Assessments

I. Introduction a) Background A powerful earthquake of magnitude 9.5 in the Richter scale, with epicenter located just off the Northern part of the island of Sumatra, occurred in the early hours of 26 December 2004. It created a tsunami that…

Overview 1. The last three days of conflict in the town of Muttur between the Security Forces (SF) of the government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the LTTE prompted a mass exodus of people from Muttur by foot amidst severe…

Shobhana Rajendran David Veronesi Nasrudin Mohammad Alimudin Mala Summary Findings This study is a companion to an earlier study on Gender and Conflict in Mindanao that was heavily focused on the impact of armed conflict on women (including young…

Whilst Kabul's population is increasing on a daily basis, local officials seem unable to move ahead with the process of reconstruction. Authorities are unable to assume their responsibility and address urgent issues such as housing for the poor, water…

By Michael Flint and Hugh Goyder Executive summary This is a synthesis evaluation covering the international community's funding of the relief response to the tsunami of December 2004.(1) It is one of five similar thematic evaluations commissioned by the Tsunami Evaluation…

Introduction Since 1984, the Lutheran World Federation-Nepal, a humanitarian organization, has been launching programmes related to relief and rehabilitation, and people's empowerment for sustainable development. Kalikot district that lies in the Karnali Zone reeled under a natural disaster on April 10,…

Executive summary The tsunami struck the Indian Ocean region on 26 December 2004. In the 14 affected countries, over 225,000 people died or are still missing. Overall, an estimated two million people have been directly or indirectly affected, and 1.7…

By Jon Bennett (principal author), William Bertrand, Clare Harkin, Stanley Samarasinghe, Hemantha Wickramatillake Published by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) Executive summary Introduction Evaluating the coordination of humanitarian actors within the response to the tsunami of December 2004 provides an opportunity to reflect…

By Elisabeth Scheper, Arjuna Parakrama, Smruti Patel with contributions from Tony Vaux Published by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) Executive summary Introduction The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) initiated five parallel evaluations of the international response to the tsunami, of which this is one.…

By Ian Christoplos Executive summary The overall objective of this evaluation is to find out how operations and roles of the various actors were governed by ideas and practices regarding the linking of relief, rehabilitation and development (LRRD), and to assess…