A ripple in development? - Channel Research

Figure 7
Contextual
assessment
By carrying out informed contextual analysis, donors, UN agencies and
NGOs can overcome the project based nature of interventions. And by
concentrating on coordination in situ all actors are better able to understand
the limitations and needs of local capacity, as well as deploy multifaceted
disaster risk reduction measures. By giving clear planning priorities,
national governments can provide a better framework for economic
interventions and social mobilisation interventions.
In some cases it may also be necessary to create early recovery programmes
with long term horizons, in effect a third track of response,
situated alongside relief and development, ensuring that key linkages
are maintained by the establishment of key capacities to handle handovers.
This would use a different timeline for planning than a year by
year approach, while remaining very open to contingencies. This form
of assistance would require not so much a palliative approach (restoring
conditions to the pre-existing level) but an adaptive one (adjusting to
changed circumstances) with a focus on outlying regions, and on vulnerability
and the capacity of a multiple range of local actors.
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