Do we have the right capacity to listen and shape humanitarian and recovery programmes accordingly? Highly experienced human resources should be placed at the level where organisations interphase with communities at-risk of disaster. - Sarbjit Singh Sahota, Emergency Specialist Disaster Risk Reduction Section, UNICEF India
Participation was a big deficit in various phases and domains of
response: There were isolated examples in Tsunami response, where
participation of affected people was used effectively to shape right kind of
programmes.
Disaster affected men, women and children have been consistently communicating that, “Don’t take any decision on/for me without me”. Their right to
participation. Do we have the right capacity to listen and shape
humanitarian and recovery programmes accordingly? Human resources? Much has
been talked out it since many decades. It is probably time that the
alternative ways of working define the much needed alternative humanitarian
system. To make implementation of humanitarian standards a reality, good quality,
highly experienced human resources should be placed at the level where
organizations interphase with communities at-risk of disaster. Right now the
trends are almost the opposite. Similarly within humanitarian coordination
mechanisms the senior people should be at sub national level (something like
district in India).
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| Don't take any decisions on / for me without me! |
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