Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and Monitoring System (TRIAMS) report 2009 “Maldives 4 Years after the Tsunami” is now available here.

The newly available report gives a description of the current status as well as the development over time in some key indicators of the tsunami recovery process. The information for most of these indicators has been collected from all affected areas on a regular basis, but with decreasing frequencies over time as more and more components of the recovery process neared completion.

Under the auspices of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) a system was developed for recording the recovery process in the four most tsunami-affected countries. Known as TRIAMS (Tsunami Recovery Impact Assessment and Monitoring System), its implementation in the Maldives has supported the recovery effort in a variety of ways.

TRIAMS groups all indicators under four categories: (a) vital needs; (b) basic services; (c) infrastructure and (d) livelihoods. Under each category, there are indicators for outputs of recovery interventions, as well as indicators of the outcomes on affected populations.