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Patronage or partnership : local capacity building in humanitarian crises / edited by Ian Smillie for the Humanitarianism and War Project.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency management--Developing countries.
- Emergency management.
- Humanitarian assistance--Developing countries.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- International relief--Developing countries.
- International relief.
- Crisis management--Developing countries.
- Crisis management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Much has been written about the need to build local capacities in emergency and postemergency situations. Many relief programs, however, remain characterized by externality: in their funding, accountabilities, approach to management, and dependence upon expatriate staff. Reality often flies in the face of stated policy and good intentions. In reality, strengthening local capacity is easier said than done, and there are real tradeoffs between outsiders doing something right now in the midst of an emergency, on the one hand, and building longer term local skills, on the other.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Capacity Building and the Humanitarian Enterprise; 2 Reconstructing Bosnia, Constructing Civil Society: Disjuncture and Convergence; 3 Alternative Food Aid Strategies and Local Capacity Building in Haiti; 4 Rebuilding Local Capacities in Mozambique: The National Health System and Civil Society; 5 Means without End: Humanitarian Assistance in Sri Lanka; 6 Women's Organizations in Guatemalan Refugee and Returnee Populations; 7 Sierra Leone: Peacebuilding in Purgatory; 8 From Patrons to Partners?; Abbreviations; Select Bibliography; About the Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Co-published by Kumarian Press.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610744541
- 1-56549-129-7
- 1-280-74454-5
- 1-55250-211-2
- OCLC:
- 475975834
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