For years, humanitarian agencies have been seen as fast and flexible. But in several recent big crises, agencies struggled to keep up with their environment as it changed around them. Why is this? And how can humanitarian agencies make themselves ready and able to adapt?
In this introductory audio companion, Tim Harcourt-Powell (Communications Officer) speaks to Alice Obrecht (Senior Research Fellow) about ALNAP’s research on flexibility in humanitarian action. They discuss what drew ALNAP to this topic, why a more flexible humanitarian response is needed, and offer an overview of what to expect in the rest of the episodes.
ALNAP’s report ‘Shifting Mindsets: Creating a more flexible humanitarian response’ looks at the problem of flexibility in humanitarian action. The report is accompanied by a nine-part audio companion which explores some of the key problems in more depth by interviewing people working to understand these problems and develop ways to fix them. You can listen to the rest of the audio companions and read the report at: www.alnap.org/shiftingmindsets
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Ebola Outbreak Spreads In West Africa | NBC News YouTube user: NBC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEi6YDpwDfM
Is Ebola virus a global emergency? BBC News YouTube user: BBC News www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pd4H3u9c_Q
Ebola virus YouTube user: AFP news agency www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8xJ4V77Ufs
Pneumatic Drill, by mhtaylor67 (CC BY 3.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
