Relief programs are most effective when they are integrated, locally owned, and demand driven. But Jeremy Konyndyk argues in this report for the Center for Global Development that humanitarian action in the 21st century remains constrained by a 20th-century aid model: siloed, supply driven, and centered on the individual mandates and sectors of international aid agencies. He identifies five issues affecting global humanitarian governance and calls for a high level forum where the sector’s funders, partners, and (ideally) recipients, set policy, review priorities and reforms; and sustain political engagement on global humanitarian effectiveness.
https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/five-takeaways-future-humanitarian-reform.pdf

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