Application to Japanese Funding Agency has been submitted

On Friday 11th today, our application to Japanese Funding agency has been submitted.
The application will be reviewed by the agency managements in late May, and we will hear from them after that.

In any case, we will start our study by organising the first (preliminary) workshop by targeting the community people on April 24th. TDMRC focus groups will prepare the procedures to conduct the workshop, and various comments from participants on how they observe and judge the recovery & reconstruction states at Banda Aceh after 10 years from the 2004 Tsunami.

The following is an example of Kobe City study on how participants felt on the livelihood recovery & reconstruction;

We need to find out on what items Banda Aceh community people feel the recovery & reconstruction have been achieved, and on what items they feel not.

Also more importantly there should be a discussion on the future reconstruction or development of Banda Aceh after they have presented those have been & have not been achieved. This is a key discussion for creating a future vision of Banda Aceh, and a clear workshop procedure to conduct this discussion session is needed.