Tsunami Recovery Grants

Just a month after the tsunami may seem early to think of the post-emergency phase, but unless policies are devised correctly now, piecemeal efforts will come when there should be a strategy in place. Many assistance proposals made so far have been predicated on depicting the disaster in terms of a job crisis. However, it should essentially be seen as one of recreating communities, and communities of networks and livelihoods. With this perspective, a rights-based approach to social protection is necessary, because the revival effort is mainly about recreating societal entitlements.