-up comedian of 40 years considered his future. "My
vocation has been making people laugh," said Mahudin Ismael, 60. “
do social and political satire, word plays, imitations of Charlie Chaplin and
Tommy Cooper, and make noises that sound like real ones. That's how I got my
nickname, Udin the Gun. I do a great AK47 and always start my show with an
imitation gunfight like in the Spaghetti Westerns, in which I play all the
characters and do all the noises. It's a classic and I've done it all over
Indonesia and even in Malaysia and on local and national television.
"But
I'm not going to do comedy any more. I've given it up. How can you in the face
of this kind of event? I am going to be a preacher or something. I can't be a
comedian any more. How can I make people laugh? You can't ignore this happening
and use the same old material."
Source, with numerous other character cameos (27 Feb):
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1424420,00.html
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Nurhayati,
a shop owner and mother of eight who lost her elderly parents and sister to the
giant wave, has recently reopened her furniture store. It's in one of two
buildings still standing on the block. She boldly advertises new stock for
sale. For the hard-up she offers sodden half-price mattresses that her sons
have dragged outside to dry.
As
head of Banda Aceh's midwife association, Erni Nurdin used to train nurses at
her private clinic in the same district as Nurhayati's furniture store. Her
eldest daughter was due to graduate in January with a medical degree. But the
tsunami carried away her three daughters and husband.
One
month ago, though, she rented a shop across town and put up a hand-painted sign
that reads "Midwife Erni." With help from her son, and using donated
medicines, Nurdin opened her clinic last week and has received a steady stream
of old and new patients.
"I
want to work and work and never stop to think. I don't even want to sleep. I
don't want to think about my house and my children," she says.
At
night, teenagers weave through honking traffic on noisy motorbikes, drowning
out the muezzin's call from the city's numerous mosques. It's a far cry from
the initial scenes of devastation wrought by the massive earthquake and
subsequent tsunami that struck on 26 December.
Bodies
are still being recovered from the rubble, but aid workers say the clean-up has
gone better than many had expected, filling the stricken population with new
energy and optimism, and encouraging many who fled to return.
"The
fact that the streets were full of corpses [before] had a huge impact on
people. It was a reminder of everything that had happened to them. It's very
important that society can pick up and go forward," says Jesper Lund, a
relief coordinator for the United Nations. "Banda Aceh is alive today
because people have the will to move on."
For
impatient tsunami victims and many foreign aid groups, though, Jakarta's
dithering arouses anger and frustration. Along the west coast of Aceh, where
aid has flowed more slowly than in the capital, several thousand destitute
villagers wait in tent camps for rebuilding to start. Outside the town of
Lamno, one family has built a tiny windowless shelter on the foundations of
their old house, a mile inland.
Squinting
against the sun, Mariati says her carpenter husband is scavenging wood to build
a new house so her family of seven can leave their tent in a refugee camp. She
shakes her head at the idea of moving into another temporary shelter while the
government decides what to do with her village, in which no solid structure
remains. "I don't want to live anywhere else.... Why can't we live in a
tent here? Then my husband can keep working," she says.
Experts
say resolving these and other conflicts will stretch both Indonesia's
government and the international community, which will be funding much of the
reconstruction. "We have avoided the worst-case scenarios ... and the
emergency stage is over. But in terms of providing shelter and livelihoods, we
are very much in the early stages," says Hafiz Pasha, UN assistant
secretary-general who heads a tsunami taskforce.
Rather
than waiting around, many residents are trying hard to keep busy.
Meanwhile,
the military pullout called for 26 March, the same day as Indonesia intends
issuing its formal reconstruction plan, is down to the last leavers - with
Japan's 1,000 soldiers to leave on 10 March then Australia and New Zealand.
Source (1 Mar):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0301/p06s01-woap.html
Japanese soldiers worked with the UN Children's Fund and the Indonesian Health
Ministry. They gave thousands of measles vaccinations and vitamin A supplements
to children.
More (28 Feb):
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/28/news/japan.html
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"Normally,
the United Nations, the NGOs, the Red Cross movement, the donor aid agencies,
and the World Bank do rapid assessments; then they produce a plan with a
budget; then they make an appeal," said Geneva-based US Agency for
International Development administrator, Andrew Natsios.
"Here,
the pledges were made first, and then we did the assessments, and then we did
the response. We need to re-order this now so that what’s on the ground meets
the enormous generosity which is being expressed by people around the world."
"The
agricultural land has been so salinated it will be unusable for one to two
years, which means that for farmers, there needs to be some assistance in
helping with livelihoods for that time period.”
Natsios
reinforced the demand pull approach that aid organisations should now consider,
which has their people in the field pulling in resources from donor governments
and central governments as they are needed on the ground.
"We
don't want to be pushing supply on them.”
An
Oxfam worker in the US was reported similarly in http://ephilanthropy.org
"These
were almost all unsolicited donations. We hadn’t had time to reach out to our
donor base, but people were still giving. Loyal followers of Oxfam, one-time
$35 donors, people who’d never heard of Sri Lanka or Oxfam – they were all
tracking us down – online, by phone, or through other means – and then they
were giving. In very generous amounts. And they weren’t waiting for an appeal
from us."
"A
typical online appeal will bring in $50,000-$100,000," he continues.
"But for this emergency, we needed a whole new yardstick. For a few days
between Christmas and New Year’s, we were taking in over two million dollars a
day. And that’s just online. (Our phones – I should mention -- were constantly
ringing for close to two weeks.) When things finally ‘calmed down,’ we still
were taking in about $100,000 a day."
Aid
agencies have now reached the stage of establishing micro lines of credit to
small businesses. In the micro-finance lending network in Banda Aceh, 13 of the
14 fourteen offices were completely destroyed and all the staff killed, so only
one of the fourteen offices still functions.
Natsios
expected USAID would provide technical people and predicted a role for the
World Bank in the coordination of the reconstruction, but emphasised that
reconstruction would be under the authorisation and control and the tsunami-hit
countries themselves.
About
the $10 million dollar cash for work program, he said it's very important to
get money back into people’s pocket. "Markets won’t get recreated unless
there is demand by people to buy things. And we want the private markets to
function. Because as much as we like the relief commodities, the best way for
people to support themselves is to purchase things on the market. So the best
thing we can do is to put people’s money, small amounts of money, in each
family’s pockets.
He
foresaw the reliance this would put on women. "Usually we try to rely on
the women, who are the heads of households, to be the caretaker of the
funding," he said. "We did this very successfully after the
Mozambican floods in the late 90s. We gave $100 to 90,000 households to the
women who were the heads of the households, and we checked later what they did
with the money. The rebuilt their mud huts. They bought windows and doors and
wood for their roofing material. They bought clothing because all the clothing
was destroyed. They bought furniture for their houses and they paid school fees
for their children, which is exactly what we wanted them to do with the money.
"But
they did it on their own. There was not a big bureaucracy involved. Very low
overhead rates. And many of us who do disaster response realized that direct
amounts of money to the people themselves is the best response because they
know what they need themselves. And I think there is a general agreement among
my colleagues who are development ministers in other countries that this
approach we need to consider very seriously here."
Source:
http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-4421-PHPSESSID-2563bf38f9101c6fc19fb7eaf6d0b409.html
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Three
Indonesian banks have agreed in principle to aid organisations providing
financial guarantees in support of small business redevelopment schemes.
Representatives
from Bank Syariah Mandiri, Bukopin Bank and Bank Rakyat Indonesia addressed aid
organisations on micro-finance, in presentations organised by UN's Livelihood
and Recovery Working Group which resulted in guidelines for micro-finance and
grant-making.
At
the same time, mapping started on which aid organisations are doing what/where
in small business development, with the intention of making a
multi-organisational assessment of funding needs and how to plug gaps in
recovery needs.
The
resulting initiatives will be planned with the Indonesian Government's overall
recovery strategy in mind, due to be available by the end of March.
Thress
other UN agencies, the UNDP, FAO and ILO are going ahead with local authorities
and aid organisation partners in conducting livelihood surveys and
employment registration. They have issued leaflets about employment services
such as short-cycle training programmes on establishing and developing small
enterprises.
Training
of Trainers (TOT) courses for women and men with practical business experience
have been advertised in ILO leaflets issued in cooperation with Indonesia's
Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration, in both Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Particular emphasis is being placed on courses to help women who traditionally
head Aceh households.
There
will be short vocational training courses offered in upgrade existing skills
and provide new ones meeting labour market needs and shortages.
Cash-for-Work
teams that cleared Banda Aceh's hospital and university have moved onto clearing
out the water and sewage system.
Some
80 former residents in Kampung Kramet are clearing their area of about 23
hectares, with 40,800 cubic meters of debris moved to date.
UNDP
has agreements ready with six air organisations to start Cash-for-Work projects
in a number of other districts outside Banda Aceh over the next six months.
These should employ another 11,000.
In
water sanitisation, UNICEF has agreed to take the lead in coordinating watsan
efforts and will prepare a plan of action with the support of IOM.
More
(1 Mar):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6A3JQS?OpenDocument
According
to latest figures released by the National Coordinating Board for the Management
of Disaster and IDPs/Refugees (BAKORNAS PBP), 123,597 bodies have been buried,
113,937 are missing and 400,901 are displaced in Aceh Province. There are 12 UN
agencies operating in the provinces in cooperation with central and local
government to provide assistance.
More including for other tsunami-hit areas in Indonesia: OCHA
Humanitarian Update Feb 2005
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6A389Z?OpenDocument
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Urban
Poor Consortium has called for urgent help supplying rebuilt dwellings with
household goods, and has also called for water and sanitation assistance and
help re-establishing electricity.
In
addition, support will be needed to carry out necessary water and soil
assessments at its sites to ensure that they are still suitable for permanent
reconstruction.
The
Aceh-based NGO is assisting 3,059 people who would like to immediately resettle
at the sites of their former homes in 13 villages in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar.
UPC
said local government and Jakarta officials from the Ministry of Public Works
had agreed that displaced people who wish to stay and rebuild on their former
home sites are allowed to do so.
Currently,
the majority of households UPC is working are in self-constructed transitional
shelters made from recyclable materials. As of 26 February, 400 people had
already moved into their transitional shelters at the site of their family
home. The movement of all 3,059 people to such sites is expected to be complete
by 15 March.
Meanwhile
Indonesian Government initiatives are progressing with the construction of 997
temporary location centres called baraks, each housing 60 people, for a total
70,000 to be housed for not more than two years. To date 397 baraks have been
constructed.
OCHA
undertook a brief assessment tour of 10of the baraks on 25 February, afterwards
recommending that aid organisations undertake a survey of future camps and
monitor existing camps for case by case adherence to SPHERE standards.
Occupants of the TLCs should be surveyed to identify their concerns and needs
with the aim of reducing vulnerability and assisting recovery and
rehabilitation.
More (1 Mar):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6A3JQS?OpenDocument
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Reliefweb
also reported on the latest UN Joint Logistics Committee bulletin, saying UNJLC
will assess the possibility of establishing a freight and passenger ferry
service along the west coast of Aceh.
This
is to replace air operations currently performed with UNHAS's five
helicopters and Twin Otter fixed wing aircraft which have been transporting
passengers since 18 February between Medan, Meulaboh and Banda Aceh - three
days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays).
UNJLC
has also deployed more logistics officers, with two now to help aid
organisations in Calang and Meulaboh. Specific local needs also to be addressed
there are the basis services of water and fuel, vehicle maintenance services
and transport in Calang, while Meulaboh needs an assessment of road conditions
and repair plans.
UNJLC
is also translating and seeking clarification on new instructions issued by the
Indonesian Customs authorities, which include a letter of permission to bring
relief goods in to Aceh.
For
the full bulletin see www.unjlc.org including useful websites/contact network,
or see them on
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6A3JQS?OpenDocument
Australia
is to provide A$300,000 to help rebuild Aceh's immigration offices - see (28
Feb):
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Aceh-immigration-offices-to-be-rebuilts/2005/02/28/1109546796492.html
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A
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report said Aceh's groundwaters,
bore holes and aquifers have been contaminated not just by salt water, but also
bacteria as a result of sea water infiltration and damage to toilets, septic tanks
and other sanitation systems. Rural water systems have been badly affected with
an estimated 60,000 wells and 15,000 hand pumps contaminated, damaged or
destroyed.
All
28,000 hectares of coastal irrigation schemes in Aceh were severely impacted.
Soil fertility will be affected in the short to medium term as a result of salt
water contamination. Rice crops in the western islands of Indonesia were seen
to be yellowing in the fields within three weeks of the disaster.
UNEP
estimated that Banda Aceh has between seven and ten million cubic metres of
waste to clear. The earthquakes left Aceh with a lot more to do than
tsunami-hit areas nearby, like Thailand's Phi Phi Islands which has already
cleared almost half an estimated 35,000 tonnes of debris [roughly 100,000 cubic
metres].
More
in report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Web: www.unep.org
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Switzerland's
three Super Pumas and 50 military personnel returned home, handing over aid
responsibility to the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
SDC
is leading a scheme to provide shelter to tsunami homeless families, through
cash offers to families with homes in Sri Lanka and Indonesia who will take
them in. Some 100,000 could benefit from the scheme due to start first in Sri
Lanka in the next two weeks. It's also rebuilding three fishing villages on the
islands of Koh Kho Khao and Koh Phra Thong in southern Thailand, to be followed
by reconstruction of schools, health centres, jetties and houses for the
fishermen, which the Swiss will supervise.
But
SDC's biggest focus remains on restoration of water supply in Banda Aceh and
Meulaboh. The cleaning of some 200 wells so far hasn't been easy. After
cleaning, the wells get dirty again from salty water and other things that wash
in, so one cleaning is never enough.
More (27 Feb):
http://www.nzz.ch/2005/02/27/eng/article5564934.html
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Updated
what was reported in Supply, "The UN is on an Australian drive, inviting
online registration via www.ungm.org into its Global Marketplace database, free
of charge. The applicant must nominate at least one UN organisation, which
considers the registration and recommends if it be accepted or not. Two of the
most important considerations are being an established exporter and having at
least three years in business. Asked if there might be a quick way to determine
which UN organisation to nominate, Christian Saunders said, "Just email me
at saundersc@un.org".
Welcome
to the UN Global Marketplace! it says in
http://www.ungm.org/UnccsCodeView.aspx
In
order to register on the database please fill in your details below. Once you
have done so and clicked on the "Submit registration" button your
logon details will be sent to you by email.
First
name
Last name
Email (please enter one address only)
Title
Position
Country
To
find a code you can either: 1. Enter a search word(s) into the "UNCCS
Description" field below and click on the "Search" button or 2.
Browse the UNCCS hierarchy manually by clicking on the + buttons and descending
through the sections.
To
select a code double click on the yellow folder belonging to it or click on the
"Select code" button.
The supplier database on the UN Global Marketplace, it says in
http://www.ungm.org/AboutUncsd.aspxis
Available to all UN and World Bank procurement personnel, this is the main
supplier database of the following UN organisations:
IAEA-
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAPSO- Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office
ILO - International Labour Organisation
ITC - International Trade Centre (UNCTAD/World Trade Organisation)
UN/PS - United Nations Procurement Service
UNDP - United Nations Development Program
UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
UNHCR - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNOPS - United Nations Office for Project Services
UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency
WFP - World Food Program
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
The
United Nations, including its many affiliated organisations, represents a
global market of approximately USD 5 billion annually for all types of goods
and services. The UN Global Marketplace acts as a single window, through which
the business community may register with the UN system, providing an excellent
springboard to introduce your goods and services to many UN organisations,
countries and regions. The database facilitates the interchange of supplier
information within the UN system as information is made available to all UN
organisations, and it acts as an important procurement tool to shortlist
suppliers for competitive bidding.
Please
note, however, that even though the UN Global Marketplace is open to all
procurement staff, some organisations do have their own supplier database.
Therefore, it is important that potential suppliers also register with UN
agencies that do not directly support the UN Global Marketplace. For links to
other UN organisations please see the Links tab on the ungm.org website.
It
is also important to note that registering on the UN Global Marketplace does
not guarantee that your company will win contracts with the UN. The UN Global
Marketplace Secretariat recommends that you take an active role in marketing
your capabilities directly to appropriate UN organisations just as you would in
other customer environments. You may wish to refer to the UN General Business
Guide to learn which UN organisations purchase the goods or services your
company supplies. The Guide describes the procurement needs, procedures and
contact details for all UN organisations. Also, the Inter-Agency Procurement
Service Office (IAPSO) has developed a booklet with practical tips on how to do
business with the UN. They can both be downloaded from http://www.iapso.org/information/publications.asp
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Increased use of sea transport in UN Joint Logistics
Committee latest update
Military pullback in the final stages
Aceh's people demographics and how Aceh Christians got
spared
US missionaries help Thai fishing villages
Thai fishing communities rebuilding on stilts
Aceh people move from tents to camps
Jakarta intent on resettling Aceh's survivors outside the
cities
Mercy Corps sticks to rehousing and creating jobs locally
Oxfam expands cash for work programs
Increased cement-making planned by France's Lafarge Group
Asian Development Bank establishing multi-donor fund
Big business bias: Media not investigating deeply enough
Great donation but wrong kind of boats
FAO assesses damage to fishing livelihoods
Fishing livelihoods assessment: FAO's latest information:
Sri Lanka's fishermen stood up by banks
The
World Food Program now controls two cargo vessels of 3,000-ton and 4,500-ton
capacity in northern Aceh, being used as offshore floating warehouses -supported
by two 400-ton landing craft for lightering the cargo ashore.
But
UNJLC assessments indicate that sea assets are currently only used at 20-30%
efficiency. So a UNJLC Sea Expert is "to identify the sea assets available
to the humanitarian aid community and establish a User Group in order to seek
to optimise use of these assets, especially in the context where use of air
assets (helo) may become increasingly restrictive".
On
land, WFP's delivery effort is supported by 32 permanent and temporary warehouses,
more than 200 trucks 60 light vehicles. Six WFP Rubbhalls demountable
warehouses are being provided to the Department of Social Welfare. Four have
arrived in Calang, Teunom, Lamno and Lhong. Two more will be delivered to Patek
and Panga.
Long
distance road operations are stronger, too. IOM, which has its own delivery
truck system for local distribution around Banda Aceh, is now using more than
300 long haul trucks on the JKT-Medan-BA and Medan-Meulaboh routes and on new
routes where links to Lhokseumawe and Bireun are re-established.
In
military road rebuilding,
TNI
continues to improve the route by constructing temporary bridging (single lane
Bailey and non-standard bridging) placing a stone base layer on new road
alignments, and placing additional culverts. Much of the repaired route is
single lane, and all temporary bridging being placed is single lane. TNI have
set the target of opening the entire route from Banda Aceh to Meulaboh.
Realigned road segments are often through difficult terrain, with steep single
lane sections.
More: www.unjlc.org
Bulletin no. 24 -
French
helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc was among more foreign military assets departing
the region. It arrived in
More (18 Feb:)
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=17110&name=French+warship+ends+aid+mission+to+Indonesia
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Meulaboh's
Muslims are questioning why so many Muslims died while not even one of the
The
tsunami catastrophe rendered homeless some 400,000 people in Aceh - with
villages destroyed, infrastructure was demolished, diseases spread, and, worse,
countless numbers "psychologically traumatized.’’
Of
a population of 3,398,900 in year 2000, almost all were Muslim while just a
handful practiced Buddhism, Hinduism, or
Of
all the provinces in
Aceh
is a gas-and-oil rich
In
1976, the armed struggle of Acehnese against
The
Acehnese pride themselves with their district Acehnese identity which was
formed as early as the 16th century when Aceh emerged as an independent
sultanate. Since then up to this date, fierce fighting has continued between
the Indonesian military and the Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM).
Only
the tsunami catastrophe that devastated Aceh stopped the fighting temporarily.
A temporary ceasefire has been declared since both the Indonesian military and
GAM are involved in humanitarian relief activity to rehabilitate Aceh.
More (20 Feb):
http://www.mb.com.ph/OPED2005022029080.html
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Stories
of missionaries helping rebuild livelihoods for fishing communities are coming
mostly out of
"Hua
Laem was filled with the sounds of hammers and saws," reported a husband
and wife team helped by a mission from
Veterans
of the
"David
brought them to Hua Laem," his wife continued. "Slowly the houses rose,
one after the next, their tin roofs gleaming in the late afternoon sun. On the
last day of our time in Hua Laem, something extraordinary happened. The day was
exceptionally hot and few people were moving about. The villagers had opened
sweet young coconuts for the volunteers at lunch, just one of the many edible
offerings they'd made to show their appreciation."
While
the villagers face an uphill battle after all the volunteers leave, those
gleaming roofs will send a message of determination.
More (20 Feb):
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/lifeon20.htm
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Two
more Americans who helped in
They
reported most of the clean-up efforts are completed in
In
boat replacements, a large part of the funds donated from
The
lack of tourism, another major industry in
The
Europeans, he said, don't think it is pretty anymore, but it is.
Bob
said they were amazed at how much progress had been made in
The
reporter, Dresden Romero, is a senior at an
More (20 Feb):
http://www.news-star.com/stories/022005/New_95.shtml
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In
Aceh the first batch of displaced people moved from tents to army-built
barracks. While aid groups worry about water, sanitation, and privacy issues at
the tent camps, most believe the barracks are a poor solution because of
overcrowding and potential army control of people. Fewer than half of
Across
the tsunami-hit region, the tasks ahead range from basic cleanup that will take
just weeks for many Thai resorts on Phuket Island to five-year projects in
communities in Aceh where all that remains of homes are concrete slabs.
No
governmental or private agency has a tsunami-wide estimate of what it will cost
to cover the entire rebuilding effort but it will easily top the unprecedented
$5.1 billion in donor pledges and an estimated $800 million in private
donations. Already disaster coordinators at the United Nations are worried
about the gap between donor pledges and money in the bank: Hundreds of millions
of dollars promised have not yet been transferred, hampering the first stages
of recovery.
Other
challenges will include access to areas in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and southern
Thailand that have long histories of violence connected to separatist
movements; close watch over how money is spent, notably in Indonesia, reputed
to be one of the most corrupt nations in the world; and coordination between
governments, charities, and volunteer groups in carrying out new mandates,
including no-build zones near the sea and the tricky determination of who receives
help.
Harder
still to quantify is the psychological damage endured by survivors -- people
such as Baharuddin, who is from the
More (20 Feb):
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/20/tsunami_victims_haltingly_rebuild
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Around
82,000 Indonesian families displaced by the tsunami will be resettled outside
Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, the country's two cities worst affected by the
disaster, reports Xinhua.
The
government is expected to start next month the construction of permanent houses
for the survivors, an official said here.
"The
government will hold a meeting next week with regents from the hinterland of
both cities to decide the best location for the housing complexes,"
Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Alwi Shihab was quoted Friday by The
Jakarta Post as saying.
The
housing would be provided outside Banda Aceh and Meulaboh as the government was
still finalising its reconstruction plan for the two cities of Aceh province.
Shihab said that while the funds were yet to be allocated, the government would
nevertheless put the projects out to tender.
The
environment ministry has assessed groundwater up to two kilometres away from
the coast had been heavily contaminated, making these areas uninhabitable, said
Masnellyarti Hilman, a senior environmental law official in the environment
ministry. The ministry had found air pollution levels (total suspended solids)
in and around Banda Aceh far above the safe limit of 230 ppm (parts per
million). "In some places, it's around 660 ppm," Masnellyarti said.
But she said the government realised that the fishing community in particular
wanted to return to the coast despite the environmental problems.
Source (18 Feb):
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&id=74039
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Portland
US-based humanitarian agency Mercy Corps announced the laying out of its longer-term
plan supporting the return to six villages in Aceh province. “From the
beginning of the tsunami response, affected communities made it clear they want
our help facilitating their return home and the recovery of their economic
livelihoods,” said Dan Curran, a member of the Mercy Corps team in Banda Aceh.
Mercy
Corps is currently assisting more than 250,000 people in the tsunami-affected
region, specifically
Community
partnership is central to Mercy Corps’ approach to relief and development.
“Relief
and recovery works best when planned and executed in close partnership with the
communities affected by the disaster,” Mercy Corps President Nancy Lindborg
said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. “Many
of these communities have the will and the know-how to shape the best response
to the situation – the international community needs to use and support these
local assets.”
In
addition to assisting communities in their return home, Mercy Corps will continue
to focus on immediate economic revitalization and longer term economic
development. The agency will expand its Cash-for-Work program, which employs
local workers to clear debris from roads and public spaces, rehabilitate
housing, and rebuild schools and other important buildings. Cash-for-Work is
putting 6,000 people to work in Aceh currently.
Beyond
Cash-for-Work, Mercy Corps will support informal economic opportunities –
pallet-making, brick production, scrap metal salvaging – to approximately 2,000
individuals. Businesses initially started through Cash-for-Work programs will
transition more permanently into sale of materials or services and Mercy Corps
will make loans available to small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Source: (18 Feb) Website: http://www.mercycorps.org
More:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/289513/110874615736.htm
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Many
displaced people have been able to return to their communities through the cash
for work projects. The work includes cleaning streets, residential areas and
mosques and building foot and motorbike bridges. In Aceh Besar, 100 displaced
people who were settled in a mosque have now been able to return home. Oxfam’s
cash for work programmes are continuing to expand. Field officers have been
assigned 6 villages each, where they will identify potential cash for work
programmes and work with communities to support their basic needs. Oxfam will
also be starting to work on community action plans.
From
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220803/110863760725.htm
Lafarge,
a French cement maker, late last month announced plans to build a new cement
plan in northern
Fixing
the plant will be only part of the job. An estimated 345 of the company's 625
plant staff still are unaccounted for, and most are presumed dead.
And
all around the plant, in the
More (20 Feb):
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/20/tsunami_victims_haltingly_rebuild
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The
Asian Development Bank has approved the establishment of a multi-donor Asian
Tsunami Fund to deliver fast emergency funding to tsunami-hit countries such as
More (18 Feb):
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050218/hsasp1_1.html
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Despite
the rising death toll and dangers to survivors, the situation in Aceh and other
tsunami-affected areas is rapidly slipping from the international media
headlines. One does not have to look far in the pages of the financial press to
see why.
An
article on the Bloomberg website on January 25 noted that the economic effects
of the tsunami on big business would be “minor”. South Asian economies are
expected to grow 6.25 percent in 2005, only slowing 0.05 percent because of the
disaster. A UN report noted that damage to industrial and port facilities was
limited “and offshore oil and gas fields were spared”.
The
article quoted UN economist Ian Kinniburgh: “We can’t downplay the human
tragedy, but the tsunami did not knock out a lot of modern economic
manufacturing capacity or infrastructure. The area of
Having
turned a blind eye for years to the TNI’s repression in Aceh, and the wider
impoverishment of people in the devastated areas, the major media outlets are
not about to seriously probe the political, economic and social questions
raised by the ongoing catastrophe.
Yet
UNICEF continues to call “critical emergency” the situation revealed by its
survey in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, that 12.7 per cent of children
were malnourished. The organisation fears that outside the capital the
situation would be worse.
The
principal responsibility for coordinating relief efforts in Aceh lies with the
Indonesian armed forces (TNI), which has over 35,000 troops in the province and
is moving in more. Since a renewed offensive against the Free Aceh Movement
(GAM) separatist organisation began in 2003, the military has held a tight
control over the province and its administration.
However,
the TNI’s priorities do not lie in aid.
More (19 Feb):
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/aceh-f19.shtml
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Eagerness
to help in donating fishing boats is questioned in this article.
"The
fishermen have clearly said they want to get back to their own type of
boat," says Serge di Palma, mission head of the non-governmental group
Triangle, which is trying to use local skills and materials to help the local
fishermen rebuild their fleets.
The
traditional local boats are simple and cost around 1,300 dollars, according to
Triangle. Around eight metres (26 feet) long and crewed by two men, they are
made of two or three types of wood and use a Chinese-made inboard motor.
The
tsunami destroyed an estimated 70 percent of such boats in Aceh, either sinking
them, smashing them to pieces or beaching them hundreds of metres (yards)
inland.
More (21 Feb):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-69THR3?OpenDocument
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Some
5,224 boats, or 46 percent of the fleet, were destroyed or lost on the east
coast. But FAO fisheries adviser Uli Schmidt told Reuters, "The damage is
bad, but not as bad as had been anticipated.”We have some figures which have
been published by other agencies which talked of some areas in the east coast
of losses of 100 percent," Schmidt said. "But if you go there you
find plenty of fishing boats of different sizes are still there."
Until
the tsunami, Aceh and nearby
Aceh
had only one medium-size fish-canning facility and most of the fish caught were
consumed by seafood-loving Acehnese or exported unprocessed overseas or to
other parts of the country.
Despite
the tsunami's horror, officials said getting back to work was one of the main
priorities for Aceh's residents, and saw it as only a matter of time before
fishermen got over their fears and returned to the now tranquil sea.
"It
would be, for example, not very good to try to make them into something else
other than fishermen," Schmidt said. "I think they should go back
fishing, and we should provide them with the means to do so," he said.
Officials
like FAO master fisherman Robert Lee said the reconstruction of the fisheries sector
would take several years because of the poor quality of boats and the lack of
structure in the industry even before the disaster.
One
of the most important goals would be to extend the average lifespan of the wooden
boats to about 10 years from the current five or six, Lee said.
Materials
used to rebuild them would be sourced locally to boost the resource-rich but
underdeveloped province's economy.
"I
wouldn't pretend that we can do this immediately. Even if there's not an
emergency, this whole intervention would take time," Lee said.
More (17 Feb):
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-02-17T120545Z_01_DEN743399_RTRUKOC_0_QUAKE-INDONESIA-FISHERIES.xml
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In
figures for
An
estimated 111,073 fishing vessels were destroyed or damaged by the tsunamis,
with a likely replacement cost of $161m, while 36,235 engines were lost or
damaged beyond repair, with replacement costs projected at $73m. In
accessories, 1.7m units of fishing gear (nets, tackle, and similar equipment)
were destroyed, with an estimated replacement cost of $86m.
FAO's
immediate assistance is in planning advice, repairs to boats and provision of
nets. It has 22 fisheries specialists in the affected countries with 11 more
soon be join them. The teams include master fishermen, naval architects, boat
builders, ice-plant and cold room specialists, marine biologists,
aquaculturists and fisheries planners.
The
first priority is to repair boats that can be repaired.
More (17 Feb):
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JWIN-69PDTY?OpenDocument
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Aid
groups are experienced at helping farmers after disasters, but they have very
little history with the fishing industry. After some initial investigation,
which shows that many areas are over-fished and that mafia-like organizations
control boats in many communities, some groups are balking at simply replacing
what was lost.
''We
think people should take a closer look at fishing and see if they can make it
more sustainable and more equitable," said Scott Faiia, CARE's director in
Sri Lanka. He's not sure what that would entail, but he said his group is
hesitant about ''simply replacing boats that were lost."
Such
decisions will have a huge impact on life along the
Faiia
and other aid specialists also said that they want to expand the definition of
who needs aid. ''Not all the resources can go to the narrow community on the
coastal strip," he said. ''We will create problems if we build a new home
for someone, while 200 meters away a person is living in a grass hut."
Relief
agencies, meanwhile, are increasingly concerned about keeping close account of
the money that poured in from around the world in the days after the
catastrophe.
More (20 Feb):
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/20/tsunami_victims_haltingly_rebuild
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NGO's plans for creating jobs in Meulaboh Singapore's Mercy Corps has plans underway to provide technical support to over 100 local businesses in Meulaboh, where well over 90,000 are displaced locally and in the surrounding area. Few roads into and .. |
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Aussies to continue hospital help after pull-back: WHO Indonesia/Aceh update A WHO workshop last week discussed plans to hand foreign-run services back to the local authorities. It noted Australian support for cardiology, neurology, pathology, the infe.. |
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Briefs: IBM help. Donations left over. Students hear about TNI. The IBM team is in the midst of several projects, including a registry to track the various organisations involved in the relief effort. An initial $1m has been committed into helping disa.. |
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Mercy Ships follow container loads with rebuilding support Australian-based National Director Brian Ross joined Mercy Ships counterparts from Singapore and South Korea in Sri Lanka to plan rehabilitation assistance, with health, housing, water and sani.. |
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Good cooperation from army say aid workers on the ground From a small tent on the beach in Calang marked "office", she administered more than 500 measles vaccinations to kids gathered in by Indonesian military officials who went into the hills and used.. |
Camps, Banda Aceh, Truck convoy, Calang, Medical services, |
GOAL |
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Pfizer sponsors psycho-social and job-loss relief. Boats in
"life packages - NY currency trader shows the way Hundreds of healthcare
professionals from tsunami-affected countries gathered in |
Psycho-social services, Shelter materials, Boats and motors, Life-support items, Food relief, Furniture/furnishings, Clothing, |
Thai Govt, |
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OCHA reports aid reaching more remote places Aid reaching smaller centres is the main Aceh highlight in the latest region-wide situation report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Bulletin 23 said Swiss helicopters were fer.. |
Helicopters, Calang, Krueng Sabe, Shelter materials, Keude Panga, Numbers displaced, Number killed, |
OCHA, Swiss orgs, Rotary International, |
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US navy hospital ship arrives Further to oznewz posting 16 Jan,
the |
Naval ships, Hospital ships, Medical services, Calang, Meulaboh, |
US military, Project Hope, Mercy Relief, |
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Aceh’s camps - |
Aceh, Camps, |
World Vision, ABC, TNI, Indonesian Govt, |
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BRIEFS: Telecoms and electricity. WFP commends |
Psycho-social services, Family help, Creating jobs, Telecommunications, Utilities-power, |
US Dept of Ag, Food for the Hungry, Phoenix Arizona, USAID, American Chamber, WFP, Meulaboh, Banda Aceh, |
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BRIEFS: NT's aid finally being shipped. |
Water, Immediate relief aid, Calang, Barge pier, Shipping containers, Medical services, |
Red Cross/Red Crescent, Spain, Action Contre La Faim, Red Cross/Red Crescent, Meulaboh, WFP, NT Govt, Swire, Darwin Coldstores, |
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Sharemarket notes strong Indonesian building supplies industry "How quickly the reconstruction activity begins is likely to be critical." said London-based AMP Capital Investors investment strategy head, Shane Oliver. "Cement and construction stocks in.. |
Building materials, Construction industry, |
Italian-Thai Development, |
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Muslims and US AID in job creation initiatives Mahdan says he'd need 25 million rupiah ($2,737) to replace his old boat, an impossible sum. "If I can't afford a new boat, I must go to the mountains and grow something." To help people like this stunn.. |
Small business, School rebuilding, Creating jobs, Fishing boats, |
Muhammadiyah, USAID, |
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Loans help assure Indonesia's growth rate As international lenders including Japan and the Asian Development Bank pledged $1.7bn to help rebuild Aceh province, Indonesia said last week it would spend $22bn over five years to build Aceh's infrastructure.. |
Reconstruction estimates, Funding, Education, Basic health services, Creating jobs, Telecommunications, Fish industry facilities, Utilities-power, Utilities-water, Roads, Port repairs, Rail development, Environment. |
Sri Lanka, Aceh, Asian Dev Bank, |
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Big list in 6,460 tonnes trucked by IOM Since the first
deployment of trucks on |
Lhokseumawe, Nias, Biruen, Truck convoy, Aceh, |
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WFP turns from air lifting, Aceh camps shelter 417,000 The UN
World Food Programme (WFP) has wound down its air operations from its hub at
the Subang Air Base in |
Rainbow Warrier, Rafts, Bridges, Education, Small business, Meulaboh, Lamno, Camps, Sabang, Puma, Mi17, Mi8, Helicopters, C130, Subang hub, |
WFP, Indonesian |
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Donations and Aussie military helps Aceh job creation The Australian Engineer Corps is helping clear the tsunami sludge and debris left by the force nine earthquake. Its technical know-how is proving invaluable in the UN training of tsunami-displaced p.. |
Military assistance, Hospitals, Relief jobs, Army engineers, |
Banda Aceh, UNDP, Aust Defence, |
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Funding and boat charters speed SurfAid's help to offshore islands Numerous island communities west of Northern Sumatra cut off from the mainland emergency efforts have been rescued by medical mobile clinics brought in by SurfAid. During last week, .. |
Mentawai Is, Hinako Is, Laosilousi, |
Quiksilver, Idep Bali, |
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Impressions from Thursday's |
Procurement, Demand analysis, UN procurement, |
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Briefs: CARE logistician confirms need for aid delivery by sea
mode. No chance for B747 aid via |
Logistician, Sea mode, B747, Malacca Straits, Hydrographic vessel, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit , Helicopters, Fishing industry, |
USNS |
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Highlights from UNJLC's 21 January bulletin: IOM's |
Road, Medan, Biruen, Nias, Lhokseumawe, Banda Aceh's Kreung Raja/Malahyati port, Emergency fuel, Coastal shipping, Air operations |
WFP, Meulaboh, Banda Aceh, UNJLC, IOM, Atlas Logistique, |
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UN assistance to fishing/food industry industry phase: UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has short-term and mid-term programs affecting Aceh's fishing/agricultural/tourism phase of rebuilding. To improve Aceh's agricultural sector and food sup.. |
Fishing/agriculture, Fish industry facilities, Seeds, Fertiliser, Livestock, Agricultural equipment, Drainage and canal systems, Creating jobs |
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Aid/emergency, Water, Ian Kiernan |
Aceh, Memcor, Clean Up |
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Logistics of delivering tonnes of clean water: Naval ships off
shore had the capacity to produce 90,000 gallons (340 tonnes) of fresh water
a day - but no capacity to bottle it for the tens of thousands in need. Staff
from the |
Water, Naval ships, |
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"Payday" for portable purifiers pioneer: While Australians and Spaniards brought large scale water purifying to main centres, an American inventor-manufacturer wanted to get lightweight water purifiers on the ground for aid/emergency relief in remoter p.. |
Aid/emergency, Water, |
Air Mobile Ministries, Meulaboh |
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Oxfam urges rules of origin rethink: |
Import access policy, Sri Lankan clothing manufacture, |
EU, |
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Logistics pose barrier to next relief phases: The Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami surges cost Meulaboh 32,000 people, a third of its population and 80pc of its land area suffered damaged. With $13m donations to date, Samaritan’s Purse is financing 1.. |
Logistician, Local buying policy, Local employment, |
Meulaboh, Aid organisations, Samaritan's Purse |
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Aceh plea for basic services and creating jobs: Dozens of bulldozers and power shovels are working in the tsunami-aftermath, but residents want faster action to restore basic services. "Things are getting worse, not better," said Naya, a 27-year-old w.. |
Basic services, Craft jobs, School rebuilding, Hospitals,
Farmers, Fishermen, Small businesses, |
Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, |
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Funding, People's Freedom |
IMF, |
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Sri Lanka PM on a $3.5bn reconstruction drive: |
New housing, Key industries, |
Fishing industry, ILO, |
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Fishing industry funding heads another 27bn of Indian aid: |
Fishing industry funding, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, |
Fishing industry, Andamans/Nicobar, Tamil Nadu, Indian Govt, |
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Village rebuilding away from the sea: In Karaikal, a formerly
French-ruled enclave in |
Village rebuilding, |
Tamil |
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Funding to get Malaysian fishermen back to sea by March: Fishing industry body, the Malaysia Fishermen Fund has allocated 50m ringgit ($13.15m) in interest-free loans to the fishermen who suffered in fishing industry losses estimated at 100m ringgit ($2.. |
Fishing industry body, Interest-free loans, Fishing industry losses, Perlis, Perak, Kedah, Penangt, Rebuilding work |
Fishing industry, Malaysian Govt, |
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Logistics sought for 5000 tonnes WA wheat aid: The Western Australian Farmers Federation has joined up with grain companies AWB and Coop Bulk Handling (CBH) in an appeal aimed at exporting 5,000 tonnes of wheat to an Indonesian milling plant for process.. |
Wheat exports, Milling plant, Dry bulk shipping, Western |
WA Farmers Fed, Indonesia, CBH WA, AWB Ltd, |
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Citigroup people in support of aid and logistics: Citigroup and
employees have 50/50 contributed $7.4m towards food relief being organised
for Aceh by USAID and American Chamber of Commerce. In |
Food relief, |
American Chamber, UNJLC, USAID, Citigroup, |
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World Vision NZ in four-phase long haul approach: World Vision NZ’s CEO Helen Green says a four phase response will continue for three to four years. During this initial six to eight weeks it's the emergency phase, together with starting phase 2, restor.. |
Aid/emergency, Basic health services, Education, Psycho-social services, Crafts, Dwelling/school rebuilding |
World Vision NZ, |
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FAO decides 5-years help for Indonesian agriculture and fisheries Estimating it would take five years work to rebuild Aceh's food producing resources in fisheries and agriculture, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf put land drainage and canal digging at .. |
Agriculture, Fisheries, Drainage, Canal digging, Seeds, Fertiliser, Livestock, Agricultural equipment, Salinity, |
Aceh, FAO, |
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WFP charters address West Coast food crisis It seemed a small amount, considering FAO's estimate that 42,000 fishermen used to feed Aceh people half their source of all protein - fish. However, it was the biggest cargo plane around, the WFP-chartered .. |
Boats and motors, Ilyushin-76, Merchant vessel, |
WFP, US military, Banda Aceh, Caritas/Catholic Relief Services, MV Kimtrans, USNS Abraham Lincoln, Meulaboh, COE Hawaii, |
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Indonesian update: Ports under assessment, logistics planning
organisation formed. |
Ports, Sabang, Kreng Raya, Airports, Banda Aceh, Lhoksuemawe, Helicopters, Emergency fuel, Road, Logistics planning, Numbers displaced |
WFP, UNJLC, Indonesian Govt, Banda Aceh, Meulaboh, COE |
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BRIEFS FOR WED 19 JAN: UPS donates freighter flight for Care |
B747F, Kits-survival, Water engineers, Market access, Reconstruction estimates, Infrastructure projects |
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Army engineers pitch in while world considers fishing industry assistance: The Indian Army demonstrated practical action, despatching engineering teams for repairs to boats and motors of fishing vessels badly damaged by Boxing Day's tsunamis. Military.. |
Army engineers, Fishing communities, Repairs to boats and motors |
Fishing industry, Aust seafood, EU, Indian military, |
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FAO reports region's fishing industry damage worse than expected: From reports back from its teams of fisheries experts, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is planning repairs to boats and motors and replacement assistance for fishing boat.. |
Fisheries experts, Fishing industry assistance, Repairs to boats
and motors, |
Fishing industry, FAO, |
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Water purification units part of DLA's amazing supply chain.
Hugely important to tsunami relief, the majority of water purification and
reverse osmosis water purification units now in use came from US Defense
Supply Centers in |
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US military, Defense Logistics Agency, |
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Naval ships, Helicopters, Chinook, Super Puma, C130, |
Meulaboh, Singapore Govt, Singapore Red Cross, YMCA of Singapore, Touch Community Services International, RSS ships, Mercy Relief |
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US sappers prepare logistics hub while |
Landing craft, Hovercraft, Helicopters, Army Engineers, Multimodal, Logistics hub |
Indonesian |
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Months of repairs before ports re-open Delivery of relief by merchant shipping is off to a modest start, with a chartered car ferry delivering IOM and WFP aid into Banda Aceh, Calang and islands off the west coast. Banda Aceh's port, Krueng Raya, s.. |
Mobile port equipment, Nias, Lhokseumawe, Sinabang, Balohan, Haji, Banyak, Helicopters, Landing craft, Boats, Small freighters. |
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Airport overflowing, roads limited - sea alternative needed urgently UNJLC reported Banda Aceh airport is to full capacity. Additional flights would impede not speed up its cargo flow. The Bulletin urged for more relief to come by road. Hopes are he.. |
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WFP, IOM, Meulaboh, Banda Aceh, |
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Relief of Meulaboh, second road convey presses ahead A second light truck convey launched from Jakarta by International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is now pressing on across mountains to the tsunami-flattened city of Meulaboh on Aceh's west coast. .. |
Road, Truck convoy,Heavy trucks, |
WFP, IOM, |
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Military not wanted after April - will Aceh's roads be ready? |
HMAS Kanimbla, Road, Helicopters, Banda Aceh airport, B747F, C17, C5B, AN124, C130 Hercules, USAF, RAAF, RNZAF, Malacca Straits, Townsville |
Singapore Govt, US military, Indonesian military, Aust Defence, |
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Darwinians' promptly fill eight containers for Aceh, awaiting for shipment Swire Shipping has a ship leaving in a week (19 January) with eight containers of immediate relief aid, packed by volunteers on pallets ready for on-carriage to Aceh. Pressure on .. |
Immediate relief aid, |
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DHL organises sea equivalent of 35,000 air consignments DHL Danzas Air & Ocean has readied 500 40-footer containers for loading relief cargo to Sri Lanka from its warehouses in Los Angeles, Houston and New York. The influx of US aid material into Sri.. |
40-footer containers, air cargo integrator, Aid items, US public donations, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, Sri Lanka, Phuket, Bangkok, Indonesia, Tamil Nadu, Andamans, Maldives |
DRN, DHL Worldwide, |
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Airport updates: Subang hub, |
Air cargo space ex |
Sri Lankan Airways, Air Serv, Expo Air, UNHAS, UNICEF, |
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Shipping Corporation of India in substantial relief operations In India's Ministry of Home Affairs report dated 11 January, the Shipping Corporation of India was credited with 27 out of 49 berths restored to operation in tsunami-hit island territories .. |
Chennai, Kolkata, Haldia, Vizag, Andaman and |
Indian military, Indian Govt, Shipping Corp of |
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Aceh highlights from UNJLC's Bulletin 13 In sea operations, the
German supply/hospital ship ' |
Sea operations, Air operations, Road operations, Air cargo
handling, Ground-air communications, Tapoa, |
Disaster Management Centre (DMC), US military, Norways Red Cross, Japan Govt, Danish Govt, Dutch Govt, German Govt, Banda Aceh, |
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Sea, land and air updates UNJLC Air and Logistics Bulletins
continue to provide updates on other modes. Below are sea, land and air
updates for Aceh province. The last three bulletins (9, 10 and 11) also
covered the |
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UNJLC establishes fuel unit and reports on Aceh's road, sea and
air facilities UNJLC's Bulletin 8 said Belawan ( |
Belawan port, Medan, Singkill port, Sibolga port, Meulaboh, Emergency fuel Lhokseumawe airport, Halim military airport Jakarta,Helicopters, Air cargo request forms, Truck needs, UNJLC fuel cell, UNJLC bulletins, Air cargo request forms, |
UNJLC, |
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Tweendecker among assets offered via UNJLC UNJLC is discussing
conditions with the offerer of a multipurpose tweendecker vessel for a single
voyage from the US Gulf to the |
Vessel offered, Amphibious aircraft, Landing craft |
UNJLC, |
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Donors urged to prioritise new dwellings in a
"reconstruction plus" approach Heads of state released government
funding pledges for Indonesia ahead of their Thursday aid summit meeting in
Jakarta. |
Indonesia, "Reconstruction plus", Govt funding, Pledges, Camps, New dwellings, Land compensation, Longer term funding, Aid funds tied to nationals |
Aid orgs, |
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Telecommunications constrain Banda Aceh air turnarounds. An airport situation report said Iridum satellite phones are working in the area, so agencies should consider bringing their own telecommunications. Australian air turnarounds were described: .. |
Telecommunications, Air turnarounds, Meulaboh, Twin Otter, Air cargo handling, B707, Halim, |
MerciCorps, UNICEF, Apple Air, Aust Defence, |
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Relief at new cooperation in Indonesia Over the weekend, more
than 20 US Navy ships arrived in ports across the battered areas of |
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US military, |
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Security tightens as commercial truckers join the relief Commercial organisations have joined in the trucking effort, with TNT and Unilever providing assistance in Sri Lanka and TNT trucks shuttling between Medan and Banda Aceh. This starts off progress .. |
Truckers, Trucks, |
Unilever, TNT, UNJLC, |
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TNT speeds transit for UN's heavy air charters An Antonov 124
jet freighter has landed in |
Posted 3 Jan |
TNT, |
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India mainland report shows Tamil Nadu hardest hit Tamil Nadu province had more than 400 relief camps sheltering 310,000 at last count on 2 Jan. Pondicherry province had 48 camps with more than 10,000. In all, 2280kms of Indian coastline affected with .. |
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Tamil Nadu |
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Breakthrough in Aceh air landings Australian air traffic
controllers have been granted Indonesian access to Banda Aceh, where the
airport has been operating a daily 1000 flights with just a mobile phone to
pilots landing by sight. The UN |
Banda Ache, Air traffic control, Helicopters, Army engineers, C130, C17,B707, Medan, Aceh West Coast ports, Landing crafts, Boats, Water, Generators, Kits-survival Telecommunications, Brindisi, Air turnarounds, |
Indonesian military, Singapore Govt, Malaysian Govt, Aust Defence, UNJLC, USNS ships |
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Hesitation at Australian offer of air cargo unloading forklifts in Aceh Aceh airport has limited capacity to receive airplanes and (up to C130, C17, IL76) and unload shipment. But, following an Australian Government offer, the International Humanitaria.. |
Air cargo handling equipment, C130, C17, IL76, military cargo planes, immediate inventory requirements, |
Banda Aceh, Doctors Without Borders, DFAT-AusAid, |
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Air capacity at full stretch. Material help from corporations. Pictures. Air capacity at full stretch Some 1,900 stranded residents and tourists on the archipelago have been evacuated from Port Blair on 18 flights, which Jet Airways operated from the .. |
Port Blair, Air freight capacity, Indian corporate donors, immediate inventory requirements, telephone exchange, |
Indian military, Indian companies, |
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Aceh relief gets naval ships but no pre-delivery system yet
Numerous naval ships will soon boost generating capacity for processing fresh
water in the most remote, worst hit Banda Aceh |
Pre-delivery notification, Naval ships, |
World Food/Health, RNZAF, Indian military, US military, Aust Defence, Banda Aceh, SEEDS, |
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Relief ships sail for Port Bair Increased freight capacity is
slowly coming in the |
Passenger aircraft freight, Kolkata port, Port Blair, air freighter capacity, Indian NGO aid organisations |
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Air relief not enough Air force capacity can't keep pace with either the demand or supply of material aid to stricken tsunami areas. It's a fact acknowledged in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) website: "We deeply appreciate .. |
Air freight capacity, airports, |
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More agencies require more freight Paris-based Medecins Sans
Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and international humanitarian had yet
to receive an answer from Indian Defence, about joining in the relief for
hundreds of islands in the |
Port Blair, Indian NGOs |
Andamans/Nicobar, Doctors Without Borders, SEEDS, |
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Indian NGO tackles tsunami logistics Some Tsunami-hit communities in the Andamans archipelago off India's southern tip have the hope of house rebuilding in two weeks, thanks to the non government program of a New Delhi-based group. Evacuees have alre.. |
Home rebuilding, New |
Andamans/Nicobar, SEEDS, |
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Funding and boat charters speed SurfAid's help to offshore islands Numerous island communities west of Northern Sumatra cut off from the mainland emergency efforts have been rescued by medical mobile clinics brought in by SurfAid. During last week, MV B.. |
Nias, |
SurfAid, |
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US air cargo operators quick to join medical suppliers. NWA Cargo, a subsidiary of Northwest Airlines, committed 30 December to lift up to 200 tons over the coming 60 days, using its regularly scheduled all-cargo and passenger/cargo combination flights b.. |
Air cargo operators, C-130, Medical supplies, |
US military, NWA Cargo, FedEx, |
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Fast action by DHL, NWA Cargo, US military. Air parcel and cargo
integrator DHL was carrying for the Red Cross and Red Crescent, delivering
about 50 tonnes of food, water, clothes and medicine in three flights from |
Phuket, Air cargo integrator, |
Maldives, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Red Cross/Red Crescent, Thai Govt, DHL Worldwide, |
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SIMPLY DO! Is this what the rapture was supposed to be? Half our families whisked away Obscenely bloated bodies for all to see. Please, no preaching now I just want to be and do I'll cry when I want to. I love the doctors, nurses too People .. |
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facilitate logistics action sooner rather than later. Editor in |
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