Locally-led humanitarian aid: Peter Walker at TEDxLakeGeneva
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2014
- Humanitarian Strategist
Peter Walker
With over 25 years of field experience in international humanitarian relief, Peter Walker now leads a team of 30 academics and practitioners at the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University. His group conducts research to better understand the factors that lead to, or exacerbate humanitarian crises, and how to effectively respond to them. Walker is actively involved at all levels: driving policy and international standards whilst also training aid workers for crisis response during his annual disaster simulation workshop at Tufts.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
I completely agree. Locally-led responses are the best way to go, even though the preliminary work needed to get them in place can be daunting.
Currently, I am studying a Master of Emergency and Disaster Management at CDU. I choose to do an assignment on Peter Walker and stumbled across this presentation. That was excellent. I feel a little inspired, thank you.
More power on this greatinitiative, valuing, respect and trust local community in leading their initiative
Localization of aid should start also from localization of consultancy and locally-led decision in at-least 50% of global humanitarian and development aid, in favor of small community based organizations (sCBOs).