Needs Assessment of Bam Stricken - People
During the First 30 Months of Earthquake
Farokh Parsizadeh
Faculty Member of Disaster Management Dept.
International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, IIEES
parsi@iiees.ac.ir1Bam Earthquake : Dec 5 - 2004

Time: 5:28 morning
Magnitude: 6.4
Number of Death: 31.830
Number of Injured: 17.500

2Bam before the Earthquake3üNewsletter “Citizens and Participation” have been
published (by one of the professors at Kerman university,and supported by World Health Organization (WHO), sixmonths after the earthquake.
üContent analysis of 52 editions of newsletter, which were
published 6 months after earthquake, for 2 years from July13, 2004 to July 12, 2006.
üContents of all 52 editions of newsletter have been divided
First 54 in variables (Issues), after merging similar ones 47
variables are analyzed.
4Bam after the Earthquake

5Children’s issues
Joblessness‎Drug addiction
Guilds problems‎
People's participation in reconstruction
Sanitary facilities (restrooms, bathrooms)
Environmental health care
Women’s issues
Loans issues
Problems of gardeners and farmers
Temporary sheltering issue‎
Transportation problemsTenants and those who did not own land
Welfare facilities
Water shortages
Phone problems
Temporary tents issues‎
Kindergartens issues ‎Health care and medical facilities
City beautification
Non-natives issues
Insurance activities‎
Healthy City Committee
Goods distribution booklets‎
Supervision of the recostruction
NGOs activities
Villagers issues‎
Schools issues‎
Elderly issues
Small temporary shelters
Child friendly city
Reconstruction issues
FireLack of fuel ‎Press
Workshops
Collective wisdomActivities of women cooperatives
Expectations from authorities
Neighborhood expectations ‎Expectations of family
Promising events
Disappointing events
School and university student’s issues‎
Financial problems of residents
Security ‎Neighborhood issues
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Variables and Issues in the newsletterü Children’s issues:Lack of parks and play grounds
Orphan children
Labor childrenChildren's futureü Joblessness:
University graduates
Employment of non-locals

ü Drug addictionü Guilds’ problems
ü People's participation in reconstructionü Sanitary facilities (restrooms, bathrooms)
ü Environmental health care:
Garbage
Disinfection
Sewage system
Dustü Women’s issues:
Women as caretakers of families
Responsibilities of labor womenü Loans issues
7Variables and Issues in the newsletterü Problems of gardeners and farmers
ü Temporary sheltering issueü Transportation problemsü Tenants and those who did not own landü Welfare facilitiesü Water shortages
ü Phone problemsü Temporary tents issues
ü Kindergartens issues
ü Health care and medical facilities:
Active health care and medical centers
Problems of people with spinal disordersü City beautification
ü Non-natives
ü Insurance activitiesü Healthy City Committeeü Goods distribution booklets
ü Supervision of the reconstructionü NGOs activitiesü Villager’s issues
ü Schools’ issues

8Variables and Issues in the newsletterü Elderly issuesü Small temporary sheltersü Child friendly cityü Reconstruction issueü Fireü Lack of fuelü Pressü Workshopsü Collective wisdomü Activities of women cooperativesü Expectations from authoritiesü Neighborhood expectations
ü Expectations of family member from each otherü Promising eventsü Disappointing eventsü School and university student’s issues
ü Financial problems of residentsü Security issuesü Neighborhood issues

9Children’s issues
Joblessness‎Drug addiction
Guilds problems‎
People's participation in reconstruction
Sanitary facilities (restrooms, bathrooms)
Environmental health care
Women’s issues
Loans issues
Problems of gardeners and farmers
Temporary sheltering issue‎
Transportation problems
Tenants and those who did not own land
Welfare facilities
Water shortages
Phone problems
Temporary tents issues‎
Kindergartens issues ‎Health care and medical facilities
City beautification
Non-natives issues
Insurance activities‎
Healthy City Committee
Goods distribution booklets‎
Supervision of the recostruction
NGOs activities
Villagers issues‎
Schools issues‎
Elderly issues
Small temporary shelters
Child friendly city
Reconstruction issues
FireLack of fuel ‎Press
Workshops
Collective wisdom
Activities of women cooperatives
Expectations from authorities
Neighborhood expectations ‎Expectations of family
Promising eventsDisappointing events
School and university student’s issues‎
Financial problems of residents
Security ‎Neighborhood issues
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Reconstruction of Governmental Offices12Remarksü Mass media have significant role to exchange information between
people and decision makers.
ü Earthquake occurrence can be a golden opportunity for media to present
their role for dissemination of information among affected people basedon news speed, accuracy, and precision news.
ü The overall assessment shows in addition to daily needs of affected
people, psychological and social aspects of this group of society should
be considered as a priority after the earthquake.
üIt seems understanding needs of earthquake-stricken people can leaddecision makers on disaster management to arrange better planning to
reduce negative impact of social effects after earthquake.
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