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Title International NGOs and the role of network centrality in humanitarian aid operations: A case study of coordination during the 2000 Mozambique floods
Full text https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/international-ngos-and-the-role-of-network-centrality-in-humanita
Date 2003
Author(s) Moore, Spencer; Daniel, Mark; Eng, Eugenia
Abstract In February 2000, Mozambique suffered its worst flooding in almost 50 years: 699 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced. Over 49 countries and 30 international non-governmental organisations provided humanitarian assistance. Coordination of disaster assistance is critical for effective humanitarian aid operations, but limited attention has been directed toward evaluating the system-wide structure of inter-organisational coordination during humanitarian operations. Network analysis methods were used to examine the structure of inter-organisational relations among 65 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the flood operations in Mozambique. Centrality scores were used to estimate NGO-specific potential for aid coordination and tested against NGO beneficiary numbers. The average number of relief- and recovery-period beneficiaries was significantly greater for NGOs with high relative to low centrality scores (p<0.05). This report addresses the significance of these findings in the context of the Mozambican 2000 floods and the type of data required to evaluate system-wide coordination.
Subject(s) Disaster relief; Floods; Inter-organisational coordination; Mozambique; Social network analysis
Language en
Relation https://edepot.wur.nl/547219
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format text/html
Source Disasters 27 (2003) 4; ISSN: 0361-3666
Rights Wageningen University & Research
Identifier 10.1111/j.0361-3666.2003.00235.x
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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