What Are the Opportunities COVID-19 Creates for the Humanitarian Sector? Blog

Author(s)
Cornish, L.
Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
14 Apr 2020
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Capacity development, Local capacity, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, humanitarian action, Leadership and Decisionmaking, NGOs
Organisations
Devex
Link
https://www.devex.com/news/what-are-the-opportunities-covid-19-creates-for-the-humanitarian-sector-96960

For the humanitarian sector, COVID-19 provides a range of challenges. Bringing in international support after a disaster could be impossible due to travel restrictions or create the risk of staff infecting local communities with the new coronavirus. And supply chains may be heavily affected — including the ability to procure and deliver medical supplies needed in response to a disaster.

But at the same time, a new paper from the Humanitarian Advisory Group highlights the opportunities that are presented, as localization and empowerment of local leadership are expected to be sped up due to COVID-19. This blog discusses those opportunities.

Authors: 
Cornish, L.