This report from the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery documents the status of the recovery effort at 12 months. Given the scale of the disaster, the recovery process is still in its early phase, but much has been achieved in this first year. Each affected country faces different challences, and thus the picture of progress is an uneven one; yet common to all is the reality that it will take many years for individual households, and the wider economies on which they depend, to recover from the most destructive disaster caused by a natural hazard in recorded history. This report identifies emerging lessons relating to international coordination, national institutions, recovery planning and disaster risk reduction. Finally, the report identifies key operational priorities for 2006 that should guide the overall recovery effort to ensure continued momentum and achievement of critical objectives.