Post-Disaster Reconstruction Mission in Pakistan

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POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION MISSION IN PAKISTAN
POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION MISSION IN PAKISTAN
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POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION MISSION IN PAKISTAN
1.0 Executive Summary
The report covered post-disaster reconstruction mission of Federal relieve commission (FRC)
in Pakistan after the earthquake disaster in 2005 that left thousands of people homeless, dead and
others with severe injuries. RFC main mission after the outcome of earthquake was to provide
relief and reinstating misplaced citizens back to their homes to start a new life. Several factors
like corporations, support from other nations and different non-governmental organizations led to
its success. The success had impacts to the people as majority of people settled back to their
normal lives within shortest period and further strategies implemented to curb future massive
destructions. However, poor infrastructure and insufficient security were the major challenges
faced by the RFC in their mission. Although the organization overcame the challenges
successful, it slowed own the responses and took more time to be completed.
1.2 Key Findings
 2005 Pakistan’s earthquake disaster killed over 86,000 people and injured more than
69,000 with over hundred thousand families being left homeless.
 Over 600,000 houses, 6,400 km of road network, 6,298 education facilities, 350
health facilities, 3,994 water supply systems and 949 government buildings were
destroyed
 Different nations and organisations like UN and RFC collaborated during this period
to give relief to the disasters victims
 1 million tents, 6 million blankets and 400,000 emergency shelters were provided.

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POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION MISSION IN PAKISTAN
Table of Contents
1.0 Executive Summary.................................................................................................................2
1.2 Key Findings.............................................................................................................................2
2.0 Project Description..................................................................................................................4
2.1 Introduction..............................................................................................................................4
2.2 Description of the Context......................................................................................................4
2.3 Description of Mission/Project...............................................................................................5
3.1 Project Successes......................................................................................................................6
3.2 Impact of Key Successes..........................................................................................................6
4.0 Project Challenges and Failures.............................................................................................7
4.1 Impact of Key Challenges.......................................................................................................7
5.0 Lessons Learned.......................................................................................................................8
5.1 Replicating Key Successes...................................................................................................8
5.2 Avoiding/Overcoming Key Challenges..............................................................................8
6.0 Conclusion..............................................................................................................................11
References.....................................................................................................................................12

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POST-DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION MISSION IN PAKISTAN
2.0 Project Description
2.1 Introduction
Earthquakes are overwhelming common natural disasters that results to significant loss of
lives and damages billions of dollars of property. In the recent years, different countries have
seen several devastating earthquakes like 2005 Pakistan earthquake, 2008-Wenchuan earthquake,
2010 Haitian earthquake, 2010 Japanese earthquakes and 2015 napalms earthquake (Shaffer,
2018). The earthquakes resulted to damage of local eco-system environments and buildings,
psychological trauma of survivors and massive loss of lives. In order to prevent the massive
damages of properties and lives, different organizations came up with reconstruction strategies to
reconstruct the nation again and curb similar damages in future. Furthermore, there have been
increase in earthquake research raising societal awareness of why it is necessary to reduce
significantly the effects of potential earthquakes. Therefore, the paper seeks to study the
reconstruction mission of FRC in 2005 post- disasters, challenges, failures and lesson learned
from the disaster.
2.2 Description of the Context
The Kashmir earthquake occurred in 2005 at 08.05.39 Pakistan standard time in the
Pakistan-administered areas of Kashmir (Britannica, 2018). The epicenter of the magnitude 7.6
quakes was approximately sixty-five miles northeast of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city.
Despite earthquakes affecting Pakistan, it also affected neighboring regions of Afghanistan,
Chinese Xinjiang and Tajikistan (Mulvey et al., 2008). The overall severity of damage was
considered as the deadliest earthquake to ever hit South Asia. Furthermore, more than sixty-nine