Training Manual-Learning Workshop on Recovery and Reconstruction

Ten years have passed since the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami of December 2004. The Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project (TGLLP) was created with a view to gathering, learning from and sharing experiences relating to the 2004 earthquake and tsunami, and other disasters in the region that occurred between 1993 and 2013. The project sought to deliver three principle outcomes: a global lessons learned study, a Discovery Channel documentary tracking the recovery, and a disaster recovery toolkit for recovery practitioners.

The Disaster Recovery Toolkit forms the third deliverable, and it is this that has been developed by the Tsunami Global Lessons Learned Project Steering Committee (TGLLP-SC) in partnership with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC). The ‘Toolkit’ is targeted at practitioners responsible for implementing recovery programmes, its objective to provide a ‘how to’ guide on development, implementing and managing complex post-disaster recovery programmes. This component of the toolkit, the Training Manual – Learning Workshop on Recovery and Reconstruction, is targeted at managers or practitioners responsible for implementing recovery efforts, providing a ‘how to’ for developing and managing complex post-disaster recovery programmes. The TGLLP Steering Committee hopes the guide will help to achieve effective facilitation of the Learning Workshops, which targets to enhance capacities of government agencies in formulating and implementing recovery and reconstruction interventions as well as to support development partners who support the process. The Guide aims to increase critical thinking and skills in formulating and undertaking recovery and reconstruction interventions that eff ectively address specific needs in different scenarios and conditions.