From the Syrian crisis to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, there is no doubt that the humanitarian community is overstretched.
And we’re just talking about crises that are currently in our radar. It doesn’t yet include potential emergencies arising from natural calamities or humanitarian disasters in countries vulnerable to conflict, such as the Central African Republic or Somalia.
The humanitarian community’s good-intentioned but often ill-prepared response to these crises have repeatedly generated criticism and calls from other stakeholders for a remodeling of the system. There’s just too much bureaucracy causing delays in response, exacerbated by insufficient capacity at the international and national level.