Reports

By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi, 03 February 2005 - In Sri Lanka, officials say bureaucratic incompetence has kept aid from reaching many victims of the December tsunami. The island country has received a steady inflow of international aid in the…

Merlin, the British medical relief agency, will rebuild seven major health facilities in Sri Lanka which were completely or partially destroyed by the Boxing Day tsunami. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Health has announced that Merlin will be a key…

News Release No:2005/308/SAR COLOMBO, February 2, 2005 -- Sri Lanka will need approximately US$ 1.5 billion to effectively implement a recovery and reconstruction strategy according to a preliminary damage and needs assessment released today by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the…

A. INTRODUCTION 1. At the request of the Government of Sri Lankan (GOSL), a joint mission comprising of staff from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), and the World Bank initiated a…

Overall situation As of 31 January, more than 234,000 families have been affected by the tsunami. 555,298 persons are displaced, whereof 405,614 stay with relatives or friends and 147,027 reside in welfare centres or camps (of which there are 309).…

Coordination The Director General of IOM, Brunson McKinley, arrived in Sri Lanka on Friday 28th January for a tour of the devastated regions, inspection of IOM field activities and to meet with Sri Lankan government officials, and representatives of aid…

Major DevelopmentsIDP populations While the number of IDP camps in schools has decreased since last week (from 169 to 153), IDP figures are on the rise. As of 30 January, the government figure for IDPs stood at…

Critical Issues for Children and Women Sri Lanka pursues rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts, especially in the North and East, in which women and children have been severely affected by the past 19 year long conflict between the Government and the…

It has been little more than a month since a tsunami wave swept the shores of Sri Lanka, killing tens of thousand of people, causing complete destruction in many coastal areas and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. IOM immediately…

More and more families in South India and Sri Lanka benefit from the relief programmes established by SOS Children's Villages. Many of them have received start-up support, construction of temporary shelters is in full swing and entire villages are…