Since the humanitarian response to the 1994 Rwanda genocide there has been a growing body of
literature on quality and accountability in humanitarian action. One of the most recent trends
has been a focus on humanitarian cooperation between the governments of disaster affected
countries and other humanitarian actors. The research presented in this book builds on this
trend by comparing two governmental recovery agencies namely the Interim Haiti Recovery
Commission (IHRC) and the Aceh Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR).Through a
review of the literature on policy transfer the creation of an integrated conceptual
analytical framework for policy transfer and the application of Lijpharts comparative method
the research attempts to identify both whether or not policy transfer occurred between the two
contexts as well as the possible causes for the difference in both agencies ability to build
back better. The outcomes of the research are then used to suggest possible areas of future
research and related hypotheses.
