19th ALNAP Meeting (June 2006)
In terms of both analysis and activities, food security is not well coordinated with national systems and capacities. While there is a recognition that famine can be ‘poverty driven’ and recurrent, we do not appear to have real solutions to recurrent crises set within the context of chronic vulnerabilities. In what ways can the humanitarian community live up to its commitments to build local capacity and to improve ‘downward accountability’?
