Reuters AlertNet - FACTSHEET: How does tsunami relief fit together?

Reuters AlertNet - FACTSHEET: How does tsunami relief fit together?: "FACTSHEET: How does tsunami relief fit together?
17 Jan 2005

Source: AlertNet


Tribal Nicobarese tsunami survivors queue for lunch at a relief camp in Port Blair, India.
Photo by PUNIT PARANJPE
The Indian Ocean tsunami devastated thousands of miles of coastline across an entire continent and triggered one of biggest-ever international aid operations. U.N. agencies, governments, Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, local relief charities, global NGOs � all sprang into action as the donor dollars rolled in.
How does a relief effort of such size and scope fit together? Who coordinates the different actors and channels the different flows of money?
Let�s take a deep breath and start with the United Nations, which is playing a leading role in bringing all the strands together. But which bit of the U.N. does that mean"