Coordinating post-disaster humanitarian response: lessons from the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, India

Type Working Paper - Development in Practice
Title Coordinating post-disaster humanitarian response: lessons from the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, India
Author(s)
Volume 24
Issue 8
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Page numbers 975-988
URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09614524.2014.964187#.VdnzL_ntmko
Abstract
This article is based on a field study carried out in Indian-administered Kashmir after the 2005 earthquake. In this analysis of how non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage and coordinate with one another and with other disaster response agencies during post-disaster relief and rehabilitation operations, it can be concluded that NGDO coordination was ineffective. The research points out that, even though there is coordination among the international and national NGDOs, local NGDOs are seldom engaged in the overall coordination processes. The paper advocates developing coordination among the humanitarian agencies as a pre-disaster initiative for a more effective collaborative humanitarian disaster response.

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