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TITLE: Relief and Development: The Struggle for Synergy (Occasional
Paper 33)
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| This study explores the relationships between emergency aid and development assistance. Reviewing the still-prevailing linear concept of a continuum between the two, it urges instead a more dynamic understanding. It highlights three challenges that frustrate realizing the synergies between relief and development: the problem of timing interventions appropriately, the specificities of internationally available funding, and, most importantly, the lack of understanding of the connections between relief and development. These challenges are illuminated by analysis of reconstruction efforts in Haiti and Bosnia and by selected other initiatives. | |
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The study does not propose a new concept to replace the continuum, pointing instead to fundamental institutional problems that require more assertive leadership. It urges the demolition of longstanding conceptual and institutional barriers. A letter from an NGO executive commenting on the study is found in Section 8, Selected Reviews of Project Publications.
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humanitarian principles, reconstruction, development, relief-to-development continuum, funding, synergy, coordination, cultures, mandates, quick impact projects, civil society, professionalism; Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Sudan, Kenya; UN, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNTAC, USAID, ECHO, OECD, CIDA, NGOs, the Red Cross Movement.
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watson institute - -Tufts University | Feinstein International Famine Center - |
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