Recovering from the tsunami: People's experiences in Sri Lanka

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 339-351

  Sarvananthan, Muttukrishna ^a   Sanjeewanie, H M P ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN AID; NATURAL HAZARD; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDONESIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 49249092550     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: 1469364X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09584930802312838     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Eastern and Northern Sri Lanka are conflict-affected regions.
2. Donor/Civil Society Post-Tsunami Steering Committee, Rebuilding Sri Lanka: Assessment of Tsunami Recovery Implementation (Colombo: Author, April 2005).
3. See also Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, 'Post tsunami Sri Lanka: Swindlers hold sway', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 40, No 17, 2005, pp 1683-1687.
4. For administrative lapses and/or corruption in tsunami relief in the east and south, see Department of Auditor General, Interim Report of the Auditor General on the Rehabilitation of the Losses and Damages Caused to Sri Lanka by the Tsunami Disaster on 26 December 2004 (Colombo: Author, 2005), 〈http://www.auditorgeneral.lk/ reports/〉, accessed 9 April 2006.
5. Niruj Mohan, Arvind Narrain, Nitin R. Deepu and Clifton Rozario, 'Relief and rehabilitation: Ensuring inclusion', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 40, No 15, 2005, pp 1493-1495
6. and Human Rights Center of the University of California (Berkeley) and East-West Center Washington, After the Tsunami: Human Rights of Vulnerable Populations (Berkeley and Washington, DC: Authors, 2005), pp 17-18. However, a village-level qualitative study has identified some instances of ethnic discrimination in certain districts of Sri Lanka
7. Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka and Colombo University Community Extension Centre, The Report on People's Consultation on Post Tsunami Relief, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Sri Lanka (Colombo: Authors, July-September 2005), p 5.
8. Development Policy Review, special issue on cash transfers, Vol 24, No 5, 2006, passim.
9. Disasters, mini special issue on cash transfers, Vol 30, No 3, 2006, passim.
10. For a literature review, see Paul Harvey, Cash and Vouchers in Emergencies (London: Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Policy Group Discussion Paper,2005)
11. Paul Harvey, 'Editorial: Mini special issue on cash transfers', Disasters, Vol 30, No 3, 2006, pp 273-276, and references therein
12. and Emmanuel Skoufias, 'Economic crises, natural disasters, and poverty', World Development, Vol 31, No 7, 2003, pp 1087-1102.
13. Shannon Doocy, Michael Gabriel, Sean Collins, Courtland Robinson and Peter Stevenson, 'Implementing cash for work programmes in post-tsunami Aceh: Experiences and lessons learned', Disasters, Vol 30, No 3, 2006, pp 277-296.
14. See Human Rights Center of the University of California (Berkeley) and East-West Center Washington, op cit, Ref 5.
15. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, C. Perumal Pillai, Razak M. M. Ghani, Satha Vivekananthan, Women, Transition and Change: A Study of the Impact of Conflict and Displacement on Women in Traditional Tamil Society (Colombo: IAWID, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung & Gala Academic Press, 1995).
16. Tsunami Housing Reconstruction Unit, Report, Reconstruction and Development Authority, Colombo.
17. Although according to the present survey the highest share of permanent shelters completed was in the north (57.4% of the total), according to the Tsunami Housing Reconstruction Unit the highest share of permanent shelters completed was in the south (67.2%). Hambantota district itself accounted for 43.4% of the total number of permanent shelters completed in the country by 31 January 2006; see Patricia J. Alailima, The Tsunami Reconstruction Response: Sri Lanka (Colombo: Transparency International, 2006), p 26. This inequity in permanent shelter building was due to political patronage, because Hambantota is the home district of the present President of Sri Lanka who was the Prime Minister at the time of the tsunami until November 2005.
18. The government stipulated that no house or building should be built within 100 metres of the coast in the south and within 200 metres of the coast in the east and north. However, because of its unpopularity, in late 2005 (just prior to the Presidential election) this limitation was reduced to 50 metres and 100 metres, respectively. These were further reduced in early 2006 after the election of the new President.
19. Action Aid International, Tsunami Response: A Human Rights Assessment (Johannesburg: January 2006)
20. 'Tsunami: Learning from the humanitarian response', Forced Migration Review, special issue, July 2005, pp 42-47, 〈http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/Tsunami/full.pdf〉, accessed 9 April 2006
21. Human Rights Center of the University of California (Berkeley) and East-West Center Washington, op cit, Ref 5, pp 13-26
22. and Oxfam International, Back to work: How people are recovering their livelihoods 12 months after the tsunami (Oxford: Oxfam, 2005).
23. Action Aid International, op cit, Ref 15
24. Forced Migration Review, op cit, Ref 15, pp 19-29
25. and Human Rights Center of the University of California (Berkeley) and East-West Center Washington, op cit, Ref 5.
26. The Reconstruction and Development Authority is the successor to the Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation set up by the government immediately after the tsunami to coordinate tsunami reconstruction.
27. The idea of establishment of ombudsman offices was originally mooted by the Human Rights Center of the University of California (Berkeley) and East-West Center Washington, op cit, Ref 5, p 3.
28. 〈http://www.tsunamispecialenvoy.org/financial/〉, accessed 11 October 2006.
29. See Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, 'The International tsunami aid architecture, recovery policy and security: A critique', paper presented at the ASEAN Roundtable, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, Singapore, November 23-25 2005
30. and Action Aid International, Real Aid: An Agenda for Making Aid Work (Johannesburg, June 2005), 〈http://www.actionaid.org.uk/_content/ documents/real_aid.pdf〉, accessed 9 April 2006.