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GETTING COMMUNITIES BACK ON THEIR FEET
When a disaster strikes, TCP projects are able to meet urgent needs - acting swiftly to help ensure that affected households will be able to feed themselves. The TCP's approval process is put on a fast track to accelerate delivery of essential agricultural items (such as seeds and vaccines) that can support the immediate recovery of productive capacity.
When an emergency occurs and help is requested, FAO will normally make an on-the-spot assessment, often using local expertise, and assist the government in drawing up a plan of action for immediate assistance, if required. On the basis of this assessment, TCP may provide expert advice together with limited amounts of the most urgently needed equipment, supplies and supporting services, pending the arrival of more substantive assistance from other sources. While TCP emergency aid is transitional in nature, it may also include the services of FAO in mobilizing larger external resources for rehabilitation programmes, and in starting up coordination of emergency assistance.
A TCP project does not provide emergency food aid.
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Many Tsunami recovery projects throughout South East Asia are being implemented in 2005 using TCP resources.
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