Cover Note to TEC Recommendations Papers

The Tsunami Evaluation Coalition reports between them contain over 200
recommendations or recommendation-like comments. In order to facilitate their
accessibility and the possibility that they will be actively and widely considered,
ALNAP has extracted all of these recommendations and has arranged them under a set
of ‘issue’ headings, each of which is shorthand for a group of related issues. These
headline issues are Ownership, Accountability, Other actors, Funding, Human
resources, Linking relief rehabilitation and development (LRRD), Disaster risk reduction
(DRR), Regulation of performance, Needs assessment, Coordination, and Policy
coherence. A large proportion of the recommendations in fact have been placed under
more than one issue, for obvious reasons.

You will see from the attached documents, that we have laid them out in simple tables,
with the recommendations grouped under each of these issues in turn broken down into
sub-issues, and finally into even narrower issues, in the interests of making all 200+
recommendations digestible. Each individual recommendation is also marked with its
‘target’, although many of them are generically aimed at the whole humanitarian
community. Each recommendation also has the reference of where in which report it
comes from1.