A ripple in development - Norad

ForewordThis annotated bibliography and document review is part of a follow-upevaluation of previous studies on linkages between immediate relief, rehabilitation(or reconstruction) and development (LRRD) that took placearound eight months after the Indian Ocean tsunami at the end of 2004.The LRRD 1 evaluation was one of five studies carried out by theTsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) in 2005-06. Four TEC studies concentratedlargely on process issues – coordination, needs assessment,capacity-building and funding – while the LRRD part looked at outcomeissues as well: what were the consequences of successful and unsuccessfullinkages between the different stages of recovery?The purpose of the document review is twofold: one is to summarisecurrent knowledge about the issue of LRRD in the tsunami context andby this prepare for subsequent field based research for the LRRD 2 evaluation,which took place in October-December 2008; the other is to facilitatedocumentary search for other, future studies of the tsunami relatedreconstruction interventions and their outcomes and impact. Whenused on-line the electronic version of the annotated bibliography hasactive links which connect the reader directly to the full document.The present report is being published as a subsidiary volume to themain LRRD 2 evaluation report.It was said in 2005, when the TEC-LRRD evaluation was carried outas one of the five TEC studies, that a later follow-up would be necessaryin order to capture the rehabilitation/reconstruction and developmentaspects when the interventions had progressed further. The main LRRD2 evaluation report covers experiences from the four years after the disasterin Indoneasia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. A number of organisationsand government agencies have sponsored this evaluation and wehope that it provides conclusions and lessons learned that are useful formitigating the consequences of possible future disasters.We would like to warmly thank all those who have been involved withand contributed to the evaluation.Stefan DahlgrenChair, LRRD 2 Joint Steering CommitteeEvaluation Department, Sida, Sweden12 May 2009