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Published on 1 February 2012

Follow our live participant blog from ECBinter-active Horn of Africa. The conference runs today and tomorrow with a lively and full agenda.

Here are some of the thought-provoking comments:

... Capacity and resources remain one of our greatest challenges with disaster. We need household items, education, clothes, but also we need support with accountability and feedback mechanisms.

Collaboration has developed around many common themes for example: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Emergencies, community-based preparedness and better communications with affected populations.

I do hope that we should continue to collaborate, it has been great work.

Raymond Kirungi, DRR Preparedness Officer, Ugandan Government

... Local and central governments face challenges with quanitfying the resource requirments for DRR. We are working with the office of the Prime Minister to achieve shared goals to prepare communities.

There is an opportunity to combine the expertise of NGOs and the government to find 'good enough' approaches that deal with the current crisis uncertainty in Uganda. We also need to work together to empower communities. They need approaches that are practical, implementable and simple enough to understand rather than intimidating.

Marten Myliu, Emergency Response Coordinator Oxfam (and DRR / PCVA advocate), lead for ECB Consortium, Uganda (Oxfam)

How do we ensure quality when their is such a rush to hire staff for an emegency and respond to the massive program delivery demands?

In terms of funding, we are in a situation where development funding is not flexible enough. Emergency Funding is too short term - only 3-4 months. This results in very high transaction costs. We need to face the paradox of a recurrent crisis in a rapidly evolving environment...

Astrid de Valon

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