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Victims unhappy with sluggish pace of reconstruction process: Survey

This article was originally published by Republica. Quake victims, who lost their homes, properties and relatives in the earthquake last year, have expressed dissatisfaction with the government's handling of reconstruction process. As per a survey among quake-hit communities, majority of respondents said they were unhappy with the sluggish pace of the reconstruction process and blamed the government of having unclear plans. The survey, which was conducted among 795 communities in the 14 worst quake-hit districts, showed that 54 percent of the victims expressed dissatisfaction over the delayed in reconstruction process. The study also shows that 81 percent of the people [...]

2016-04-20T00:00:00+00:0020th April 2016|

Gathering and sharing feedback to improve the earthquake response in Nepal

By: Sara Rodriguez, Accountability Lab Resident in Nepal Accountability Lab and Local Interventions Group started the Mobile Citizen Helpdesks (MCHDs) just under a year ago with very limited resources. Right after the first earthquake on April 26, 2015, we mobilized volunteers to provide earthquake-related information to victims and to close the feedback loop by connecting citizens needing assistance with different organizations who could provide relief. Today the MCHDs are a consolidated project that has reached over 60,000 citizens in 800 communities. We are now systematically documenting the progress and the challenges of the emergency relief and the recovery processes. At the same time, we are [...]

2016-04-12T00:00:00+00:0012th April 2016|

Broken lines

By: Maximillian Morch. This article was originally published by Republica. International response to natural disasters continue to fail to address the needs of affected communities Shakti Thami from Suspa village of Dolakha district was working in Charikot, the district headquarters, when the earthquake struck on April 25, 2015. Ten months later, he shares a house with four other families. He is still waiting for government compensation. He is not sure when the money will come. “There’s so much confusion. People in one ward have received funds but we haven’t. We are told the money isn’t coming from Kathmandu, but no [...]

2016-03-06T00:00:00+00:006th March 2016|

From the ground: Accountability Lab’s Nepal earthquake relief efforts

By: Emily Collins, Marketing and Communications Fellow at GlobalGiving. This blog post was originally published on GlobalGiving’s GlobalGoodness blog. For earthquake relief in Nepal, connection is key. Displaced Nepali citizens found themselves unable to connect with organizations to provide essential needs, like food, water, and medical aid. Accountability Lab is dedicated to making this connection possible. At GlobalGiving, we were fortunate enough to get in contact with Narayan Adhikari, the representative for Accountability Lab: South Asia, and gather a bit of look into what is happening on the ground in Nepal. Through their Mobile Citizen Helpdesk project, Narayan and Accountability Lab have been able [...]

2015-06-24T00:00:00+00:0024th June 2015|

Top 10 Challenges in Nepal After the Earthquakes

By: Ashley Ann Day and Suman Parajuli, Accountability Lab Residents. The destruction caused by the Nepal earthquakes is staggering: 8,676 dead, 21,952 injured, and almost 500,000 homes destroyed. Millions of people have been affected by these natural disasters, and the trauma is far from over. Displaced citizens living in tents and temporary shelters are facing a host of issues, including corruption and insecurity. At the Accountability Lab, in partnership with our friends at Local Interventions Group, we’ve set up Mobile Citizen Helpdesks across the ten most-affected districts to identify these challenges and fix problems. Groups of five to seven volunteers have [...]

2015-06-01T00:00:00+00:001st June 2015|

The Predictable Disaster in Nepal

The Predictable Disaster in Nepal By: Blair Glencorse and Narayan Adhikari. This blog post was originally published by The Aspen Institute. Photo credit: Accountability Lab, Nepal The people of Nepal have known for a long time that a big earthquake was coming, and it finally arrived last week. Villages have been wiped out, thousands are dead or missing, and swaths of cultural heritage have been lost. Even now it is unclear what the situation is like in remote parts of districts that have been cut off from help by collapsed infrastructure and landslides. The incredible goodwill from around the world is [...]

2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:005th May 2015|

Shaking Up Aid Donors Five Years After the Haiti Earthquake

This article was originally published by the Miami Herald. By Blair Glencorse and Anne Sophie Ranjbar Five years ago today - on January 12th, 2010- Port-au-Prince crumbled to the ground in one of the worst natural disasters of recent times. Over 200,000 were killed in the earthquake, with another 300,000 injured. Entire neighborhoods were raised. As many as 2.3 million people- the equivalent of half the population of the Miami metro area- were displaced from their homes. More than 50 percent of all government, administrative and economic infrastructure was destroyed. Haiti lay in ruins. The earthquake generated a huge outpouring [...]

2015-01-09T00:00:00+00:009th January 2015|
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