Disaster Response Management Cycle: Benchmarks and Concepts, 2005

01/04/2005

The current crisis in Asia brings back into the news both dramatic images and well-known debates on aid, its management and impacts. For committed observers of these humanitarian practices, once again, the humanitarian system that has become a spectacle is a victim of its success. The polemics are returning, as they so often do. But at the same time, the extraordinary outpouring of generosity and the motivation of the teams in the field must not lead to the cynicism of "always the same circus". But what about the actual management in the short, medium and long term of this type of situation?