The Asian Tsunami: The challenge after the Jakarta summit

Publication language
English
Pages
7pp
Date published
07 Jan 2005
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, Tsunamis, Response and recovery
Countries
Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka
Organisations
Oxfam
Link
http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/policy/pp050107-tsunami
The emergency summit meeting held on 6 January 2005 in Jakarta represented world governments’ unprecedented response to the tsunami that struck the countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004.