Appendix C: Index of Cases¶
This book draws on real cases. This appendix gathers them in chronological order of the disaster, with the chapter where each is told, what it teaches, and the type of source behind it. It does not tell them a second time.
The "Source" column gives the type of document and how reliable it is: evaluation (evaluation report or published study), official (document from a government or an international organization), institution (figures published by the organization that ran the project, with no outside check), Rotary (Rotary publication, with no independent evaluation), press (newspaper or magazine article), testimony (account by someone involved, reported by a third party). Full references are in Appendix E.
The opening cases¶
| Case | Chapter | What it teaches | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kobe (Japan), 1995 earthquake: the shoe workshops of Nagata | 1, 7 | the city recovers, the neighborhood does not; time works against the small players | official, secondhand figures |
| Haiti, 2010 earthquake: the madam sara and the markets of Pétion-Ville | introduction | markets restart before aid arrives, and imported aid competes with them | field report, single source |
| Haiti, 2010 earthquake: Fonkoze, one-time grant, debt canceled, new loan | 1, 6, 10, 13, 15 | a lender that knows its clients acts within weeks | institution |
| Sri Lanka, 2004 tsunami: the Colombo warning about too many boats (2005) | 5, 12 | a productive asset handed out without counting what already existed ruins the people you mean to help | official (FAO, ministry) |
| Joplin (United States), 2011 tornado: 530 employers visited in three weeks | 3, 15 | assessment starts with showing up, peer to peer | testimony reported in a practitioners' manual |
| Shiogama (Japan), 2011 tsunami: the first tuna boat returns to the fish auction | 4, 8 | the day a value chain runs again is a signal for the shift | testimony published by a trade organization |
| Omoe (Japan), 2011 tsunami: the cooperative shares its boats | 8 | a collective rule restarts fishing without debt | official (reconstruction agency) |
| Christchurch (New Zealand), 2011 earthquake: the Re:START temporary mall | 9, 14 | organized merchants reopen a place before reconstruction | official and press, no evaluation |
| Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan in 2013: aligned wages and the Concepcion boatyard | 12 | coordination protects local labor markets | evaluation |
| Nepal, 2015 earthquakes: the National Reconstruction Authority and the NGOs | 2, 7, 12 | government leads, everyone else fits in | evaluation (collection of case studies) |
| Nepal, 2015-2017: trained masons, mobile masons | 7, 14 | a skill is only worth something when tied to demand | evaluation |
| Bangladesh, 2020 Jamuna flood: cash paid before the water | 15 | acting early protects work tools, not necessarily income | evaluation (comparative study) |
| Beirut (Lebanon), 2020 explosion: a global grant for the Karantina hospital | 10 | the real timeline of a global grant; separate walls from equipment | Rotary |
| Türkiye, 2023 earthquakes: the three-pillar strategy of three districts | 11 | a district organizes for recovery during the relief phase | Rotary (appeal from a district leader) |
| Hassa (Türkiye), 2023: the phone survey of the business park | 13 | what honest monitoring proves and does not prove | evaluation (project report) |
| Anilao (Philippines), Typhoon Haiyan: 55 boats handed to the fishers' association in late 2018 | 2, 11, 14 | prepare the handover and the ownership of assets | Rotary, single source |
The other cases¶
| Case | Chapters | What it teaches | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Namibia, 1989 drought: a government emergency management unit, backed by WFP | 14 | hand over to an institution that stays | testimony (WFP representative, reported in a practical guide) |
| Bangladesh, 1998 floods: microfinance clients and rescheduling | 6 | reschedule case by case rather than write off | evaluation |
| Gujarat (India), 2001 earthquake: owner-driven reconstruction | 9 | aid paid in installments and local craftsmen put the local economy to work | evaluation and NGO |
| Aceh (Indonesia), 2004 tsunami: reconstruction as an economy that stops | 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 14 | prepare what will replace the construction boom | official (multi-donor fund) |
| Zimbabwe, food aid program described in 2005: fifteen cattle dip tanks rehabilitated with 360 workers | 14 | the activity is not the exit; train the people who will maintain it | NGO, reported in a practical guide, single source |
| Sri Lanka, 2005: grants to microenterprises allocated by lottery | 6 | the same amount does not have the same effect in every trade | evaluation (randomized trial) |
| Sri Lanka, 2005: subsidized loans at 6% | 5 | cut-price credit can drive defaults up | evaluation |
| Pakistan, 2005 earthquake: an end date for relief; training craftsmen | 4, 7 | a political date helps change modes; a skill can outlive the construction work | official |
| New Orleans (United States), Katrina in 2005: businesses reopening | 1, 3, 13 | a business reopens if its neighbors reopen | evaluation (published studies) |
| Lebanon, 2006, after the war: a method carried over (vocational training and employment) | 7 | start from the employer | evaluation |
| Haiti, 2010-2011: paid rubble clearing, then payment by the cubic meter | 4, 7 | paid work must announce how it will change and end | official (UNDP) |
| Port-au-Prince, 2010: rice and the small wholesalers | 5, 8 | in-kind aid depresses local markets; find the broken link | evaluation (market analysis) |
| Les Cayes (Haiti), October 2011 rains: Fonkoze's catastrophe microinsurance | 15 | the cancellation and the payout covered about half the losses; the rest was mostly indirect | evaluation (small sample) |
| Port-au-Prince, 2011: the Iron Market reopens | 9 | a reopened place does not bring its customers back on its own | press |
| Christchurch, 2011: the first month for small businesses | 1 | the surroundings (access, power, water) close businesses | evaluation |
| Minamisanriku (Japan), 2011: temporary shops | 9 | keep the merchants in place | official |
| Shizugawa Bay and Watari (Japan), 2011: rebuild less, but better | 8 | a disaster can change the way people produce, if the producers decide | official and certification body |
| Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan in 2013: final evaluation of the CARE program | 13, 14 | 73% of assisted households earn an income, 2,785.15 pesos a month against 2,000; speak of contribution; sustainability expected, not measured | evaluation |
| Tacloban (Philippines), 2014: planned end of cash transfers | 4, 14 | announce the end from the start | evaluation |
| Leyte (Philippines), 2014: International Labour Organization programs | 7, 14 | restart what exists rather than create; what does not survive | evaluation |
| Nepal, 2015 earthquake: recovery loans funded by an Asian Development Bank grant | 6, 13 | 99% repayment at maturity in July 2018, but loans disbursed fifteen to thirty months after the earthquake | institution (funder's report) |
| Khokana (Nepal), 2017-2018: training women through a global grant | 7, 10 | the realistic scale of a club project | Rotary |
| Nepal, 2015: the District 3292 plan | 11, 12, 15 | how a district organizes itself | Rotary (plan, not results) |
| Puerto Rico, 2017 hurricanes: small businesses without power | 1, 13 | a lost service closes a business; survivorship bias | official (Federal Reserve) |
| Dominica, Hurricane Maria in 2017: social protection as a channel | 15 | build on an existing public system | evaluation |
| Beira (Mozambique), Cyclone Idai in 2019: grants to microenterprises | 6 | small sums restart some trades, not all | evaluation (randomized trial) |
| Beirut, 2020: rapid assessment of businesses | 9 | assess in a few days, business by business | NGO |
| Dadu (Pakistan), 2022 floods: planting support | 8 | farm aid must arrive before planting time | evaluation |
| Hassa (Türkiye), 2023: prefabricated business park | 9 | four players for one temporary place | evaluation (project report) |
| Mozambique, El Niño drought in 2023-2024: anticipatory action in nine districts | 15 | indicators also improve among non-beneficiaries; look for what the system does not cover | evaluation (WFP qualitative study, thirty interviews) |
| Romagna (Italy), 2020, during the pandemic: an example of assessment method, not a disaster; from donations to hospitals to assessment | 3, 5 | assess before you give | Rotary |
What this index shows¶
Two things, which the book also says in its chapters.
First, Rotary cases of economic recovery are few in public sources, and none has had an independent evaluation. They are documented by Rotary's own publications.
Second, the most precise studies come from wealthy countries (United States, Japan, New Zealand) or from programs run by large organizations. Their mechanisms hold elsewhere; their figures do not.
If your club runs a recovery project, document it: baseline, indicators, results, failures. It could appear in a future edition of this index.