Rebuilding community in the wake of the 2004 tsunami

Report on the longest and most intense study of social recovery from the tsunami, involving RMIT and Monash University researchers in partnership with AusAID, Australia¿s official aid agency. The focus has been on three themes: political and institutional factors affecting RP design and delivery; the rebuilding of economic self-reliance; and to distil a set of `best practices¿ for use by AusAID and policy-makers in the ongoing rehabilitation of tsunami-affected communities and in the design of future post-disaster interventions in developing countries, as well as the creation of stable and effective social institutions in resettled communities.