| Restoring livelihoods and helping people to start rebuilding their lives following the devastation of Cyclone Nargis is at the heart of UNDP’s dedicated two-year Integrated Community-based Early Recovery Framework (ICERF). The initiative builds on the Early Recovery Strategy prepared by the UN system and its partners in Myanmar and utilizes UNDP Myanmar’s existing capacity in the hardest hit region of the country, the Ayeyarwady delta.
 One year on: Considerable progress has been made towards easing the hardship and physical devastation that the cyclone inflicted. So far UNDP has been able to reach more than 260,000 people, initially through emergency
With facilitation by UNDP staff, a community identifies a list of beneficiaries for various assistance
response and relief assistance and subsequently through the early recovery initiative. The activities implemented have covered 580 villages in five of the most severely affected townships in the Delta – Bogalay, Mawlamyinegyun, Labutta, Ngapudaw and Kyaiklat.
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