Infrastructure rehabilitation
SOME RESULTS FROM THE UN-EU PARTNERSHIP IN INFRASTRUCTURE
REHABILITATION IN 2009:
Sri Lanka: Roads were rehabilitated, and small sanitation infrastructure was developed and rehabilitated to improve ground water quality. A total of 70,000 people-days of work were created.
Iraq: 200 schools were rehabilitated, benefitting 100,500 students, 62% of whom were girls.
Haiti: After the floods, 16,000 unemployed people participated in communal food-for-work activities repairing and cleaning schools so children could go back to a partly normal life. They also rehabilitated agricultural land, roads and canals to restart agricultural production.
Occupied Palestinian Territory: 30,562 shelters were repaired in Gaza.
Partnership in action
Below are selected results from the Report in some key areas
- Landmines and small
arms
- Women and conflict
- Refugees/internally displaced
- Infrastructure rehabilitation
- Disaster risk preparedness
- Tackling hunger
- Health
- Water supply, sanitation
- Education
- Child protection
- Democratic governance
- Human rights
- Rule of law, justice and security
- Fighting drugs, smuggling and trafficking
- Environment
- Decent work/vocational training
- Migration and development
- Trade
Human face of partnership
Below are select example from the Report of concrete country specific projects that resulted in improving the lives of individuals
- Albania: free from mines
- Victims of torture in Iraq
- Keeping hope alive in the world’s largest refugee camp
- Road rehabilitation in DRC
- Safer cities in Bangladesh
- Saharawi refugees
- Agricultural cooperatives in Chechnya and Ingushetia
- Water changes lives in Sudan
- Nutrition and medical support to vulnerable in Kenya
- Plumpy’nut help children recover from under-nutrition in Ethiopia
- Cyclone victims in Myanmar
- Regional cassava initiative in Central and Eastern Africa
- Midwives in Sudan
- Eradicating the Guinea worm in Ghana
- Public Private Partnerships bring water to rural people in Somalia
- Orphaned children in Lesotho
- Psychosocial support in Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Traditional practices help local development in Uzbekistan
- Supporting Parliament’s dialogue with citizens and media in Tanzania
- Bhutan embraces environmental mainstreaming
- Palestine refugee women gain valuable skills
- Meat market in Somalia
- Improved storage of crops in Mozambique


