Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and Monitoring System - TRIAMS Lessons learned in post-crisis recovery monitoring: Including 3rd Regional Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and Monitoring System (TRIAMS) Workshop, Bangkok, 2009

The Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and Monitoring System (TRIAMS) initiative was designed to sidestep obstacles to planning and coordination by instead improving government monitoring of the overall recovery through focus on some key agreed recovery outcomes and outputs. Since 2006, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Thailand have been employing the TRIAMS approach to help manage the completion of recovery interventions and to assess results, while highlighting remaining gaps. They have been assisted by TRIAMS partners IFRC, WHO and UNDP, with additional support from UNICEF, who are each interested in learning from the TRIAMS experience to help build suitable recovery management tools that could be available for use in future emergencies.

In 2009, 50 stakeholders representing governments and agency partners met in a third regional TRIAMS workshop in order to identify and share lessons with one another and examine how the use of data has improved the quality of decision-making. This report explores the themes and specifi c lessons that have emerged during this initiative with implications for further application of TRIAMS in the affected countries and as an approach
that could be used globally.