Emergency

Pakistan:

LRRD:

The Tsunami disaster in the Asia region was quite a complex one in the sense that entire clusters of coastal villages were totally or partially destroyed wherein people lost everything and this left the population in a situation of dire poverty. The disaster response was also quite a challenge in the sense that the classical disaster response based on the continuum model was questioned; there was a need to address the emergency response from a more comprehensive perspective, taking into account the need to go for a long term development oriented disaster response.

Disaster response & Disaster recovery:

In the coming years, urban disasters, both natural and man-made will be a major concern and will affect a massive number of people. There is a need to promote a more people-centered approach to disaster risk management to build resilient communities.

This paper, based on the Sri Lankan « uprooted peoples » rehabilitation experience, will argue that housing is a right and is the essential part of recovery program, which needs to be carried out with method. It will identify the major challenges encountered in the program and will propose a framework for post conflict Disaster recovery for the future similar situations.

These papers will contribute to the discussion on the Rights Based Approach methodology to disaster response from the Asian experience and particularly the Caritas Tsunami experience in India and Sri Lanka.

Based on the Tsunami experience in Karaikal and Cuddalore in South India, this paper will discuss on the need to integrate the resilience concept in the humanitarian response.

Right Based Approach:

The human rights-based approach is recognition of human rights principles as a framework for humanitarian Response. It requires a participatory approach with involvement of all stakeholders and a change in paradigm when it comes to concrete intervention, in particular the disaster situations in a conflict environment either ongoing conflict, or post conflict context.

The human rights-based approach is recognition of human rights principles as a framework for humanitarian response. It requires a participatory approach with involvement of all stakeholders and a change in paradigm when it comes to concrete intervention, in particular the disaster situations in a conflict environment either ongoing conflict, or post conflict context.