Building Back Better - Kerala Addressing Post-Disaster Recovery Needs

UNICEF was part of the front-line response to the 2018 floods and their devastating consequences in the Indian State of Kerala. UNICEF’s work focussed on supporting WASH services and equipment in affected communities. UNICEF, with the support of national and regional-level administrations, local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), community-level organisations as well as national and local radio stations, set about responding to urgent WASH needs in order to ‘build back better’.

UNICEF continued to provide leadership in coordinating and responding to the emergency caused by the floods, while also worked towards strengthening the linkage between humanitarian and development programming. The WASH team at the Tamil Nadu field office invested in stronger systems during times of stability to mitigate the impact and cost of emergencies and making humanitarian and development programme efforts complementary to each other. UNICEF was consistently on the ground working in close coordination with Kerala government and a range of partners to scale up its responses and respond to immediate needs of affected children and their families. Through a detailed post-disaster needs assessment, the office informed its risk-informed programming approaches and provided support for building institutional capacity to improve risk mitigation and recuperate to the damage. The activities of this project and its results are described in this field note for emergency WASH professionals.

Bibliographic information

Parmar, T., Manchikanti, S., Arora, R. (2021). Building Back Better - Kerala Addressing Post-Disaster Recovery Needs. UNICEF

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