The Great East Japan Earthquake Joint Review Report on Relief Activities by the Civil Society - from the Perspective of NGOs for International Cooperation -

This project is intended to review the relief activities by civil society organizations that entered the disaster-stricken areas after the Great East Japan Earthquake (referred to as "external aid organizations" hereinafter) and record the issues/problems and their causes in order to provide lessons for similar cases in the future.

Focusing on the relief activities conducted in one year after the disaster, we carried out interviews, workshops, focus group discussions and questionnaire surveys with persons who were engaged in assistance of external aid organizations such as residents and staff members of external aid organizations and local organizations, administrative agencies and the Social Welfare Councils.

This book categorizes those issues/ problems in 10 themes and reviews them based on internationally recognized evaluation criteria.