New approach? --- I believe that immediate service delivery of humanitarian assistance is not contradictory to capacity building of local actors on the longer term. All the more as humanitarian organisations are increasingly relying on local actors in their action. Capacity-building activities should first be included in strategies of humanitarian organisations and be funded by adequate mechanisms. This might require to convince donors about the benefits of capacity-building as a component of humanitarian work.

Source author: Chloe Sarthou chloe.sarthou@hotmail.fr