TSUNAMI EVALUATION COALITION: Joint evaluation of the international response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Synthesis Report

This report evaluates the adequacy, appropriateness and effectiveness of the assessment of need in the first three months after the tsunami. It focuses on the impact of assessment on the response of international agencies and institutional donors and, ultimately, on the affected populations. Read more..

WOMEN'S BANK: Credit to help people rebuild their lives remains this network’s first disaster rehabilition tool


Women’s Bank (WB), a national network of women’s grassroots savings groups, has been undergoing a huge expansion of its women-run savings and credit groups in tsunami-hit areas over the past 18 months. Read ACHR Newsletter. Click here to Read ACHR Newsletter..

ASIAN COALITION FOR HOUSING RIGHTS: Community driven tsunami rehabilitation.


Report of the Networking Event on “Community-driven tsunami rehabilitation”, which was held on June 20, 2006, as part of the World Urban Forum, in Vancouver, Canada. This event was an attempt to bring the people – who are the real development workers – to present their experiences and their ideas. Read more..

INDIA: Tsunami Recovery: Sustainability, poverty, and the politics of Aid.
Dr. Vandana Shiva.

Aid that uproots coastal trees and coastal people, while rebuilding polluting industry, and constructing "sea walls" is a form of economic cannibalism. It is destroying the very basis of ecological survival and of our humanity. Tsunami recovery needs above all the recovery of our ecological security, our common humanity and the human dignity and human rights of all citizens of the earth, especially the victims of disasters like the Tsunami. Read more..

TSUNAMI EVALUATION COALITION: Funding the tsunami response: A synthesis of findings

This is a synthesis evaluation covering the international community’s funding of the relief response to the tsunami of December 2004. This synthesis is based on 30 evaluation reports covering bilateral donors, UN agencies, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, non-government organisations (NGOs), funding from the general public, and the local response in the tsunamiaffected countries.
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INDIA: The Memory of a Memorial

The tsunami is not forgotten, but in Keechankuppam the fishermen have weighed the risk of another tsunami against the prospects for finding safer housing further inland. And so their huts are back again on the once-ravaged beach, as though the tsunami never happened, writes Dilip D'Souza. Read more

TSUNAMI EVALUATION COALITION: Imact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities (July 2006)

The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the impact of the tsunami response, primarily the role of international actors, on local and national capacities for relief and recovery, and risk reduction. Read more...

INDONESIA: Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities Indonesia country report (Aceh and Nias). April 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...

SRI LANKA: Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities Sri Lanka country report (April 2006)

This report seeks to assess how the spectrum of international actors and their
national partners fared in delivering goods and services, in enhancing the access of affected populations to the relief and recovery process, and in holding themselves accountable to claim-holders. Read more...


SRI LANKA: Coordination of Iinternational humanitarian assistance in tsunami-affected countries Evaluation findings

This case study examines how coordination, or the lack of it, had an impact on the
Tsunami response in Sri Lanka. Read more...

INDIA: The International Community’s Funding of the Tsunami Emergency and Relief Local Response

This evaluation was part of the overall evaluation by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition. It is a thematic evaluation of the funding response by the various governments, UN agencies, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs, and other local actors including individuals. The overall study of local response was coordinated by the ADPC and the section for India, with the field study focused on Tamil Nadu, was carried out by the Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC). Read more..

INDONESIA: Links between relief, rehabilitation and development in the tsunami response

Evaluation of the Linkage of Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD)
Regarding Interventions in Connection with the Tsunami Disaster in December 2004.Read more..

UNDP: Survivors of the tsunami: One Year Later - Assisting Communities to Build Back Better

This report is a snapshot of UNDP’s assistance to the recovery and reconstruction
efforts for the past year. It is meant to provide examples of how UNDP is helping
people who survived the tsunami rebuild their lives now, and for the future. Read more

SRI LANKA: Links between relief, rehabilitation and development in the tsunami response

The Sri Lanka Case Study, as one component of the Evaluation of Linking Relief to
Rehabilitation and Development (LRRD) in tsunami interventions, attempts to identify some of the successes and challenges faced by those in need, and to ascertain to what degree the initiatives for relief, rehabilitation and development taken by the population were enhanced or hindered by actions taken by outsiders. Read more..

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH: The role of needs assessment in the tsunami response

This report evaluates the adequacy, appropriateness and effectiveness of the assessment of need in the first three months after the tsunami. It focuses on the impact of assessment on the response of international agencies and institutional donors and, ultimately, on the affected populations. Read more..

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND HEALTH: Impact of the Tsunami on Psychosocial Health and Well-Being. International Review of Psychiatry, 18 (3): 217 - 223.
The Tsunami highlighted a number of pre-existing factors that made some people especially vulnerable and brought out the ways in which displaced people are especially affected. Major social and demographic shifts occurred, and the social fabric of displaced communities was eroded. Read more

SRI LANKA: The International Community's Funding of the Tsunami Emergency and Relief Local Response

Local response report on the internaional community's funding of the tsunami emergency and relief. Read more...

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. Read more... 

INDIA: FINAL SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS of the Consultation on Tsunami Recovery - The past, the Present and the Future,

Consultation held on 22nd & 23rd September 2006 at Chennai. Organised by Goverment of Tamil Nadu. Read more