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UN organisation signs livelihood support pact

Special Correspondent

Joins hands with NGO to help Nagapattinam district

NAGAPATTINAM: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok, has entered into an agreement with the Development Promotion Group (DPG), a Chennai-based non-governmental organisation, to initiate a community-based livelihood programme under the pro-poor public-private partnership project in Nagapattinam district.

UNESCAP, in July 2005, signed a trust fund with the Republic of Korea for projects on multi-hazard preparedness and comprehensive risk-reduction. Three areas - introducing practice in community based early warning systems in Sri Lanka, livelihood support for affected communities in India through public-private partnership and strengthening support for orphans and separated children in Indonesia - were identified for UNESCAP intervention.

R. Bhakther Solomon, Chief Executive Officer of DPG said on Thursday that the UNESCAP and the NGO would achieve the goal of livelihood support for the affected communities through the field project in Nagapattinam district.

Partnership crucial

UNESCAP observed that the collaboration of the NGO to facilitate partnership was crucial for the success of the project.

The organisation will identify a project to benefit about 30 to 40 families and the feasibility study is under progress. Mr. Solomon said that the DPG was actively engaged in tsunami rehabilitation services and it was now working in Nagapattinam district on a permanent shelter development programme.

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