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'An Appeal': Appeal to support community rebuilding after the Gujarat earthquake. Prema Gopalan, February 2001.
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'Attention Points': Attention Points towards a community driven rehabilitation policy after the Gujarat earthquake, Prema Gopalan, Swayam Shikshan Prayog, February 8, 2001.
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Oxfam India : e-news for corporates.
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GUJARAT EARTHQUAKE : HEALING THE WOUNDS - OXFAM INDIA'S INTERVENTIONS "A mission to put people back on their feet": Community Based Rehabilitation of physically challenged/ disabled people.
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IN ACTION - Oxfam India Newsletter (July- August 2001)- 'Starvation' deaths in Orissa, Gujarat earthquake and more...
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'Lessons from the Epicentre': Mainstreaming Women's Initiatives in Disaster and Development. SSP, May 2001. SSP's experience after the Latur quake in 1993, after the Turkey earthquake in 1999, and now again in Gujarat this year, showed the importance of developing learning tools and owning its practices.
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'Margin to Mainstream April 2001': SSP. After the earthquake struck Gujarat on January 26, 2001, Swayam Shikshan Prayog along with the Sakhi Federations* joined hands with the local government and development organisations in order to partner with communities at the grassroots.
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'Margin to Mainstream' SSP Newsletter: May-Sept 2001'. Sharing SSP's post-earthquake rehabilitation experience with post-earthquake affected communities in Gujarat as part of SSP's capacity building effort.
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'Redesigning Reconstruction': SSP, April 2001 Women's Collectives at the Centre of Rehabilitation in Latur. Describes on SSP's experience in building community resource centres to organise women's groups and creating space for their self-empowerment is one of its aims in the reconstruction effort.
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'Responding to earthquakes: People's participation in Reconstruction and Rehabilitation': Prema Gopalan and Upmanyu Patil, Swayam Shikshan Prayog - SSP presented in the Seminar on "Organization and Infrastructure for Disaster Management", held in NIAS Bangalore on 25th August 2001.
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IN ACTION - Oxfam India News Letter - EMERGING CRISIS in Gujarat Moral victory over drug multinationals.
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