Humanitarian Planning and Localised Temporalities

The Haitian Case

Bibliographic Data

ID21793106
AuthorsJan Verlin (0000-0003-4384-1793, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
IssueS7
Pages68-79
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-5880 • E-ISSN: 1758-5899
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1758-5899.12978
OpenAlexW4206533429
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited21

This article shows, based on the Haitian crises after 2010, that international organisations (IOs) as central actors of humanitarian governance in complex crises situations rely on sequenced time frames to manage the diversification and massification of relief actors. At the same time, crisis professionals struggle to correlate their lived temporalities with this preconstructed time model when the localised crisis shifts from an event to a permanent temporality. The article is, therefore, guided by the following question: How is time strategically used by IOs in humanitarian governance and what are the effects of conflicting localised temporalities? The article argues first that different types of temporalities were associated with different groups of aid actors after the 2010 earthquake. The prolongated humanitarian crisis resulted in the repetitive adaption of UN appeal and funding instruments. Second, I show that the UN used planning instruments based on the disaster management cycle. Based on its cyclical temporality, UN actors combined it with humanitarian project management tools to govern aid projects by formalising the negotiation between the long‐term aid programmes and the short‐term duration of projects. I finally show the synthesis of both forms of temporal aid governance to control the contradictions between localised and funding temporalities

Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Disaster Management and Resilience · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security

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