Challenges in humanitarian response implementation

A large‐scale review of aid worker perspectives

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ID14717050
AutoresVincenzo Bollettino (0000-0001-7819-2012, Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States, autor correspondente), Rachel Isely (Humanitarian Programs Director at Concern Worldwide US United States), Godfred Nyarko (Research Program Manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States), Chloe Rudnicki (Research Assistant at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States), Karima Rehmani (0000-0001-7245-9898, Program Manager | Humanitarian Academy at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States), Hannah Stoddard (Program Manager | Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States), Patrick Vinck (0000-0002-2137-1578, Research Director at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University United States)
Ano2024
Volume48
Fascículo2
Páginase12607-e12607
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDisasters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/disa.12607
PMID37504493
OpenAlexW4385331395
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas16

Aid workers offer important perspectives for understanding better the most pervasive challenges that arise when implementing emergency response programming in humanitarian settings. This large sample study provides a global review of these perspectives, derived from 4,679 applications to the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership, in which aid workers were asked to respond to the following question: ‘What do you consider to be the biggest challenges in the implementation of emergency response programming in today's humanitarian settings?’. Through a qualitative coding process, the research team identified 14 major challenges that were prevalent across the applicants’ responses and cross‐tabulated these with their demographics. Coordination (30 per cent) and operating environment (29.5 per cent) were the most frequently reported. The study found a significant association between challenges identified and certain demographic variables. The results supplement a body of literature that is largely composed of small‐scale, context‐specific studies in which disaggre‐gation of data by demographics is not possible

Demographics · Emergency response · Geography · Humanitarian aid · Medical emergency · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Demography · Disaster Management and Resilience · Disaster Response and Management · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development