Humanitarian action and development
The debate about the link between relief, rehabilitation and post disaster development cooperation, is the center of discussion in this paper. It is part of the evolution of the theoretical, political and operational approaches; in new types of emergencies and lessons learned from the last two decades. The relationship between emergency and development has led to the debate "on the need to link humanitarian aid and development cooperation so that their objectives are complementary and mutually reinforcing. The expression which gave its name to these discussions has been to Linking Emergency Aid RehabilitationDevelopment (LRRD)" (Cortes, 2006) At present, it is indisputable need to work on alternatives to reduce the frequency, intensity and impact that emergencies produce; make people, families and economies less sensitive, more resilient and better able to recover themselves. Hence the importance of going beyond of theory and operation and lead to the LRRD approach, using existing tools in the emergency phase such as Clusters and standardized methodologies suitable for both the emergency phase and the development