El Salvador - GFDRR

144 | El Salvador: Damage, Loss, and Needs Assesment
2) Programs
• Establishment of solutions for temporary lodging.
• Provision of basic social services to the population living in temporary conditions.
• Psychological-social protection and community organization to improve coexistence during the
temporary phase.
Key aspects
• Establishment of solutions for temporary lodging.
i) The establishment of solutions for temporary lodging will consider alternatives such as: a)
organized settlements, b) spontaneous settlements, c) in situ, d) payment for leasing and
other modalities according to local circumstances.
ii) Avoid operating shelters in educational facilities during the school year.
iii) Ensure restrictions on occupation in high-risk zones.
iv) Demolish buildings that have remained in high-risk zones once the resettlement process
begins and allocate these public assets for low-risk uses.
v) Seek a temporary phase with a human-rights approach, aiming at conditions for strengthening
the family unit and providing dignity to the affected population.
vi) Keep in mind efforts to dismantle or withdraw from shelters and temporary lodging.
vii) Keep in mind the ongoing need to work together with local governments.
viii) Consider aspects of idiosyncrasy, culture and local reality.
• Provision of basic social infrastructure for the population living in temporary conditions.
Key aspects
i) Ensure the provision of safe water, proper sanitation, health care, adequate food and
nutritional care, and integrated social protection.
ii) Seek conditions of safety and coexistence and healthy recreational areas.
iii) Ensure the proximity of resources and employment sources.
iv) Ensure access to common spaces for the activities of sheltered families and promote their use
by humanitarian agencies.
• Psychological-social protection and community organization to improve coexistence during the
temporary phase.
Key aspects
i) Support for grieving and bereavement.
ii) Subsidization of public services aimed at households.
iii) Reestablishment of social and productive networks.
iv) Seek permanent lots as much as possible.
v) Organization of work safety and coexistence committees.