Coping with Crisis: Coping With Aid Capacity Building, Coping Mechanisms and Dependency, Linking Relief and Development
This paper considers means of effectively strengthening UN Agencies’ capacities to assist affected communities to cope with crisis. Examining relationships between coping mechanisms and capacity building, with reference to links between relief and development, it addresses the following issues:
• Inventory of efforts to identify, utilize, strengthen and improve local capacities
• Potential contribution of inherent local capacities
• Practices and frameworks undermining local initiatives and traditional coping mechanisms
• Good practices and innovative approaches to improve relief and development linkages
Written under the auspices of the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, the paper was prepared for a UN interagency committee.
