Project profile — Peru Earthquake - IFRC Appeal 2007

• Peru (100.00%)

• Water And Sanitation: Education and training in water supply and sanitation (14081) (25.00%)
• Emergency Response: Material relief assistance and services (72010) (50.00%)
• Reconstruction Relief And Rehabilitation: Reconstruction relief and rehabilitation (73010) (25.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

On August 15, 2007, an earthquake struck Peru's southern coast. Measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, the earthquake destroyed 50,000 homes and devastated many communities. Overall, more than 200,000 families were affected by the quake. This project responds to the second revision of the Emergency Appeal by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Socieites (IFRC), issued on December 3, 2007. The goal of this project is to dramatically improve the conditions of the families affected by the earthquake, particularly those surviving without protection or living in provisional emergency camps and shelters. The project thus supports a transition from immediate emergency response to more sustainable humanitarian assistance.

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The project was focused on rebuilding homes in earthquake affected areas of Pisco, Chincha and Ica with the active participation of community members. It also included risk and vulnerability management against disasters, supported the reconstruction of community social centers, and the training of villagers in seismic resistance techniques with local materials. By the end of the project: 1 200 temporary shelters were built immediately after the earthquake, then the project supported the construction of additional houses using earthquake resistant materials available in the affected area (reinforced adobe, improved quincha or "quincha mejorada", and earth-cement blocks or "bloquetas"). By December 2009, 592 vulnerable families lived in their new houses. Prototypes were left so that beneficiaries could expand their houses on their own in the future. Approximately 1 500 inhabitants of the affected areas received training in first aid, disease and risk prevention, as well as in teamwork. Through the later and the process of reconstruction, communities were strengthened as well as the spirit of cooperation and solidarity among their inhabitants. The IFRC also developed different manuals on construction techniques and manuals including recommendations for addressing deficiencies in construction techniques using "adobe". It also provided direct support for employment generation, the creation of small enterprises and micro-cooperatives working in the elaboration and supply of building materials.

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