Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project
Pakistan
The expected impact of the Project is to contribute to reversing the devastating impact of the earthquake and so revive economic activity and enable people to resume their livelihoods and return to normal life. The Project will rehabilitate public infrastructure and adopt appropriately revised earthquake-resistant design and construction standards in all construction undertaken. In addition, the Project will provide capacity building to enhance rehabilitation capacity and institution building for sustainable development.
In North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), some of the earthquake-affected communities are tribal. Tribes typically dominate the areas they occupy and participate in the mainstream economic and political activities. Tribal people are well represented in mainstream public institutions, the civil service, and educational institutions. The social inequality and vulnerability of most such people thus arise from economic differentiation rather than from social exclusion or cultural differences. In the earthquake-affected areas, for example, land is owned by a few large,
powerful tribal families. They rent out their land to members of the same tribe or sub-tribe to cultivate crops and to raise livestock. All of them will certainly benefit from the rehabilitation of roads, power systems, and social services such as education and health facilities that were destroyed or damaged by the earthquake. The Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy indicates that Project impacts on them will arise mainly from land acquisition and disturbances to livelihood. These will be adequately addressed through resettlement planning.
A social assessment will be conducted focusing on the potential vulnerability of all affected groups, including tribal people, to ensure effective consultations and that culturally appropriate benefits reach each such affected group, instead of focusing only on groups defined as indigenous peoples.
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The Project will rehabilitate and restore infrastructure damaged and destroyed by the earthquake of 8 October 2005 in affected areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and North-West Frontier Province.
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