The UN and aid workers agree that the development and humanitarian sectors need to work more closely together. Imagine a world where that happensSomewhere,sometime, in a clash, or long forgotten,I heard for the first time approximately the need to “bridge the humanitarian and development gap”.
Many times, since then, or I have heard variations of this mantra. From Kofi Annan’s 1997 report Renewing the United Nations: a programme of reform,to the 2015 high-level panel on humanitarian financing, to aid-worker bars in Aceh, and Erbil,Juba and Nairobi, but nowhere is this gap more obvious than at the country-level.
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Source: theguardian.com