"Local communities, local organisations know more about their situation, their needs than 'experts'. Can funds be better used to consolidate local organisations rather wasting time and resources on hiring international experts?" -Guillaume
Chantry, Development Workshop France, Hue, Vietnam
In Bandah Aceh, 6 months after the Tsunami, the landscape was still rubble.
As many International Organisations did data collection, planning and recruiting of experts from the world, some local Organisations (like UpLink) werealready rebuilding resistant and well adapted houses with families, in a collective and participatory process, from a simple office in the suburbs.
Indeed, the situation has changed in most of the disaster areas. There is better warning and information of population - often associated with Action Plans. Yet, the same waste of money/energy still happens when the big disaster comes (like in Philippines after Haiyan). Local communities, local organisations who know more about their situation, their needs than 'experts'. If all these funds were used to consolidate local organisations in prevention (and reconstruction…) and not for developed country 'experts', great progress will be made for the protection of vulnerable people!
In Bandah Aceh, 6 months after the Tsunami, the landscape was still rubble.
As many International Organisations did data collection, planning and recruiting of experts from the world, some local Organisations (like UpLink) werealready rebuilding resistant and well adapted houses with families, in a collective and participatory process, from a simple office in the suburbs.
Indeed, the situation has changed in most of the disaster areas. There is better warning and information of population - often associated with Action Plans. Yet, the same waste of money/energy still happens when the big disaster comes (like in Philippines after Haiyan). Local communities, local organisations who know more about their situation, their needs than 'experts'. If all these funds were used to consolidate local organisations in prevention (and reconstruction…) and not for developed country 'experts', great progress will be made for the protection of vulnerable people!
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