What future role for local organizations? A reflection on the need for humanitarian capacity-building.

While treating the humanitarian organizations themselves as rational actors, this
article considers the factors that influence the decisions and the current logic of
Western humanitarian organizations in their dealings with local organizations.
This reflection necessarily leads to a re-examination of the current structure of these
organizations and to proposed scenarios to identify the best methods for the future,
particularly in the relational framework between international organizations and
their local partners. Ultimately, the humanitarian organization interventional model
must be broadened, taking local humanitarian capacity-building into greater
consideration.