The Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster resulted in one of the largest relief and rehabilitation operations ever launched by the Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement. The Federation launched a systematic process of real time evaluations (RTE) in order to assist the Movement in ensuring high standards of accountability and good practices in the operations as well as enable it to continuously improve the efficiency, effectiveness and impact of its work. The first round of RTE (1st RTE) was carried out during the peak of relief operations in early February

Introduction
This is an initial report from the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC). The TEC is a collaborative effort by aid agencies (donor governments’ aid departments, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organisations, and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement) to improve humanitarian systems by learning from the response to the earthquake and tsunamis of 26 December 2004. Another aim of the TEC is to provide some accountability for the humanitarian system to both the giving and receiving publics.

Introduction

This report focuses on issues for the DEC. It is based on visits by the evaluation team to Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Somalia and desk studies of the response in Maldives, Myanmar

As the Special Envoy, former President Bush will represent the Secretary-General and the United Nations system in the national and international response to the 8 October earthquake in South Asia, leading the Organization's efforts and sustaining international political will to support humanitarian, medium-term and long-term rehabilitation, reconstruction and risk reduction.

Over =A3235,000 was provided for the building of 130 homes, community centres, medical clinic and rehabilitation centres for tsunami victims. Muslim Aid later contributed a further =A330,000 from

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan, on October 8, 2005, at 8:50 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The epicenter of the earthquake was located near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, and approximately 60 miles north-northeast of Islamabad.

Aftershocks continue in the affected

The money you gave to the emergency appeal has enabled us to deliver a comprehensive package of relief and rehabilitation in five countries.

ActionAid will not be stopping there. We are committed to continuing a three year programme of work that will ultimately see us spending over =A330 million in the region.

The scale of the tsunami was unprecedented and ActionAid's response was the biggest in its history. In India, Sri

Around 260,000 earthquake survivors have benefited from IR's projects in shelter, food security, health, water, education and livelihood.

IR has raised funds in excess of £10,600,000 for the Pakistan earthquake. In addition to this, organisations and individuals have donated several tonnes of aid goods worth millions of pounds to IR for distribution in Pakistan.

Opening Roads

Triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake, the tsunami pounded coasts along India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand and, although the official death toll is still unclear, the giant wave claimed more than 220,000 lives, conservative estimates suggest.

During the past year, ERD, under the