HOT Summit 2019:  Mapping for resilience – Area-based approaches in humanitarian contexts
Channel: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Date: 2019-09-20

Speaker: Sebastian Langer, IMPACT Initiatives

In contexts of crisis, local actors are often the first and primary providers of support for vulnerable populations. However, aid action in contexts of crisis is largely planned and implemented by international actors (UN and INGOs). Developed around national-level coordination structures, aid action often fails to understand and engage with sub-national and local actors. This lack of engagement has repeatedly led to, at best, sub-optimal targeting and duplication of aid efforts and, at worst, an undermining of the role and capacity of local actors.   Under the term “area-based approach”, IMPACT Initiatives aims to leverage synergies between local actors and exogenous aid stakeholders; and the use of settlements as the territorial unit for the planning, coordination and provision of aid and basic services.

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