Coordination of international humanitarian assistance in tsunami-affected countries

Author(s)
Bennett, J. et al
Publication language
English
Pages
91pp
Date published
01 Jul 2006
Type
Evaluation reports
Keywords
Accountability and Participation, Accountability to affected populations (AAP), Coordination, Disasters, Tsunamis
Countries
Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Organisations
Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC)

Objectives: The purpose of the evaluation is three-fold: (i) Assess the extent to which immediate and longer-term responses and strategies were guided by timely, relevant and adequate coordination arrangements and address the basic questions of: What was done well and why, and what could have been done better and how? (ii) Distil lessons learned for improving coordination practice for future crisis response, and recovery systems and processes i.e. in what way can future coordination arrangements be better organised, and their tools and services rendered more effective? (iii) Serve as a test case for undertaking joint but parallel inter-agency evaluations within a larger umbrella evaluation effort, the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition.