This study project involved an assessment of the social development-related needs of people in tsunami-affected areas in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The aims were to: (1) enable socially-marginalized groups (people with disabilities, the elderly, youth, various ethnic, religious or linguistic minority groups, and especially disadvantaged men and women such as widows, the very poor, etc. ) to express their priorities and needs in the process of post-disaster reconstruction; and (2) to share the findings and policy recommendations with the relevant stakeholders, especially Governments, in order to adequately address the priorities and concerns raised by theses specific groups of survivors in the rebuilding process as well as in social services delivery, social policy and laws in areas such as property/land rights/security of tenure.