tailieunhanh - Report of the Workshop on Fishing Communities and Their Livelihoods in the Tsunami Aftermath

Weishang Qu, head of modelling at the Millennium Institute, Washington DC, has examined the World Bank’s new sustainability indicators, including genuine savings, and found that they “are very much GDP dependent”. As genuine savings calculations start with GDP figures before adding and subtracting certain values, they will tend to justify increasing real GDP/economic growth as the central measure of development/progress. 22 Nations with strongly positive GDP are far less likely to obtain a weak or negative genuine savings result. In Expanding the Measure of Wealth 'high-income OECD' countries emerge with consistently strong positive results, whilst those for 'Middle East/North Africa'. | Report of the Workshop on Fishing Communities and Their Livelihoods in the Tsunami Aftermath Phuket Royal City Hotel Phuket 14-15th February 2005 1Opening ceremony Welcome address by the Governor of Phuket Province The Governor of Phuket welcomed representatives of local national and international organizations and thanked them their expressions of support. He stated that the two-day meeting would be an opportunity for all to share experiences and bridge gaps with communities. He remarked that all groups would need to work together for the objective of rebuilding the livelihoods of affected people to be met. Remarks by Khun Sanchai Tandawanit National Co-Director CHARM CHARM advised that the objective of the workshop was to allow donors to meet and exchange with concerned parties which include community representatives Tambon Administration Organizations TAO universities local and international NGOs and donor organizations. DOF had been providing emergency assistance since 26 December including in recovery of casualties fishing gear and property. A coordinating center had been established by DOF to provide relief and support to local fisher communities and plans established to meet their urgent needs as well short medium and long-term rehabilitation. Remarks by the Chairman Dr Sitdhi Boonyaratpalin Director General of Department of Fisheries Dr Boonyaratpalin welcomed all participants to the workshop and thanked the organizers and both local and international partners without whose cooperation the meeting would not have been possible. He advised that the Deputy Minister . Newin Chidchob was unable to attend and extended his apologies. Preliminary damage assessments of affected areas were completed by 11 January. More than 1 billion baht had been earmarked to fund relief and compensation for fishing communities of which 210 million baht had already been issued among 433 villages in line with the financial regulations of the government. This funding was sufficient