In his speech during the launch of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition report, on the 14th of july 2006 in Geneva, Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, advocated for the application of Code of Conducts and Quality Standards such as the "excellent Sphere Standards" by Humanitarian organisations.

"13 years ago an equally big report was made of the Rwanda effort. It was again a system wide evaluation effort. Since then we have had many new mechanisms, we have many new initiatives, we have many new tools, and still many of the same mistakes were repeated. Why is that standards such as the excellent Sphere Standards, which describe how shelter should be, how we should operate as agencies and so on. Why was it that this was not systematically applied? Why was it that the Good Humanitarian Donorship Principles were not fully applied? Why was it that the Code of Conduct was not fully applied regarding involvement of the affected population? " Jan Egeland.