Within AIDMI's several projects evaluations that enrich the international agenda, work related to the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition (TEC) stands as a meaningful example.

The undeniable problems of the complex response to the tsunami for adequately reaching the neediest or most affected communities called for an evaluation whose findings could be kept as guidelines for future disaster responses. Some of the primary areas for improvement were therefore ownership, capacity and coordination.

AIDMI's performance within TEC is a cause-effect relation: it had both contributed to the creation of these guidelines and currently adopts its major findings in its plan of action. AIDMI's experience in the field is added-value as it can provide international partners with local insights of what happens at the grass-root level. Through this transfer of angle, the organization includes all existing perspectives in a single evaluation, enabling it to comprise local considerations into a global project. Its community-based actions are essential to steer the local capacities evaluations, bridging between global information and regional initiatives. Furthermore, all of AIDMI's activities rely on the major principle of needs assessments along with ownership to local communities. Whenever in action, AIDMI links with the different existing stakeholders, emphasizing the need of coordination and properly addressing its action. Local capacities, needs assessments and coordination: these are three of the main principles regarded under the TEC that imply the inclusion of communities on their own recovery process. Such participation has always been endorsed by AIDMI and was included in TEC's guidelines. Overall, such a contribution is an ongoing process as it links action and the policy level, apart of creating and distributing tools that permanently attend to the most needy.

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