Tracking the money: international experience with financial information systems and databases for reconstruction

This note is part of a broader effort to provide reliable post-disaster financial information and analysis. In particular, it reports on international experience with the financial database systems, but with a particular focus on the post-tsunami DAD, as well as systems that could be potentially suitable - for example, the Bulgarian Development Cooperation Information System. This note analyzes the performance of most established reconstruction database systems and their management structures, and it highlights the challenges encountered when reconstruction money is tracked through these database systems.