Region: South Asia
Keywords: Knowledge Lab, Construction risk
Document Summary:
This document is extracted from Handshake Issue #9: Reconstruction.
Document Details:
Two decades of insurgency, instability, and conflict led to high rates of poverty in northern Uganda. By 2005, a measure of peace and stability had returned to the region, allowing for the demobilization and reintegration of former combatants and other war-affected populations.
In Sri Lanka, a cash-for-work program initially established to resettle 100,000 returnees following internal conflict actually assisted more than 250,000 returnees and quickly evolved into one of the largest sources of employment in the Northern Province.
Updated: June 27, 2022