Humanitarian action in Iraq: Putting the pieces together

from ODI via ReliefWeb

International humanitarian action in Iraq since 2003 has been inadequate to the nature and scale of the task. It has been piecemeal and largely conducted undercover, hindered by insecurity, a lack of coordinated funding, limited operational capacity and patchy information. As humanitarian agencies look to scale up interventions in 2008, most of the earlier challenges to providing assistance in Iraq – political, institutional and operational – persist.

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