CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: Tsunami Accountability Report, 2006

At present, CCF is in the midst of a three-year plan of reconstruction and development including school and civic works construction, micro-enterprise
development and livelihood interventions, as well as child protection and early childhood development programs. Read more.,,

INDIA: Tsunami risks and solutions

A strategy report by the Ministry of Home Affairs on tsunami has been recently published The paper maps the tsunami risk areas in India. It also looks at specific design solutions against tsunamis and also other hazards in the coastal areas of
India, communication and warning systems and institutional and government arrangements as mitigation measures. Read more...

UNICEF: Tsunami Response: A Humanrights Assessment. 2006


One year after the tragedy, despite the tremendous efforts of local,national and internationalagencies, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process is fraught with difficulties.Even though all the affected countries have ratified international human rights instruments, they are failing to meet these standards in posttsunami relief and rehabilitation work. Read more...

AID WATCH: Australia's Aceh aid effort under fire

On the 27th February AID/WATCH and Eye on Aceh conducted the launch of our report “A people’s agenda? Reconstruction in post-tsunami Aceh”. A detailed report that combines the work of seven Acehnese researchers who spoke to more than 1000 people across 100 communities and examined almost 50 aid projects, the aim of the report is to highlight areas where improvement is required to
make the aid reconstruction effort a success in Aceh. The report catalogues the positive and negative aspects of the major donor contributors to Aceh and was released to wide acclaim. Below is some of the media coverage that attended the reports Australian release. Read more...


SRI LANKA: People’s Planning Commission for Recovery after the Tsunami

Presented to the Government of Sril Lanka. The government’s decision to set up a new structure responsible for tsunami recovery and rebuilding (under a programme called “Jaya Lanka”) presents a new opportunity to correct the weaknesses and errors in the planning up to now. This creates new hopes and expectations among the affected communities, the rest of the people and agencies within and outside the country who have so generously and enthusiastically joined in the reconstruction process. It is hoped that with these changes many of the problems, concerns and obstacles that existed would be solved. Read more...


INDONESIA: Johor Orphanage Brings Hope For Tsunami Children

Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman officially opened the orphanage last Feb 12. The orphanage is the 10th built by the Johor government but the first outside the state. Nine others are across the Melaka Strait, in Johor. RAYJ needs some RM150,000 a month for the orphans food, clothing and school expenses. RAYJ was the brainchild of Johor Orphanages Board of Governors member, Senator Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi, who was in Banda Acheh with the PEACE Malaysia volunteers assisting tsunami survivors. Read more...

ILO: Improving Employment and Livelihood in Countries Affected by the Tsunami

This document focuses on the post-tsunami reconstruction effort carried out by the International Labour Organization (ILO). It looks specifically at how thousands of people affected by the tsunami were helped to rebuild their lives through local economic activities and livelihood programmes. Read more..

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