1. Rebuilding Communities Planned Approach to Recovery

2. Lessons learnt Understanding Risk: There is very limited organised capacity to track how the risks are evolving in different geographies due to emerging development patterns. Realistically, the national aspiration to fix the development deficit and move towards sustainable development will take long time… Hence: maintain organised capacity for disaster preparedness at right level to contain losses and protect development gains. risk management process and practice to be handled within limited geographies like, district, block or village/city level. Risk management perspective and practices have to flow into the mainstream development processes like preparation of sectoral PIPs at district level, building regulations, design of….

3. How did the DM System do?

4. Learning from the Disaster In July flashfloods and landslides, people, land, animals and properties were washed away along with livelihood of thousands. Damage to roads, bridges and other means of connectivity had multi dimensional impact including loss of productivity The damages are counted, but the losses are uncountable.

5. Counting the Losses Let us take an example: Time lost by Children Social Cost of closure of schools - for about 21 days. Among all the MDM receiving children about 9% are anemic – which is 63,000 Amidst food insecurity, with no MDM in schools for 21 days - its impact on health, growth and development of children Placing a cost on all these will be difficult

6. UN Technical Support Look into Social Aspect of Damages Rapid Needs Assessment Social Sectoral Plan in FIVE districts 78 Villages Coverage 216 Villages ENABLING GO-NGO-CORPORATE COORDINATION IMPLEMENTATION OF A COORDINATED LIVE SOCIAL SECTORAL PLAN COORDINATED ACTION PLAN- SSPs ASSESSMENT Using the SSPs DMs of Rudraprayag (4 Sep) and Chamoli (6 Sep) for Uttarkashi & Pithoragarh for multi stakeholder conclave at district level to allocate roles and responsibilities for reconstruction

7. Taking Forward The plans to be placed before Corporates, NGOs and other stakeholders in four districts Tasks and places to be allotted to the NGOs / Corporate sector as either a whole village concept or thematic approach. UN continue to coordinate with administration and other stakeholders for quality and effective delivery. Support Government to monitor implementation of SSPs in 4 districts. Prepare Capacity development plan for the social sectors at district level. This will help Government take- up capacity building work in the state.

8. “Recognizing the inevitability of disaster- driven to a great extent by incautious development and a changing climate is only a first step, more difficult step is developing best practices for taking forehanded action to assess and minimize their impact.” Margareta Wahlstorm, UNISDR

9. Solutions from the plains have limited relevance for mountains, Uk citizens need to take leadership in planning and decision making Thank You