Local partners and relationships --- Thanks Ivy, and I certainly recognise your point. To Gerard, I'd say that it should be possible for a National Society, functioning in a crisis with the support of IFRC and ICRC, to handle these partnerships even when faced by an overwhelming crisis. The Sri Lanka Red Cross more or less managed this after the Tsunamis there, and so did the Myanmar RC after Cyclone Nargis. It depends a bit on the nature of the disaster.

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