Who is most vulnerable to the effects of the tsunami?
Vulnerability needs to be understood in context, as it varies over time and place, however, those who are most vulnerable in the recovery stage include: • Particular social groups including: women, the elderly, children and orphans, ethnic and religious minorities, single-headed households; • Particular livelihoods: fishers and others involved in fisheries (traders, processors), people in the informal tourism economy, those previously engaged in economically marginal livelihoods; • Socially excluded groups: illegal settlers and others whos rights and claims to resources are not officially recognised; • Economically marginalised groups: those with inadequate access to economic (credit, welfare) and social capital (networks, information, relationships).
