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DIY Disaster Relief - local level can be faster, cheaper, more effective
by Tony Quinlan on Nov 22, 2010 8:47:53 PM
One of the things that struck me from the work we did the other year in Pakistan was that current aid and disaster relief often works top-down, with governments and NGOs putting in large programmes and amounts of funding at the national or, at best, regional level. Where control (or t …
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