Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 11/2009

Missing pieces? Assessing the impact of humanitarian reform in Pakistan

October 2009

Oxfam Publishing

Abstract

The displacement of more than three million people in Pakistan has triggered one of the biggest emergency responses of the year. This paper attempts to assess the extent to which this response lived up to global commitments for providing enough aid, in the right place and at the right time, in a way that is appropriate to the needs of crisis-affected people.