What new challenges does the changing humanitarian landscape pose for humanitarian effectiveness?
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State, Local authorities, UN, RC, NGOs, and Military, in advance, should know each other's capacity, and how they work. Need to create integrated contingency plans among them.
- Deputy Director General, international organization, Japan
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Decreasing community and institutional vulnerabilities; Complex conflict dynamics arising from competition over scarce resources; Serious gap in presence of frontline facilitators from non-government sector or CSOs to help bridge DRRM understanding; Corporate sector carrying on with its own mode of humanitarianism; etc.
- Independent Humanitarian Practitioner, Philippines
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Lack of support from the various governments where there are conflicts, especially Burma, killings of Muslims, and no humanitarian aid assistance.
- Radiologist, UN agency, Sudan
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1. Using technology in a way that helps responses, taking into account the risks that can be posed by such information flows.
2. Non-traditional donors engaging in responses with differing priorities and interpretations of humanitarian principles
3. Fragile and conflict affected states being able to have a focus on preparedness
- Director, humanitarian organization, Australia
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More players = more to coordinate = efficiency difficult
- Corporate Communications Officer, international organization, Thailand
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More actors should act in a well-coordinated manner, comprehensive and complementary roles in addressing complex issues for medium- and long-term periods.
- CEO, INGO, Japan
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How to ensure cohesive response in urban context with larger number of actors coming on ad hoc background. Impact of social media to coordinated response/ benefits and non-benefits.
- Regional Disaster Management Coordinator, Trinidad and Tobago
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Balancing new emerging models such as 'business model' with humanitarian principles
- Regional Child Protection Coordinator, INGO, Kenya
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A challenge remains: how can all actors remain relevant.
- Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy Advisor, INGO, Australia
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