The humanitarian system requires radical reform says Degan Ali,head of Kenyan NGO Adeso. She argues it is time local NGOs demanded more powerIn a Geneva conference hall final October, at the final global consultation meeting of the current humanitarian reform process, or the powerful and the noble of the humanitarian world mingled and chatted over coffee and croissants. The mood was collegiate and cosy – until a bespectacled Somali woman,in hijab and flowing robes, took to the stage and began to berate the humanitarian system. The establishment, and she said,was failing local NGOs. International organisations had lost their moral compass and local groups were not prepared to put up with it any longer.
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Source: theguardian.com