Community Recovery and Reconstruction Partnership

The Community Recovery and Reconstruction Partnership (CRRP) programme was established by the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Sri Lanka Red Cross
Society (SLRCS) and the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) in 2006 to assist
Tsunami affected families in selected districts in Sri Lanka. The aim of the programme was to rebuild their
houses and support in the recovery of their lives. Programme activities concluded in early 2009. CRRP is
an ‘owner-driven’ programme, in which the owners are in charge of rebuilding their own house1. The
support provided by CRRP followed two different schemes: a) a top-up cash grant which supplemented
the basic grant from the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), a separate grant for sanitary latrines and
technical assistance; and b) full cost coverage, where total grant was provided for the reconstruction of
houses, in the absence of the GOSL basic grant. In addition, the CRRP provided a grant for the repair or
improve community infrastructure and for the promotion of livelihoods development.
CRRP has been the largest Red Cross (RC) Programme in Sri Lanka and one of the major programmes
of the Red Cross Movement (RCM) worldwide, with a budget of almost 57.7 m USD, consisting of a Base
Grant Programme by the World Bank through the Government of Sri Lanka (25 m USD and approx.
11.000 beneficiaries) and the Top-Up/ Full Cost Programme (32.7 m USD and nearly 5.500 beneficiaries).