Rehabilitating livelihoods following natural disasters

Half the world's poor live in coastal areas. These areas are often already under threat due to poorly planned development but challenges are made worse with natural disasters and climate change causing more floods and extreme weather events such as hurricanes.

In developing countries it is the fishing communities, the vast majority living in poverty along the coast, that are often the worst affected. Following the 2004 Asian tsunami, WorldFish and partners developed a framework to rehabilitate livelihoods following such natural disasters. WorldFish applied its approach following the November 2007 tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands and in the wake of hurricane Sidr that killed over 3,000 people, flattened villages, caused hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and affected up to seven million Bangladeshis.

This short video shows how one remote fishing community in Aceh is benefiting from rehabilitation efforts that put the community at the heart of planning and implementing new options for the future.

Click here for a brief on WorldFish's work with partners to rehabilitate livelihoods following natural disasters.