Post conflict and post disaster reconstruction and the right to adequate housing 2011, para. 27
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- This subsequent wave of violence and dispossessions prompted a well-considered and ambitious set of remedial actions in the form of a National Recovery Strategy (NRS) called Hamutuk Hari'I Futuru (Together Building the Future) launched in December 2007. The five pillars of this strategy focused on: IDP return and resettlement; establishing a social security system for the most vulnerable groups in society; addressing security issues including working with communities to identify and address sources of conflict; creating livelihood opportunities through job generation schemes; and building trust within communities and between the people and the government. However, various aspects of the strategy were not implemented. For example the range of options that was initially stated to be available to returning IDPs was drastically cut - essentially limited to the mass payout of cash compensation amounts. Ultimately these payments, combined with a reconciliation and dialogue process (discussed below), constituted the extent of the programme implemented to return or resettle IDPs and reconstruct housing. As of July 2010 payments were still being made and in total there had been approximately 17,000 recipient households. Under the circumstances of potential further disturbances and lack of State capacity there were good arguments for giving people the funds with which to address their own housing and immediate livelihood needs. The approach also allowed for individually tailored solutions for housing and livelihood restoration. However there were a number of problems from a human rights perspective, including the following: (a) most payments went to male heads of households, with no measures in place to ensure that the funds would be spent on housing for the whole family; (b) families under severe financial stress could be under pressure to use the cash payments to cover more urgent, short-term expenses instead of housing; (c) through resorting to cash payments, the State missed an important opportunity to channel funds towards the provision of properly serviced sites for housing.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/42, para. 27.
- Paragraph number
- 27
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