Virtually
every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building – or
enhancing – Southern capacity. To our surprise, however,
our call for papers for this issue did not produce the flood
of articles we expected. Perhaps this tells us something about
lack of fit between rhetoric and reality? Do international agencies
still define ‘capacity building’ in a way which implies
that Southern recipients have no capacity to start with? Is the
capacity-building industry a North-driven, patronising and uni-directional
transfer of knowledge? Is there genuine commitment to helping
nationally-based organisations respond to future crises? The
first 15 articles in this issue address these and other questions.
This issue – which
will be published in English, Arabic, Spanish and French – also
includes 23 articles on a wide range of other subjects.
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