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We may need more humanitarian bureaucracy, not less

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:06:39
Publish Date: 2021-05-18 15:46:07
Description: In the humanitarian sector, bureaucracy has been faulted for everything from ageism and the suppression of talent to a bloated and inefficient response, as examined by Hugo Slim on this blog last year. But when you examine three of the main issues currently plaguing the sector — sexual misconduct, corruption and fraud, and the politicization of resource allocation — the case for watering down humanitarian bureaucracy weakens, argue Dr. Aaron Clark-Ginsberg and Mary Kate Adgie, researchers at the nonprofit nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Instead, as they outline below, what might be needed is more bureaucracy, not less.
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