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This acts as an index to mentioned organisations and suppliers, via profiles under:
. Fund providers and regulatory bodies (Funds)
. Recipients of funds and donations like Red Cross, NGOs, UN, other agencies (Aid organisations)
. Shipping needs and logistical providers (Logistics)
. Mining and construction needs, items that engineers and others specify for procurement (Suppliers and providers)

Links: Who's Working pages of other sites
Oznewz cat-a-list on AC's sister site which covered the Asian Tsunami rescue and relief period
Indonesia-Relief Org which covered the first six months of R&R (rehabilitation and reconstruction), with AC as Aust correspondent.
e-Aceh  - links for Govt of Indonesia, local government, international institutions, donors, international NGOs/local LSMs and media links.
Alertnet - Reuters' humanitarian news network.
Reliefweb - site administered by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
ACFID  - Australian Council For International Development's - includes member Australian NGO links.

Funds

World-wide donations to NGOs and aid funds from governments have helped Indonesia's BRR in a promised $8.5 billion following the Dec 2004 tsunami.
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank ADB lead in financial institutions organising the funds flow from governments. But some governments have set up special bilateral institutions, like the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Reconstruction and Development AIPRD for distributing A$2 billion pledged over five years.

Key to the allocation and use of funds and NGO donations is the locally based BRR - the Indonesian Government's Bureau of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction for Aceh and Nias. BRR announcements are reported by e-Aceh-Nias and main media.

Agencies through which government aid funds are channelled:
Australian Agency for International Development AusAID, New Zealand Agency for International Development NZaid, United States Agency for International Development USAID, ACIL Australia

Aid organisations

At Aceh’s north-most tip, the city of Banda Aceh has become the local base for many of the UN agencies involved like the UN Development Programme UNDP,  UNHCR, Red Cross/Red Crescent's international arms IFRC and ICRC and national arms like the Indonesian Red Crescent and American, British and Australian Red Cross - also internationally affiliated NGOs* like those of Care International, Oxfam (UK-based), World Vision and many others incuding local Indonesian NGOs and non-affiliated NGOs.
Australian NGOs and Australian Council for International Development, ACFID.
American NGOs  - see under 2. IA's list of US names/websites.
*NGOs = non government (aid) organisations.

Logistics

Nias, being offshore from North Sumatra and Aceh province, required a sea bridge for relief supplies after it was hit again by a Force Eight earthquake on Easter Monday 2005. This led the logistics arm of World Food Programme WFP to organise and manage a shipping service for north Indonesian waters. WFPSS is funded to provide freight-free services to NGOs and other shippers, using vessel charters with up to 15 front-ramp landing ships of 500 to 1200 tonnes cargo deadweight.

WFPSS-chartered landing ships operate in continuous flow of reconstruction materials to Aceh and Nias coastal points, from Indonesia's nearest container shipping feeder port which is Belawan, Medan, on the east coast opposite Singapore - the main hub port for world container shipping to the region

Before the WFPSS was set up, the bulk transport mode was road from Medan, in TNT, Unilever and other road operators' 10-to-20 tonne trucks, across the razor-back ridden roads of North Sumatra's mountains.

The overland trucking route was organised by International Organisation for Migration IOM, already well established in Aceh through its support to victims of the war  waged by Aceh separatists against Indonesian Government forces.

UNHCR - providing timber and logistics.
Transport/logistics profile
Ozmodal page - compilation of Australian logistics news.

Suppliers and providers

Items that contracting engineers, architects and others specify for reconstruction needs:
See profile for Partner Housing with a  Product Directory  about products and suppliers specified in the Electronic Blueprint editable specifications.
Others: Pentarch Forest Products, Peterson Portable Sawmills
Aid consultants/contractors: Sinclair Knight Merz
Advice on sources of supply nationally: Austrade - Australian Trade Commission ,  NZ Trade and Enterprise

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