ACTION AID: The Evolving UN Cluster Approach in the Aftermath of the Pakistan Earthquake: an NGO perspective

The aim of this report is to highlight issues which need to be “factored in” to the
development of the cluster approach. The intention is to provide an assessment of the practical value of the approach in Pakistan and the implications of this for future humanitarian response. Read more...

FRITZ INSTITUTE: Surviving the Pakistan Earthquake: Perceptions of the Affected. One Year After. October 2006

This report outlines the results of a survey of 621 Pakistani households in the five most-affected districts of the North West Frontier Province (Abbottabad, Batagram, Kohistan, Mansehra, and Shangla), conducted in August 2006, ten months after the earthquake.2 The earthquake-affected households were asked to record damage or loss by responding to questions of resource sufficiency before the earthquake, and almost one year later. Read more...

OXFAM. Keeping Recovery on Course: Challenges Facing the Pakistan Earthquake Response One Year On. October 2006

Survivors have begun rebuilding their homes, communities, and livelihoods — but as another hazardous Himalayan winter looms, urgent efforts are needed to ensure that people stay safe and the reconstruction process is not derailed.
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ALNAP: South Asia Earthquake 2005. Learning from previous earthquake relief operations - Part- 1

This briefing paper provides a synthesis of key lessons learned from relief responses to past earthquakes. The main intended audiences are operational decision-makers and relief programme managers working in the South Asia earthquake relief operation. As agency personnel have expressed a need for clear and concise guidance, this paper aims to provide this, rather than detailed context on earthquakes or the affected region. Read more...

ALNAP: South Asia Earthquake 2005. Learning from previous earthquake relief operations - Part - 2

This second briefing covers targeting, participation, assessment, shelter and housing, risk reduction and policy, drawing out main lessons in each area and highlighting critical sources for further reference. Read more...

GUARDIAN: One year on, Pakistan's desperate refugees pray for another miracle

Shelter is precious in the refugee camps along the rocky road north of Muzaffarabad, the battered capital of Pakistani Kashmir. Hardly an inch is vacant as tents, rickety shelters and half-destroyed houses jostle for space along a narrow strip of land between the steep mountains and a rushing, slate-blue river. Read more.....

GUARDIAN: Living with the last quake, preparing for the next

It has been a year in which Goal UK was in the forefront of efforts to help survivors in the Bagh region. The international aid and development agency has wrapped up its Bagh operation, in which it spent almost £5m and distributed £2m more in non-food supplies. Read more...

GUARDIAN: One Year Later, Earthquake Survivors Still Lack Proper Shelter

A year after last October’s massive South Asian earthquake, aid agencies are warning that nearly two-million people are facing a second Himalayan winter without proper shelter. VOA’s Benjamin Sand revisits one of the communities hit hardest by the October 8, 2005 quake and files this report on the disaster’s devastating legacy.  Read more...