Legal Issues from the International Response to the 2007 Floods in Bolivia

The purpose of this report is to examine the legal and regulatory issues related to the international response to the floods. After briefly setting out the existing domestic legal framework for disaster response in Bolivia, it will discuss some of the practical problems
that international disaster response providers encountered in carrying out their operations as well as rules and systems that helped to alleviate potential barriers.

The aim is not to criticize or assign blame for any of the problems identified, but rather to make a
positive contribution to efforts to improve systems for cooperation in the future, as well as identifying best practices that should be continued and perhaps emulated in other countries