Disaster management and multilateral humanitarian aid: Parallelism vs. Combined forces

Abstract

This chapter provides a "practitioner’s perspective" on an aspect of the changing dynamics among the actors engaged in humanitarian response, namely disaster management actors and multilateral humanitarian aid actors. How these two groups relate to each other is symptomatic of the challenges in the international humanitarian system today, and harbinger of the changes that will take place in the next few years. A fuller understanding will be important for developing and training future humanitarian actors.