Strategies and Resources for Renewal
Strategies for Renewal
A response at the level of the crisis -- challenges and opportunities
Pakistan reconstruction as a complex global crisis
This Site Sponsors' Earth Home pilot project in Punjab Province
The Pakrenewal Forum for discussion of reconstruction and economic recovery in Pakistan.
A response at the level of the crisis -- challenges and opportunities
Pakistan reconstruction as a complex global crisis
This Site Sponsors' Earth Home pilot project in Punjab Province
The Pakrenewal Forum for discussion of reconstruction and economic recovery in Pakistan.
“The floods here in Pakistan have affected almost 21 million people – it is one of the biggest humanitarian crises the world has seen”,
--Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Recovery from
Pakistan's Floods of 2010
Pakrenewal.com
seeks
to
contribute
to
sustainable
reconstruction
and
economic
recovery
in
Pakistan
in
the
wake
of
2010’s
massive
flooding. The sponsors of this site:
- Call for a global
response at the level of the crisis in Pakistan.
- Present
strategies for a sustainable and rapid reconstruction and recovery
processes.
- Assemble the most
comprehensive catalogue of links to international and Pakistani
resources engaged in post-flood relief and renewal or reporting on it.
- Opened a forum page for discussion and input.
- Welcome input by e-mail to ideas at pakrenewal dot com
How would you like to start?
Tell me what is new about the situation in Spring 2011 - next itemTell me what are the challenges and opportunities in Pakistan's recovery from the floods.
Tell me what makes post-flood renewal a complex global crisis demanding high priority support.
How can I access resources for reconstruction planning?
How can I make a cash contribution to relief and recovery organizations?
Spring 2011 update
Post flood recovery in Pakistan has virtually disappeared from international awareness at a time when the recovery has hardly begun. The Japanse earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis come after months of protests in the Middle East, a winter of extreme weather, and internal turbulence around street killings by a US CIA contractor in Lahore and assassinations of high level opponents to Pakistan's blasphemy law.Millions of displaced village residents still need assistance in rebuilding their homes and recovering their livelihoods. However, flood reconstruction and economic recovery is underfunded and moving slowly. Hundreds of thousands of villagers whose homes and crops were destroyed by the floods last Summer are still living in tent camps. Others have rebuilt their homes with little assistance from the government or international aid.
The Pakistan Floods Shelter Cluster reported at the end of March that 14,500 one room homes and 26,000 transitional shelters have been built, to begin filling the need created by destruction of 806,000 homes. (That’s five percent of the need.) The expectation in the Cluster’s web page is that the one-room homes will be the nucleus for later add-ons by their residents. The transitional shelters are stop-gap housing that can be moved easily and have a short lifespan. In this pressing emergency situation little attention goes to design for resource efficiency or flood and earthquake proofing. Shelter Cluster
A number of organizations have proposed developing model villages in flood-damaged areas and some have started construction. These vary in scale and design and only a few include significant economic recovery activities. We summarize these model village projects on another page.
Major donor funding is tending to focus on hard infrastructure systems. For instance, the only major assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) is “ $650 million in emergency assistance loans to help Pakistan rebuild vital infrastructure destroyed during last year's floods: damaged roads, bridges, irrigation systems, as well as flood and drainage protection works in the worst affected areas.” 30 March 2011. http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2011/13509-pakistan-floods-assistances/
There is no mention of village reconstruction on the ADB or on the World Bank sites.
The major new money allocated from World Bank so far is a US$125 million loan for the Flood Emergency Cash Transfer Project, designed to support the Government in providing cash transfers to more than 1 million flood-affected households. These "provided around 1.4 million families with cash grants of PRs. 20,000 (approximately US$230) to cover their immediate needs. The next phase, supported by this project, will provide an additional payment of PRs. 40,000 (approximately US$460) to around 1.1 million most affected households.
" . . . industrialized nations, the source of most pollutants now warming the earth, have a clear responsibility for the flooding, and thus have a powerful additional reason, beyond ordinary human compassion, to give assistance."
--Jonathan Schell
September 13, 2010 edition of The Nation (US)
Links to Resources for Renewal
Donation SitesSituation Reports and Damage Assessments
Sustainable Design and Construction
Climate Change and RenewalAppropriate Technologies
Background on Pakistan
Pakistan & Int'l news sources
to suggest additions e-mail
ideas (at) pakrenewal.com
Sponsors of this site
Sustainable Design Group
International
Center
for
Sustainable
Development
Alliance
for Sustainable Industry & Energy
Bilyan, LLC
Indigo Development
International
Center for Sustainable Development 
