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2. Shifting Mindsets: Creating a more flexible humanitarian response
- Author:
- Alice Obrecht
- Publication Date:
- 09-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- As humanitarian needs and situations change, and as our understanding of complex problems evolves, humanitarian agencies must be able to adapt. Yet in recent years, international humanitarian agencies have struggled with flexibility when it comes to adapting to context, changing the type and quantity of support at the right time, or responding quickly and appropriately to unexpected crises or challenges. To date, the flexibility of modern humanitarian agencies, and the capacities needed for response level flexibility, has not been explored in depth for modern crises. This is the end-of-project report for a two-year workstream that sought to address this gap by undertaking exploratory research on the support factors and barriers to flexibility and adaptation in contemporary humanitarian action.
- Topic:
- International Organization, Crisis Management, Humanitarian Response, and Flexibility
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
3. Shifting Mindsets | Section 4: Culture and people
- Author:
- Alice Obrecht
- Publication Date:
- 09-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- This standalone section of the ALNAP Study Shifting Mindsets: Creating a more flexible humanitarian response focuses on culture and people for greater flexibility. This is one of the three pillars that flexibility relies upon according to this research and also one of the starting points to make humanitarian responses more flexible. It covers flexible approaches in organisational culture and staff, as well as anticipatory and adaptive strategies to this extent.
- Topic:
- International Organization, Culture, Performance Evaluation, Humanitarian Response, Flexibility, and Organizational Learning
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
4. Shifting Mindsets | Section 3: Systems for greater flexibility
- Author:
- Alice Obrecht
- Publication Date:
- 09-2019
- Content Type:
- Special Report
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- This standalone section of the ALNAP study 'Shifting mindsets: creating a more flexible humanitarian response' focuses on organisational systems to support flexibility. This is one of the three pillars that flexibility relies upon according to this research and also one of the starting points to make humanitarian responses more flexible. It covers flexible approaches in: logistics, supply chain and procurement systems; programme design and programme cycle management; and monitoring of these systems.
- Topic:
- Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chains, Monitoring, Humanitarian Response, and Flexibility
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
5. Dynamic gridlock: Adaptive humanitarian action in the DRC
- Author:
- Alice Obrecht
- Publication Date:
- 02-2018
- Content Type:
- Case Study
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- Humanitarian actors are increasingly responding to more complex situations, such as protracted conflict and high-risk cyclical natural disasters. They face continually changing, uncertain and long term crises, which is a stark contrast to the shorter term rapid-onset situations - such as flooding or earthquakes - that the humanitarian system was built around. How can they adapt the response they deliver in these changing environments? As part of an ALNAP research project addressing this increasingly important issue of adaptive and flexible humanitarian action, this country study focuses on how agencies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are responding to a complex and protracted crisis. The country has been in a perpetual state of sporadic conflict for the last twenty years, with huge numbers of people displaced and a chronic absence of adequate infrastructure or government response to address its people’s needs. Humanitarians are working in an environment that is continually changing, as many small-to-mid-level, complicated crises arise in different parts of this vast country on a weekly basis. Through interviews with international and local agencies, ALNAP Senior Research Fellow Alice Obrecht maps how programmes and donors have tried to adapt in a setting of complex protracted conflict.
- Topic:
- Conflict, Adaptation, Humanitarian Response, and Flexibility
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Democratic Republic of the Congo