Cyclone Sidr, a category 4 cyclone, made land fall in the southern and central coastal belts of Bangladesh on 15th November 2007. The cyclone affected 30 out of 64 districts mostly in the southern part of the country. More than 3,400 people were killed, 55,000 people injured and over 2 million families were made homeless. The financial cost of the disaster was estimated at $1.7 billion. The consequence of Sidr was mainly felt through the destruction of housing and loss of livelihoods (including agriculture crop production, assets such as fishing boats and nets, and other business). A few national NGOs (including BRAC, Grameen Bank, ASA and Proshika) had been working in the affected areas prior to the cyclone, mainly focused on microfinance and education, and a few had experience of disaster management. Following the cyclone international and national NGOs launched relief operations in the most-affected districts. Concern Worldwide Bangladesh was one of the international organizations that extended their operations to offer relief support in the affected areas. Concern provided support to Sidr-affected areas through three local Partners; SPEED Trust, SHANGRAM and Dhaka Ahsania Mission. These three Partners had experience of implementing emergency response and rehabilitation programmes in other parts of Bangladesh. Both SPEED Trust and SHANGRAM are based in Sidr affected areas, and were already Partners of Concern Worldwide Bangladesh. Concern provided financial and technical support to the Partners for implementing the emergency and rehabilitation project. One Concern staff was appointed to each partner’s project to provide the technical support for ensuring quality services.