Final UN annex links reconstruction employment to domestic economic recovery

Iran reported that 22.2 million square metres of public buildings needed construction or rehabilitation in addition to residential and commercial space. The annex treated this as a reconstruction...

The annex listed 31 completed postal projects, 22 under construction and nine still to start. These project-stage counts are distinct from its count of damaged post-office buildings and do not show...

Khorramshahr’s post office covered 4,300 square metres, about one quarter of the total postal area requiring reconstruction. The annex reported that work had started, rather than that this major...

The UN mission warned that prolonged displacement could make former homes feel unfamiliar. Some displaced people had formed families with partners from other areas, complicating the assumption that...

The annex warned that children born after displacement would have to adjust to places unfamiliar to them when families returned. It identified a social-reintegration challenge beyond replacing...

The mission called for assessment of conflict-related environmental changes so returning populations would not face long-term contamination hazards. The annex made a precautionary recommendation,...

The mission warned that war-related environmental change could alter land’s ability to sustain former activities. It urged care to avoid returning people to areas that could no longer support their...

The annex urged greater earthquake resistance in new construction and inclusion of seismic risk in urban plans. It noted that much of the war-affected region was earthquake-prone, making...

The annex identified 200,000 homes destroyed by the recent earthquake as an additional reconstruction burden. These earthquake losses were separate from war-related housing destruction and should...

Iran faced shortages of cement and iron, the annex stated. It recommended international cooperation to establish local building-material industries using domestic raw materials to support settlement...