We would like to acknowledge the assistance received from Nescha Teckle, Sanny Jegillos, Rajesh Sharma and Pablo Torrealba of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team, Prof. Krasae Chanawongse and Roopa Rakshit of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, and Sanjana Hattotuwa from Infoshare, for the valuable input they have provided for this publication.