Next steps for Aceh - What happens when the donors go home?
Event details
Indonesia Study Group
Date & time
Wednesday 10 November 2010
12.30pm–2.00pm
Venue
Seminar Room B, Coombs Building, Fellows Road, ANU
Speaker
Peter McCawley (Visiting Fellow, Indonesia Project, ANU)
Contacts
A considerable amount of aid was provided ’ by both the Indonesian Government as well as international donors – to tsunami-survivor communities in Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami of December 2004. The immediate focus of aid work following the disaster was naturally on the urgent needs of survivors. But longer-term issues are relevant as well. In recent years, there has been a growing body of literature which considers the long-term impact of large-scale disaster aid. The central issue is: Does large scale disaster aid help promote development in the long term? Or, as a recent Swedish-supported study of tsunami aid in Asia asked, is aid just A ripple in development? Aceh provides a key case study for the consideration of these issues. Six year after the tsunami, where is Aceh going? Has aid made a lasting difference? And what are the lessons for other countries (Haiti after the earthquake, or Pakistan after the floods) from the experiences in Aceh?
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