Many communities live in limbo between disaster and development, not quite fitting under the mandates of emergency NGOs nor those of development NGOs, and lacking the local capacity to immediately meet their own needs. This leaves a dangerous breach in health care provision and access to safe drinking water: the post-crisis gap.
By filling the post-crisis gap, our supported programs both provide the integrated health care needed in the short run and strengthen the local health capacities necessary to independently provide health services in the long run. We explicitly choose to support programs implemented during this vulnerable period. Acting as a bridge between emergency NGOs and locally-led health care and development, our aim is to support health workers and authorities while transitioning care into local hands.
Humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made, leave unpredictable legacies that last long after the media spotlight moves on. Emergency NGOs provide essential humanitarian relief in response to the immediate and often dire needs of people affected by, for example, a hurricane or an armed conflict. But their emergency mandate does not last forever nor should it: Many emergency NGOs leave an area when the situation is no longer classified as an “emergency.” But how does a government or a community that has recently emerged from a disaster or is mired in a protracted conflict suddenly begin to provide health care or safe drinking water when it already faces serious developmental challenges?
By filling the post-crisis gap, our supported programs both provide the integrated health care needed in the short run and ease the transition to long term, sustainable local health care.
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