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Under the guidance of the Ministry
of Housing & Common Amenities, National Housing Development
Authority (NHDA) with the assistance of Tsunami Housing
Supporting Project (THSP) of GTZ has developed modules for
capacity building and trained more than 1000 officials and
community leaders in Tsunami affected areas in the coastal belt
of Sri Lanka.
With the above experience a
special module has been established to “community managed
operation and maintenance systems” and International Federation
of Red Cross (IFRC)/Spanish Red Cross has requested to the NHDA
to introduce the above system to the Tsunami donor driven
housing project which were implemented by IFRC and Spanish Red
Cross.
The agreement on the above
programme has been signed by the NHDA and IFRC and Spanish Red
Cross recently. The General Manager of NHDA Mr. L.S.Palansuriya
has signed the agreement on behalf of the NHDA and Mr. Barry
Armstrong, Deputy Head of Delegation, IFRC has signed the
agreement on behalf of the IFRC.
With this programme NHDA will be
implemented a special workshops on based of community managed
operation and maintenance system in Colombo, Ampara, Batticaloa,
Galle, Matara and Gampaha. This will cover more than 700
housing units and more than 1500 officials and house holders
will participate these workshops within the next 04 months.
The main objective of this
programme is to find solutions of the problems faced by the
house holders who are presently occupied these housing schemes.
Mr. Andrea Lorenzetti,
Construction Delegation of IFRC, Mr. Nagi Edirisinghe, Project
Manager, Community Engagement Exercise, SLRCS and Mr. Dammika
Gunawardena, Assistant General Manager (Special Projects) of
NHDA also participated in this event of signing of agreement.
29th April 2009.
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