Disaster Recovery Assessment 20-25 oct 2009- village1

After quick NFI distribution all 3 teams got together; reflected on learnings and experiences, there was a greater need of long term program as the flood this year has lasted longer then it usually.. the typhoon KETSANA and rainfall in vietnam has aggravated the flooding condition in river Stueng Seng and Mekong.

So we decided to run a "recovery needs assessment" from 20-25 oct.

we did pre-assessment planning on 19th oct; discussed whole day about purpose/ objectives/ tools and guidelines for the assessment.

We have planned to look in to Publich Health and Food security -livelihood section for "recovery"

I was allocated for Kampong Thom District team.. with me Francis [Comms Oxfam-Quebec] , Phally [PHP-OGB], Sakha [Log-OGB], Khim [PC -OGB], Psareth [FSL- OX Aus].

We did through planning on 19th and started journey to KT [Kampong Thom] on 20th, arrived at 12;30 ..

straight on business... we got togehter and finalised our logistic plan for villages to visit and people to visit.

in the evening we visited PCDM [Provincial Council of Disaster Management] head.. he was good and explained many things to us. we requested him to send some people to join us on assessment mission.

he promised to send 3 person from MoH, MoRD, DM...

we were happy next day we had a schedule to start at 6:30 am.. it was too early for me... .. but i gathered courage and got ready by 6:20.. walked up to office.. surptisingly i was the first one.... :)

we took almost 45 min. more to gather the team.. we had two cars.. one from oxfam and one from "caritas" we had 2 people from "caritas cambodia" on board too..

we were still going around in KT town.. some one want to pack break fast.. Caritas want to fill the fuel... and other car went to pick up govt. officials..

finally govt. officials came at 8:30 am... just 2 hrs late..... so we could start our journey at 8:45..

we have had nasty road on the way.. broken, muddy, slippery.. .. our car s tucked twice...

finally we reached near to the first village..Kampong Svay and the assessment place chosen was Pagoda.. we had to take boat to go to pagoda.. 10 min. by boat...

so here we are .. in pagoda.. conducting assessment.