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Mother and child living in an internally displaced person's camp in Sri Lanka.
© WWF-Canon/Yoshi Shimizu
The Indian Ocean Tsunami:
Five Years Later
Five years have passed since the Indian Ocean tsunami swept over countries in Asia and East Africa taking the lives of 230,000 people and destroying the livelihoods and environments upon which millions depend. Thanks to survivors, international and local communities, NGOs, and governments, great strides in recovery and reconstruction have been made since this devastating event, however there is still work to be done. WWF’s Humanitarian Partnerships program asks you to take this day to remember those we lost, to think of those that remain in the affected regions and to look to a future where a healthy environment can play a necessary role in disaster risk reduction, mitigation, and recovery.
WWF is working directly with humanitarian organizations and governments to advise them on better practices for rebuilding communities impacted by disaster. The goal of our Humanitarian Partnerships Program is to ensure that recovery and reconstruction efforts include environmentally sustainable considerations. To reduce risk and vulnerability and achieve long-lasting results for affected communities, the recovery and reconstruction process must be comprehensive and include a 'design through implementation' approach to ensure restoration of livelihoods, protection of natural resources, and strengthening of communities against future disasters.
The Humanitarian Partnerships Program was borne out of collaboration with the American Red Cross to ensure sustainable reconstruction in countries ravaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami including Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, the Maldives and Indonesia. Since then, the program has worked on the Philippines oil spill in 2006, Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh in 2008, Cyclone Jokwe in Mozambique in 2008, and the Sichuan Province earthquake in China in May 2008.
- WWF's Green Reconstruction Policy Guidelines
- WWF and American Red Cross Partnership for Tsunami Recovery
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