One of the biggest challenges faced by such a massive programme was in relation to its efforts to shift out of emergency and into recovery and development programming. Transition, and particularly the middle ground of recovery work, is an enduring challenge for Oxfam globally and indeed for the entire sector. For this reason, the Aceh-Nias team commissioned a learning review “to assist the wider organisation to learn from the process of transition programming in the Aceh and Nias programme.” The objective is “to explore and learn about what drives and what inhibits organisational transition down the continuum from emergency to recovery to long term development”.
