«Rethinking Capacity and...

To make humanitarian action as local as possible and as international as necessary, the Overseas Development Institute launched a two-year research project on capacity and complementarity in 2017. In this paper, Veronique Barbelet explores the project’s two central questions: - How can capacity be better understood and applied to support more complementary and collaborative humanitarian responses; and - what are the opportunities for, and obstacles to, harnessing the capacity of, and forging more effective complementarity among, local, national, regional and international parties responding to humanitarian crises?