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Asian Development Bank

This report documents the Asian Development Bank's response to the Asian Tsunami, reflecting on what has been achieved in the months since the disaster. Issues covered are: immediate response; funding of reconstruction efforts; coordination of rehabilitation and reconstruction; corruption prevention in Tsunami relief; collaboration with governments, development partners, and other stakeholders; and ongoing reconstruction.

Some of the challenges, constraints, and lessons learned through theses processes are:

• the need to take proactive measures in future: instituting risk reduction measures before disasters strike
• understanding that "reconstruction" is "development", not "relief" (the first stage response focusing on the immediate needs of affected people) or "rehabilitation" (the restoration of previously existing facilities and services up to the same standards)
• the need to build local administrative capacity, both on the part of local government and by civil society, and to ensure transparency and accountability in the use of the vast funds contributed to the tsunami relief and recovery effort
• ensuring adequate consultation with and participation from the affected population, communicate clearly to affected people what measures the government plans to take, any entitled compensation, and the policies to be applied during reconstruction
• the need to realistically gauge the recovery time required for tsunami-affected countries.

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