The destructive power of tsunamis leaves communities, infrastructure and people devastated.
The response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami confronted the humanitarian community with fundamental challenges. In the response's wake, the sector pledged to set new standards of accountability and transparency, ‘build back better’ and utilise the lessons learned to ensure improved responses in the future. This collection highlights key learning resources on tsunami preparedness and response.
For the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami, ALNAP will explore whether the emergency indeed served as an inflection point for humanitarian action and why collective learning as undertaken by the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) has not become a standard practice for humanitarian emergencies since.
Lessons from tsunami response
