Weathering The Storm Building Resilience In The Humanitarian Sector Landesa's chris jochnick and shipra deo discuss how humanitarian organizations can build resilience to address the crises that will emerge in the next years and decades. How have development and humanitarian organizations adapted to this changing landscape? and what changes are needed to build resilience in the face of change?.
Weathering The Storm Building Resilience In The Humanitarian Sector Alongside fellow conrad n. hilton humanitarian prize recipients shining hope for communities (shofco) and partners in health, landesa’s chris jochnick and shipra deo discuss how humanitarian organizations can build resilience to address emerging crises. While typhoons have caused destruction, the resilience of the filipino people, coupled with the un's support, has led to significant progress in reducing casualties and damage. This article has explored the challenges faced by field practitioners when attempting to adopt resilience approaches in the practice of humanitarian aid, focusing on three key elements of resilience: longitudinal approaches, the reflection of local needs, and the empowerment of marginalized groups. This study draws on different challenges that nonprofits face in serving refugees and uses a communicative, process based approach to resilience to explore how nonprofits frame the situation and their actions in response.
Weathering The Storms Together Improving Us Humanitarian Efforts By This article has explored the challenges faced by field practitioners when attempting to adopt resilience approaches in the practice of humanitarian aid, focusing on three key elements of resilience: longitudinal approaches, the reflection of local needs, and the empowerment of marginalized groups. This study draws on different challenges that nonprofits face in serving refugees and uses a communicative, process based approach to resilience to explore how nonprofits frame the situation and their actions in response. This research examines the humanitarian consequences of suspending or withdrawing development aid after a ucg, which often obliges already overstretched humanitarian actors to fill gaps in basic services such as health, education, water and sanitation, putting an additional burden on the underfunded global humanitarian system. Rather than supporting national systems and institutions, some development donors had transitioned to community level work, including health and education services, infrastructure and resilience building. Drawing on case studies from mali, burkina faso, niger and afghanistan, this nrc research examines the humanitarian consequences when development aid is suspended to a country after an unconstitutional change in government (ucg). Many humanitarian practitioners will be grieving for what has been lost and collective compassion is needed as the sector passes through the familiar stages of grief before finding sufficient energy to experiment at scale with the new. but hope resides in that exploration.
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