Learning from exposure: How decades of disaster and armed conflict have shaped Colombian NGOS

Author(s)
Luz Saavedra
Publication language
English
Pages
56pp
Date published
01 May 2016
Publisher
ALNAP
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
National & regional actors, National, NGOs
Countries
Colombia
Organisations
ALNAP

Colombia’s decades of disasters and armed conflict have shaped the perceptions, experiences and practices of the wide and diverse number of national and local organisations involved in humanitarian response.

This paper presents the results of research examining these perceptions, attitudes and experiences. It looks at the idea of learning from exposure as a way to understand the experiences and ways of working of Colombian organisations, in their own terms.