A post-Cyclone Nargis recovery and preparation plan report, worked out by a Myanmar-ASEAN-UN tripartite core group (TCG), will be released at the end of this month in Myanmar, the local Biweekly Eleven journal reported Thursday.
The report on recovery and natural disaster preparedness programs to be implemented over the next three years from 2009 to 2011 covers that on agriculture, construction, education, health, environment and sanitation, natural disaster response, the journal said, adding that these programs will involve local and international non-governmental organizations.
In July last year when it was nearly three months after CycloneNargis, Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)and the United Nations released a post-Nargis joint assessment (PONJA) report, saying that the total damage and losses due to lastMay cyclone storm in Myanmar was estimated at 4.4 to 4.5 trillion Kyats ( 4.02 to 4.13 billion U.S. dollars).
The report preliminary indicated that recovery need was at overone billion dollars over the next three years.
Of the total need, 90 percent are at community level which were targeted in the areas of agriculture, housing, community villages infrastructure.
The PONJA report was produced after a 10-day survey on 291 villages in 30 cyclone-worst-affected townships in two divisions of Ayeyawaddy and Yangon, involving over 250 experts.
In November last year, a TCG high-level roundtable was held in Yangon to review the post-Nargis relief and recovery efforts in the country, attended by Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister U Kyaw Thu, who is also TCG chairman, Bishow Parajuli, United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator, representatives of TCG members and donor countries as well as foreign diplomats.
The roundtable, which was the second, reported the progress of activities that the TCG had embarked on immediately after the assessment phase.
The TCG, based in Yangon, was established at the ASEAN-UN International Pledging Conference in Yangon late May as a working mechanism for coordination, facilitating and monitoring the flow of international assistance into Myanmar's cyclone-hit areas.
Cyclone Nargis, which occurred over the Bay of Bengal, hit fivedivisions and states -- Ayeyawaddy, Yangon, Bago, Mon and Kayin onMay 2 and 3 last year, of which Ayeyawaddy and Yangon inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructure damage.
The storm killed 84,537 people and left 53,836 missing and 19,359 injured, according to official death toll.
Source:Xinhua
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