Joy Muller

CERAH - The Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action

The paper presented here is intended to share lessons learnt from the operations that the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and its National Societies undertook from 2008 to 2010 in the Horn of Africa, related to the adaptation to climate change and addressing drought. It acknowledges that to avoid further suff...

The aim of this paper is to explore how Knowledge Management (KM) and learning can be instrumental for governments' policy making and implementation, and to analyse how KM with the consideration of local culture and a bottom-up approach can increase its effectiveness. The paper is composed of three main sections: first, a literature review to discu...

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As the Knowledge and Partnership Manager of the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, I share some personal reflections on the need to increase localization in the humanitarian sector, and how the Centre can play a key role in this.

Learning and Partnering for better local humanitarian outcome Two questions were addressed in three-group discussions, following brief presentations: 1. How can we include more local views in joint analysis and data sharing, to influence the humanitarian system from various perspective and ensure diversity? 2. How do relevant sectors (including th...

This KM strategy will be implemented starting from 2020 when the online platform is made publicly available, to mid-2022, when the Humanitarian Encyclopedia reaches the end of its first project cycle. Three key outputs as listed below and a learning information gate will be produced gradually from 2020 onward. a) 129 humanitarian concepts as entrie...

This paper uses the Square Root (Atkinson, 1999) as criteria to analyse two forest conservation and management projects in Tanzania. In addition, the project’s critical success factors for international development projects, as outlined by Khang and Moe (2008) – competency, motivation, and the enabling environment – will be used to consider the lac...

This paper will focus on effective governance for public service delivery. It will provide a brief overview on the origin of public services in Britain and a number of relevant practices and theories, such as the four models of public service management (Le Grand, 2007), and the governance problem (Gamble, 2014). The reform of the Canada’s blood se...

The SDG’s achievement at the national level will depend on the level of concerted efforts led by each government. Each government is in the driving seat of the SDG implementation ‘vehicle’. No wheel can run alone. A driving force is needed. This is the key for policy coherence and effective coordination for implementation. The government will need...

The traditional strategic planning approach – the prescriptive approach – with a linear nature, has been widely used by non-profit organisations for strategic planning. This paper discusses the usefulness, strength, weakness, limitation, and relevance of this approach. Two cases are used to determine ways to increase its effectiveness. Some factors...

In order to meet the aspiration of the 2030 agenda and ensure that “no one is left behind”, efforts must focus on vulnerable people and communities. Local institutions, therefore, play an important role to bridge public authorities and local communities, and are particularly needed for people living in least developed countries (LDCs) where gaps in...

It has been observed that there is a gap – sometimes significant – between international policy-making, and the implementation of those policies at the levels where they are intended to have an effect: national, sub-national or sectorial. This paper is largely a study of one case. It will proceed from an examination of the theoretical perspectives...

In terms of global governance, international governmental organisations (IGOs), as they define transnational policies, rules and norms, and oversee their implementation and compliance, play a central role. This paper, therefore, shall focus on the governance of IGOs. With a case study, the paper intends to provide an understanding on different chal...

Written in 2015 at a time that progress has been made in achieving MDGs, though unevenly in different countries and regions and for each goal, this paper, with a focus on poverty as a key challenge to development, examines over poverty’s linkage with vulnerabilities at the community level, and looks into how a bottom-up approach for development can...