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LECTURE 9 – HUMANITARIAN AID

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Humanitarian agencies have a responsibility to bear witness to what they’re seeing
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NGOs are present in a country at the invitation of the government of that country
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In Sri Lanka, people were put in government-run camps in the North under atrocious
conditions
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This was
also a practical, daily challenge in Darfur, Sudan
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5 million people in IDP camps
and atrocities were still being committed by or on behalf of the government and NGOs were
being monitored and controlled very closely
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Negotiations have to
be based in humanitarian principles and the question of neutrality is a hot topic; there has been
considerable debate with regard to whether humanitarian aid is still neutral and the
politicisation of aid
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Why are you there? Who are you? What do you stand for?
Are you impartial and non-aligned to a party in the conflict?
In Darfur, answering these questions positively was tricky because there were democratic
impediments (DIMP)
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In Syria, the situation was hardly straightforward
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Negotiating space in Syria for
humanitarian NGOs are limited since at that time, it was unclear who was in government and
who was to be negotiated with
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Three years ago humanitarian groups
actually negotiated with ISIS, which allowed humanitarian aid groups to operate in the areas of
Syria that they had held! In Syria, it has become increasingly difficult for humanitarian NGOs
to operate and some have indeed stopped sending their people across the border
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 There  is  a  perception  that  there  has  been  a  reduction  in  humanitarian  workers  on  
the  ground
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 There  is  indeed  a  greater  risk  to  humanitarian  workers  than  there  was  10  years  ago  
however,  to  combat  this,  risk  needs  to  be  managed,  acceptance  within  communities  needs  to  
be  cultivated  and  remote  management  has  to  be  improved  (using  local  partners  or  local  staff)
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  Humanitarian  
agencies  have  to  be  clear  on  their  acceptable  levels  of  risk
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 This  was  a  tipping  factor  in  
the  organisation’s  risk  evaluation  process  and  everyone  in  the  organisation  had  to  accept  that  
level  of  risk

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