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Mother and child living in an internally displaced person's camp in Sri Lanka.
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WWF is working directly with humanitarian organizations and governments to advise them on better practices for rebuilding communities impacted by disaster. The goal of our Humanitarian Partnerships Program is to ensure that recovery and reconstruction efforts include environmentally sustainable considerations. To reduce risk and vulnerability and achieve long-lasting results for affected communities, the recovery and reconstruction process must be comprehensive and include a 'design through implementation' approach to ensure restoration of livelihoods, protection of natural resources, and strengthening of communities against future disasters.

The Humanitarian Partnerships Program was borne out of collaboration with the American Red Cross to ensure sustainable reconstruction in countries ravaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami including Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, the Maldives and Indonesia.  Since then, the program has worked on the Philippines oil spill in 2006, Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh in 2008, Cyclone Jokwe in Mozambique in 2008, and the Sichuan Province earthquake in China in May 2008.

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  • A member of the HPP team traveled to Chile to participate in the Rapid Environmental Impact Assessment carried out by the WWF Chile office and international disaster management consultant, Charles Kelly, regarding the environmental damage caused by the February 27th earthquake and tsunami and the potential risk to the environment from the subsequent reconstruction activity.
  • A member of the HPP team is working as Environmental Advisor to the Emergency Shelter Global Cluster in Haiti focused on shelter assessments, sourcing of sustainable building materials, and collaborating with assessment teams from the United Nations to support an ongoing Camp Risk Assessment.
  • The Humanitarian Partnerships team conducted pilot testing of the Green Recovery and Reconstruction Training Toolkit (GRRT) in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, November 2009.
  • WWF led a Green Recovery and Reconstruction Training (GRRT) Toolkit pilot workshop at the request of Mercy Corps and Save the Children in Padang, Indonesia for 18  representatives of organizations such as Oxfam, Habitat for Humanity, UNDP and Mercy Corps. The training focused on building capacity to plan, develop and design humanitarian aid projects such that they reduce and or eliminate the key impacts on the environment. December, 2009
  • WWF developed and conducted an environmental stewardship training workshop in Banda Aceh, Indonesia for 75 Grameen Foundation loan officers that work in Aceh Province. This workshop was intended to raise awareness of environmental issues associated with microfinance lending. December, 2009

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Anita van Breda

Director, Humanitarian Partnerships

"By working together we can rebuild communities and the environment upon which they depend, to be stronger, more sustainable, and more resilient to future disasters."

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