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Effects of post disaster infrastructure reconstruction on disaster management cycle and challenges confronted: The case of Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka
There has been an increase in the number of natural disasters over the past few
years. Sri Lanka was particularly hard hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004,
which caused devastating effects on the economy, in terms of huge human and economic
losses, and washed away most of its basic infrastructure that served the poorer communities
while significantly setting back the development efforts of the country. The developing
countries are less able to face the impacts of disasters and so it is imperative to develop the
infrastructure for the poorer nations in order to quip them to manage disasters. Without being
able to provide the basic infrastructure, the plight of these affected people have been further
compounded. Post-disaster reconstruction has a key relevancy to development discourse and
disaster management cycle; particularly infrastructure reconstruction should be envisaged
from development perspectives. However infrastructure reconstruction projects are
sandwiched between the short-term necessity to act promptly and the long-term requirement
of sustainable development. In this context this paper aims to discover the necessity of
rebuilding infrastructure for a successful disaster management cycle and some key challenges
for post-tsunami long-term infrastructure reconstruction in Sri Lanka. A comprehensive
literature review was carried out regarding these issues. Results confirm that infrastructure can
both reduce the losses resulting from natural disasters and facilitate easy post-disaster
recovery and thus more investment in infrastructure reconstruction is needed. Currently
disaster management teams in Sri Lanka faces some key challenges in reconstructing the
affected infrastructure; most aggravating is the unfamiliarity of the event, poor institutional
capacity, and current security problems in the north and east of the country. Sri Lanka has to
learn much from other settings and there is a strong need to develop the capacity
Rethinking the transition process in Syria: constitution, participation and gender equality
A just and sustainable peace for Syria can only be attained through the equal participation of women\u2019s rights defenders at the negotiation table and throughout the transitional process. Understanding the legal framework within which such participation takes place \u2013 and the challenges of promoting women\u2019s rights through a gender-responsive constitution \u2013 is crucial. This publication, resulting from a collaboration between Euromed Feminist Initiative and the University of Padova, builds on the knowledge of academics and advocates, shedding new insights on those challenges. It aims at supporting institutional efforts being made to guarantee women\u2019s participation in the Syrian reconstruction, as well as advocacy initiatives carried out to ensure women\u2019s participation in political and economic decision-making in the country\u2019s future
Climate change and disaster impact reduction
Based on papers presented at the 'UK - South Asia Young Scientists and Practitioners Seminar on Climate Change and Disaster Impact Reduction' held at Kathmandu, Nepal on 5-6 June, 2008
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