UN-Habitat’s development plan for conflict-affected areas
UN-Habitat’s development plan for conflict-affected areas
The New Light of Myanmar, 06 Aug 2014
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Yangon, 5 Aug — According to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), a community infrastructure project was implemented last year contributing to the development and rehabilitation in ethnic minority areas in Myanmar. The project was funded by Japanese government and implemented in 10 townships of Kachin, Shan, Kayah and Chin states, with the coordination of the Department of Rural Development under, Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development.
The project focused on most vulnerable and impoverished families and villages in these townships and supported those communities to build their most needy community infrastructure to improve quality
of life, U Myint Aye, Senior Engineer (Infra) of the UN-Habitat told the New Light of Myanmar recently.
The UN-Habitat has successfully implemented the development programmes in about 509 villages in 10 townships in those states as of July, 2013 with K4.421 billion funded by the Japanese government.Communities in those areas actively participated in construction of roads, bridges, reservoirs and school latrines as well as hand-dug or tube-wells. Under the project, communities were provided rain water collection tanks for public places, solar power units. Training on environmental sanitation and hygiene education were conducted for the communities by the UN-Habitat, he added.
The UN-Habitat is now implementing the projects for supplying water in dryregions such as Pale, Budalin and Monywa townships as well as Shwepyitha Township in Yangon under Shae-Thot (Way Forward)
programme funded by USAID.Participants of project faced transportation difficulties and getting skilled workers in constructionsites, U Myint Aye said.
The project focused on most vulnerable and impoverished families and villages in these townships and supported those communities to build their most needy community infrastructure to improve quality
of life, U Myint Aye, Senior Engineer (Infra) of the UN-Habitat told the New Light of Myanmar recently.
The UN-Habitat has successfully implemented the development programmes in about 509 villages in 10 townships in those states as of July, 2013 with K4.421 billion funded by the Japanese government.Communities in those areas actively participated in construction of roads, bridges, reservoirs and school latrines as well as hand-dug or tube-wells. Under the project, communities were provided rain water collection tanks for public places, solar power units. Training on environmental sanitation and hygiene education were conducted for the communities by the UN-Habitat, he added.
The UN-Habitat is now implementing the projects for supplying water in dryregions such as Pale, Budalin and Monywa townships as well as Shwepyitha Township in Yangon under Shae-Thot (Way Forward)
programme funded by USAID.Participants of project faced transportation difficulties and getting skilled workers in constructionsites, U Myint Aye said.