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Livelihoods Post Tsunami

Build Back Better?

Publisher: Institute of Policy Studies

Place of Publish: Colombo

Year: 2005

Page Numbers: 10

Acc. No: 867-S

Category: Soft Documents

Languages: English

The workshop brought together over 70 stakeholders from local and central government, civil society, donors and private sector working on post tsunami livelihood issues. The workshop conclusions were that: Livelihood recovery must focus on upgrading key sectors such as fisheries, tourism and small and medium scale entrepreneurs to achieve pro-poor growth; At the local level, economic recovery plans must be implemented led by poor households with local government and inputs from NGOs; To achieve national upgrading and local level economic recovery requires. Source: Livelihood Post Tsunami