Missed opportunities: the case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses

This study is part of an ongoing effort to build the future of humanitarian assistance and recommends to smooth the transition between the different elements of the disaster cycle: resilience, preparedness, response, recovery and development. It argues that the resilience agenda has potential to address this issue, but more needs to be done to position it as a means of bridging the humanitarian development divide if it is going to tap this potential.

The overall study looks at the current and future potential of partnerships with national non-governmental organizations in humanitarian response, based on lessons from across the commissioning agencies in four major emergency settings.