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Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, H.E. Robyn Mudie addressing the gathering at the inaugural session of the conference.
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Jean Gustave Fourez, Charge d'affaires of the European Union Delegation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, addressing the inaugural session of the conference on 24th March 2014.
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Yoshinobu Fukasawa, Director of the UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, welcomed the participants at the inaugural session. Copyright: UN-Habitat
A Home owner from Mulllaithivu district in the Northern Province, Ms. Sinnavan Susi at the interactive discussion on ‘Housing reconstruction in a post emergency setting: perspectives from the field’.
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Home owner from Kilinochchi in the Northern Province, Mr. Sinnarasa Sivakunalan at an interactive panel discussion on Day 2 on ‘Housing reconstruction in a post emergency setting: perspectives from the field’
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M.S. Wickramarachchi of the Presidential Task force on Resettlement, Development and Security of the Northern Province, highlighted achievements of the Sri Lankan Government’s resettlement programme. Chairs of the technical sessions are seated from left to right: Disa Weerapana, Kirtee Shah, Lalith Lankatilleke, Jan Meeuwissen, Laxman Perera and Somsook Boonyabancha.
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Interactive discussion on day 2: Sandra D'Urzo, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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Interactive discussion on day 1: Lara Davis, Auroville Earth Institute, India.
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Mr. Kirtee Shah, Architect, chairing the session on 'Rebuilding safer and sustainable communities'
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Technical Session “Housing Reconstruction As ‘people’s processes’ in practice”in progress. From left to right: Somsook Boonyabancha (Asian Coalition for Housing Rights), H.M. Dayananda (Real Estate Exchange Private Ltd and Centre for Housing planning), Anurag Srivasta (Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India), Jaime Royo-Olid (European Union) and, Lalith Lankatilleke and David Evans of UN-Habitat.
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Shailaja Fennell, Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, speaking on ‘Reconstruction as a form of Intervention: examining the role of local institutional mechanisms in building social cohesion’ at the Session on Ensuring enabling environments.
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Conference participants.
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Piyal Ganepola and Indu Weerasoori of UN-Habitat Sri Lanka at a panel discussion on ‘Rebuilding of safer and sustainable communities’.
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Jaime Royo Olid, European Union Delegation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, speaking at the concluding session of the conference on 25th March 2014.
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Dhammika Gunawardhana, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities addressing the gathering.
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Jean Michel Jordan, Director of Cooperation of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Sri Lanka, addressing the inaugural session.
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Jan Meeuwissen of UN-Habitat chairs the session on reconstructing enabling environments for rural households.
Lara Davis, Auroville Earth Institute, India, speaking on Building with Earth: Sustainable Resource Management with CSEB during the session on Safer and Sustainable Housing.
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United Nations V-Force Volunteers are acknowledged for their support by Saman Ekanayake, UN-Habitat Programme Manager.
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Registration of participants on Day 1 of the conference.
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A cross-section of the participants at the inaugural session.
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A cross section of the participants at the conference.
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Discussions at the Marketplace on Day 1 of the conference.
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Participants discuss the information and methodologies presented at the Marketplace.
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