Rebuilding Sustainable communities: Assessing Post-Tsunami Resettlement Projects in Sri Lanka and India

Through a comparative study of five post-tsunami resettlement projects (RPs) in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and india, this practice-oriented research project will inform strategies for the rebuilding of sustaibable communities in regions affected by the 2004 tsunami. The aim is to distil a set of best practices for use by Australia's official aid agency and policy-markers in the ongoing rehabilitation of tsunami-affected communities and in the design of future post-disaster interventions in developing countries. The outcome will be the development of strategies which strenthen responses to post-0disaster resettlement neeeds.