The United Nations is also warning that the international community can not forget the devastated region.

• Kemal Dervis, administrator of the United Nations Development Program: “We must be in there for the long haul. Our advocacy role on behalf of the most vulnerable has to continue. We have to of course document what is happening and that is why the financial tracking is so important. And we have to work of course with the local communities and with their governments so that the effort goes on, so that the effort continues… and that the international community also sees that things can work so that the resources put in actually have a return, that tangible things are achieved. Not immediately, not in the short run. These disasters take a long time to overcome. Even developed countries, Japan, Kobe earthquake, took apparently 7 years to fully reconstruct the city. So it takes time and we have to be in there for the long haul.”