ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has managed to secure more than $10.5 billion in flood pledges which will be met in three phases – short-term for up to one year, medium-term for up to three years and five to seven years. Long term. – to rebuild flood-affected areas, JEE News reported Tuesday.
The cash-strapped nation made good on its pledges at a one-day international conference on climate-resilient Pakistan in Geneva after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif launched an $8 billion flood relief appeal, aimed at flood relief. It was to help the country to overcome the disaster.
With an economy of $350 billion, the country received pledges of $8.57 billion by the end of the full session I, while it managed to receive more than $2 billion in the second session.
According to the Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Framework (4RF), there were four Strategic Recovery Objectives (SRO). SRO 1 involves strengthening the capacity of governance and state institutions to restore the lives and livelihoods of affected people. In particular, the most vulnerable SRO1 seeks to rebuild the governance-related physical infrastructure that has been damaged and destroyed by floods, as well as restore and enable a governance structure and system that improves efficiency, effectiveness, Promotes transparency and inclusiveness.
Key will enable all levels of government to develop and respond to natural hazards and climate change through gender-aware and community-led, structural and non-structural risk reduction initiatives, including ecosystem adaptation and land Through landscape restoration.
Strategic priorities include short-term objectives, such as improving public financial management, public procurement, audits, and anti-corruption measures, while medium-term objectives, such as conducting detailed and local multi-risk assessments and data at the local level. Integration into decision support. systems and long-term objectives, such as strengthening climate monitoring and early warning systems and increasing the technical capacity of climate change and environmental management agencies at the federal and provincial levels.
Strategic Recovery Goal 2 includes the recovery of livelihoods and economic opportunities. It seeks to restore livelihoods and economic opportunities through a multi-sectoral approach. It has two main pillars – promoting livelihood recovery through agriculture and employment recovery and expanding economic opportunities through trade, industry, tourism, markets and financial interventions.
Strategic priorities include short-term objectives, such as direct cash contributions, in-kind information, and cash-for-work interventions, as well as job restoration through e-commerce and job guarantee programs. Meanwhile, medium-term objectives, such as rehabilitation of damaged public and private infrastructure using broad employment practices and implementation of business regulatory reforms and long-term legal, policy and institutional reforms for credit market development Long-term goals Community investment funds without interest-free loans or microfinance institutions through local non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Strategic Recovery Objective 3 includes ensuring social inclusion and participation. It seeks to ensure that no one is left behind and that mainstreaming approaches are taken so that social inclusion leads to social sustainability. Strategic priorities include short-term objectives, such as the provision of protection services, psychosocial support, and the adoption of community-driven development approaches.
Meanwhile, medium-term objectives include establishing missing facilities and more robust protection for those more vulnerable to violence, tracking and exploitation and long-term objectives such as the acceleration of community-level disaster preparedness activities with social inclusion and gender equality sensitivity, school meals programmes targeting for the most vulnerable, multi-purpose cash grants for the most vulnerable (women and children) and rehabilitation of flood-affected heritage sites.
Strategic Recovery Objective 4 includes restoring and improving basic services and physical infrastructure in a resilient and sustainable manner. It seeks to restore basic social services for the affected communities and carry out resilient infrastructure rehabilitation and reconstruction, support led by strengthening human capital, institutions, and policies to respond to future disasters.
Strategic priorities include immediate and short-term objectives, such as supporting reconstruction and rehabilitation of housing, prioritising the most vulnerable, repairing and improving existing physical infrastructure, repairing water infrastructure and strengthening weak sections before the next monsoon.
The medium-term objectives include a detailed technical evaluation of damaged transport and communication infrastructure, improvement of contingency plans and their performance in the health sector and long-term objectives, such as the establishment of a regulatory framework and tariff structure for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and municipal services, enhancing the disaster resilience of the energy distribution network, a flood susceptibility analysis of the entire infrastructure network, and climate and disaster-resilient rehabilitation of irrigation, drainage, dams, and dikes.
