Disasters—whether so called ‘natural’ disasters or conflict related crises—are a growing challenge. Their impacts have a profound impact on development outcomes since disasters at best mitigate against development gains, and more commonly lead to development losses, particularly for people living in poverty. Yet while disasters are often treated as exceptional events, they in fact highlight failures in our development pathways—and expose the humanitarian and development system as unfit to respond adequately to these challenges. This paper reflects on the ways of thinking and incentives that shape the behaviour that leads to the perpetuation of this siloed and reactionary system and argues that there is a need to re-frame disasters as contextual factors rather than exceptional events within the development framework. Additionally, there is a need to support leaders who collaborate, instead of working to achieve individual success for their department or institution, and to strengthen accountability to make the development and humanitarian system more effective in supporting disaster affected and at-risk communities.
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Le Cameroun, depuis 2013, apparait comme un champ privilégié des interventions humanitaires. Celles-ci, en matière d’évaluation des projets, ont longtemps été effectuées par le recours à une expertise internationale. Mais les restrictions à la mobilité internationale imposées par le COVID-19 ont favorisé l’immobilisme de cette expertise, immobilisme qui existait déjà avant la pandémie. Le COVID-19 n’a fait qu’exacerber un processus déjà amorcé par des crises sécuritaires. Si les organisations de solidarité internationale ont longtemps hésité à transférer l’exécution des évaluations des projets humanitaires aux expert.e.s locaux.ales, la crise sécuritaire et sanitaire a permis de surmonter cette réticence. En s’appuyant sur les apports du modèle de la « fenêtre d’opportunité » (Kingdon, 1984), l’article démontre comment les expert.e.s camerounais.e.s ont bénéficié de l’absence d’expertise internationale (immobilisme) pour prendre en charge les missions d’évaluation des projets humanitaires. Ce repositionnement en faveur de l’expertise locale aurait contribué à une redéfinition des asymétries Nord-Sud et des rapports de domination entre expert.e.s nationaux.ales et internationaux.ales.
{"title":"Évaluation des projets humanitaires au Cameroun : quand les consultant.e.s locaux.ales essaient de redéfinir les asymétries Nord-Sud","authors":"Jean Émile Mba","doi":"10.21153/thl2023art1953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21153/thl2023art1953","url":null,"abstract":"Le Cameroun, depuis 2013, apparait comme un champ privilégié des interventions humanitaires. Celles-ci, en matière d’évaluation des projets, ont longtemps été effectuées par le recours à une expertise internationale. Mais les restrictions à la mobilité internationale imposées par le COVID-19 ont favorisé l’immobilisme de cette expertise, immobilisme qui existait déjà avant la pandémie. Le COVID-19 n’a fait qu’exacerber un processus déjà amorcé par des crises sécuritaires. Si les organisations de solidarité internationale ont longtemps hésité à transférer l’exécution des évaluations des projets humanitaires aux expert.e.s locaux.ales, la crise sécuritaire et sanitaire a permis de surmonter cette réticence. En s’appuyant sur les apports du modèle de la « fenêtre d’opportunité » (Kingdon, 1984), l’article démontre comment les expert.e.s camerounais.e.s ont bénéficié de l’absence d’expertise internationale (immobilisme) pour prendre en charge les missions d’évaluation des projets humanitaires. Ce repositionnement en faveur de l’expertise locale aurait contribué à une redéfinition des asymétries Nord-Sud et des rapports de domination entre expert.e.s nationaux.ales et internationaux.ales.","PeriodicalId":498921,"journal":{"name":"The Humanitarian Leader","volume":"52 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140427080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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