Uganda : post-conflict reconstruction : country case evaluation / Alcira Kreimer ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Kreimer, Alcira.

World Bank. Operations Evaluation Department.

Series:

World Bank operations evaluation study.

Operations evaluation studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Bank--Uganda.

World Bank.

Economic assistance--Uganda.

Economic assistance.

Uganda--Economic conditions--1979-.

Uganda.

Uganda--History--1979-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Disaster Risk Management Series. ...Disaster losses include not only the shocking direct impacts that we see on the news, such as the loss of life, housing, and infrastructure, but also indirect impacts such as the foregone production of goods and services caused by interruptions in utility services, transport, labor supplies, suppliers, or markets. Although natural disasters have long been considered a tragic interruption to the development process, the development community now links disasters to development. An earthquake in San Fernando, California may suffer the equal amount of direct economic loss as an earthquake in Venezuela. The disasters differ in the recovery time and loss of life experienced by each country. In the end, the recovery factors become an issue of basic development. It is doing development right and making sure that human activities contribute to reducing disasters rather than exacerbating them. This volume contains work that was produced over the first two years of operation of the World Bank's Disaster Management Facility and led to the establishment of the ProVention Consortium in Washington, DC. It is organized into three parts. Part I on risk identification contains chapters on the economic impacts of natural disasters in developing countries, including flooding. It includes Buenos Aires as an example. It also presents time scales of climate and disaster. The second part explores aspects of reducing disaster risk. Part III examines strategies for developing countries to share and transfer disaster risk more effectively. This volume will be of interest to academics, the private sector, government and international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and Bank staff.

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Summary and Lessons Learned; Evolution of the Conflict; The Bank's Role in Brief; The Bank's Role in Aid Coordination; The Bank's Role in Stabilizing, Reforming, and Rebuilding the Economy; The Bank's Role in Rebuilding Human and Social Capital; Special Issues; Conclusions: Post-Conflict Lessons from the Uganda Experience; List of Persons Interviewed Annex; Endnotes; Bibliography; Operations Evaluation Department Publications

Notes:

At head of title: World Bank Operations Evaluation Department, OED.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).

ISBN:

1-280-09073-1

9786610090730

0-585-35794-3

OCLC:

495528111