# Q3B · Discuss any 10 points that need to be considered during the Recovery Phase for a Tsun…

Subject: Disaster Management

Exam: TEE

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Actual older TEE paper · 100 marks · Q1 compulsory; any four of Q2–Q7

### Q3B. Discuss any 10 points that need to be considered during the Recovery Phase for a Tsunami Disaster. [10 marks]

#### Answer

Recovery after a tsunami restores services and livelihoods while reducing future risk. The sequence overlaps; urgent shelter and essential services may begin during response.

1. **Verify damage and needs.** Survey affected households, infrastructure, services and livelihoods with community participation.
2. **Maintain safe temporary shelter.** Provide accessible accommodation, privacy, water and sanitation while longer-term housing is arranged.
3. **Restore essential lifelines.** Prioritise water, power, communication and emergency access with responsible agencies.
4. **Support health and wellbeing.** Maintain health services, rehabilitation and psychosocial support; monitor actual risks rather than assuming every disaster causes an epidemic.
5. **Manage debris and contamination.** Separate hazardous material and dispose of debris safely through trained services.
6. **Restore education and social services.** Reopen schools and support children, older people and persons with disabilities.
7. **Support livelihoods.** Restore productive assets, market access and fair assistance for affected workers and households.
8. **Reconstruct safely.** Use hazard assessment, appropriate building standards and safer sites where necessary.
9. **Coordinate and account for assistance.** Use transparent eligibility, information sharing and complaint mechanisms to prevent exclusion and duplication.
10. **Review and prepare for recurrence.** Record lessons, maintain restored systems and improve plans, training, warnings and risk reduction.

#### Real case and learning connection · Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami shows how a large undersea disturbance can create destructive coastal waves. It also illustrates why coastal risk knowledge, detection, clear warnings and evacuation capability must work together; a monitoring instrument alone cannot move people to safety.