Sustainable Exit Strategies for Tsunami Related Programmes, by Sanayi Marcelline, ICES, Colombo and Oxfam International, 2010. 49p.

This study identifies good practices in implementing closure for post disaster relief programmes. The findings and recommendations of the study draw on the experiences of aid organizations/INGOs and implementing partners, that were engaged in tsunami related rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes and on the opinions of the beneficiary communities. The main focus of the study is to identify how aid organizations/INGOs could formulate exit strategies that ensured the sustainability of programmes once aid interventions came to an end.

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