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Working Closely With Development Partners To Involve All Stakeholders
21 Feb 2005

COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: The tsunami needs assessment report for Sri Lanka issued recently was the result of close collaboration between three development agencies – the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation – and the Sri Lanka Government, the United Nations and civil society, including NGOs.

"It was first time such an extensive collaborative effort for large scale reconstruction and rehabilitation has been undertaken in Sri Lanka,” says Alessandro Pio, country director for ADB’s Sri Lanka Resident Mission in Colombo. “It presented considerable challenges, and we were also determined that the joint report would not be centrally driven, but would involve a consultative process involving stakeholders from all tsunami-affected areas around the country."

Apart from coordination meetings in Colombo, the joint needs assessment team sent specialist teams to different parts of the country to assess sector specific needs.

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ADB hosts a coordination meeting with World Bank and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) at ADB's resident mission in Colombo on 10 January 2005.	Alessandro Pio, ADB's country director for Sri Lanka, makes a point at the coordination meeting on 10 January. He is flanked by Peter Harrold (right), the World Bank's country director for Sri Lanka, and Shinya Ejima, JBIC's Chief Representative in Sri Lanka.	A meeting between ADB, World Bank and JBIC with the Presidential Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation (TAFREN), hosted by Mano Tittawella (center), chairman of TAFREN, on 10 January 2005.
Dinesha de Silver, of the Asia Foundation, at a meeting hosted by the World Bank between the development banks and NGOs on 11 January 2005.	The World Bank's Asta Olesen (center), a senior social development specialist, chairs a meeting between development banks and NGOs on 11 January 2005.	Bob Rinker (right), deputy country director of ADB's Sri Lanka Resident Mission, and Phil Bulmer, ADB consultant, prepare to board a helicopter for a joint needs assessment field trip to southern towns Hambantota and Ampara on 12 January 2005.
Members of the Japan Bank of International Cooperation team ready to join a joint needs assessment field trip to southern towns Hambantota and Ampara on 12 January 2005.	The joint field mission meets with Government Agent Herath Abeyweera in Ampara.	Internally displaced persons at a refugee camp in Ampara visited by part of the joint field mission on 12 January 2005.
Part of a tsunami-damaged rail line on Sri Lanka's west coast as seen from the air by the joint field mission on 12 January 2005.	Wreckage left by the tsunami at Hambantota harbor visited by a joint field mission on 12 January 2005.	Internally displaced persons at a refugee camp at the Buddhist temple at Ampara visited by a joint field mission on 12 January 2005.
Photos by Ian Gill, Principal External Relations Specialist, ADB

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