International Recovery Platform

This report attempts to capture some of the key lessons taught by the tsunami recovery process, as experienced by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, William J. Clinton.

ERRA’s health policy delineates guiding principles, guidelines and strategy for reconstruction in the earthquake-affected districts. The health component of Government’s ‘Build Back Better’ policy is based on the Humanitarian charter for minimum standards for health care, including the right to ‘health for all’ and respect of the dignity of the population affected by the disaster.

Newsletter: Housing by people in Asia, no. 16, August 2005

Among the tsunami’s victims were tourists, tycoons, a prince and many ordinary traders, workers, pilgrims and families enjoying their day off. But it was overwhelmingly the poor who suffered the