Spinal rehabilitation trainingENGAGE Team:
Mott MacDonald
Providing technical assistance to the Chinese government in
post-disaster recovery and reconstruction planning following the
Wenchuan earthquake in May 2008.
Activities covered capacity building, participatory planning for
infrastructure rehabilitation, and support for the re-establishment
and improvement of specific services.
Disaster risk reduction, sound environmental management, pro-poor
planning and women's empowerment underpinned all activities.
Specific programmes included training in emergency management,
physiological rehabilitation and spinal injury rehabilitation,
village level environmental planning and support to improve the
design and management of rural water supply facilities.
Devastated buildings after the
earthquake
Emergency clinic (Photo by A. Redmond of UK
Med)
