The Many Faces of Humanitarian Aid in Nepal
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Kernal?guen, Aur?lie
Abstract
Dhading District, Chitwan District… Dozens of men and women are bustling in the remote mountainous regions or on the high plateaus of Nepal about bringing their support of food, drinkable water, education, and skill training to the Nepalese communities. Humanitarian workers come from all over the world, including France and Taiwan. They are actively taking part into the global race alleviation poverty and to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDG-8) set by the United Nations, in one of the poorest regions of the world.
In the bustling world of Non-Governmental Organizations, associations of small size, big size and INGOs are working side by side in Nepal. First and foremost, it is people who made the choice to devote themselves for a certain period of time to humanitarian work. But above the personal experience framework, their actions fall within the wider scope of international aid reality and its inherent calling into question…
One of the recurrent key points in the field of humanitarian aid is to question what is a ‘help of quality’ and an ‘appropriate help’? One way recently explored by the academic field brings up the notion of ‘intercultural dialogue’, the ability to dialogue, exchange and establish a partnership with the local communities.
This in-depth report focuses on analyzing the work of French and Taiwanese humanitarian workers in small and big size organizations in Nepal. Nowadays, many big NGOs are undergoing a process of professionalization and tend to uniform their aid overseas. This study attempts to show that, in contrast, small size NGOs, despite the limitations of financial resources might be more efficient in building a successful intercultural dialogue influencing the quality of help they provide, thanks to their work in close contact to the local communities.
This study follows the humanitarian work of 25 French and Taiwanese in Nepal. The analysis of the in-depth interviews tends to show that small organizations can provide good quality aid thanks to the intercultural dialogue, the quality of which might be crucial in the near future of international aid.
Subjects
Humanitarian aid
(I)NGO
Intercultural dialogue
Millennium Development Goals
Nepal
Type
thesis
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