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dc.contributor.authorFrennesson, Lina
dc.contributor.authorKembro, Joakim
dc.contributor.authorde Vries, Harwin
dc.contributor.authorJahre, Marianne
dc.contributor.authorVan Wassenhove, Luk
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-08T13:20:19Z
dc.date.available2023-02-08T13:20:19Z
dc.date.created2022-12-07T10:45:55Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2022, 83 .en_US
dc.identifier.issn2212-4209
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3049328
dc.description.abstractThe humanitarian sector has formulated a collective strategic intent to localize. This involves delegating responsibilities and transferring capacities and resources to national and local actors. However, progress is slower than expected. Strategy execution is hard, and translating a general strategic intent to the actual way humanitarian organizations operate is not obvious. To suggest remedies for the slow progress, this paper investigates drivers and barriers for international humanitarian organizations (IHOs) to localize their logistics preparedness capacities. It is essential to understand IHOs' perspectives as they are global and powerful actors in the humanitarian sector and by far represent the largest recipients of donor funds. We focus on logistics since it constitutes key activities of strong local contextual character, such as procurement, warehousing, and transport. By interviewing practitioners from a representative set of large IHOs, and connecting the empirical insights with relevant theory, we unravel reasons that hinder localization. These include IHOs' strategic choices due to context-sensitive benefits of localization, mandated expectations on IHOs, the lack of internal drivers for IHOs to localize, and resistance to localize due to IHOs’ desire and motives for continued engagement in humanitarian aid. Based on these insights, actionable propositions are developed to help accelerate progress toward localization.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSciendeDirecten_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectHumanitarian organizationsen_US
dc.subjectLogistics preparednessen_US
dc.subjectCapacitiesen_US
dc.subjectLocalizationen_US
dc.subjectBarriersen_US
dc.subjectDriversen_US
dc.title“International humanitarian organizations’ perspectives on localization efforts”en_US
dc.title.alternative“International humanitarian organizations’ perspectives on localization efforts”en_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.source.pagenumber0en_US
dc.source.volume83en_US
dc.source.journalInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reductionen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103410
dc.identifier.cristin2089924
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1


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