Paper details

Paper authors	Marie-Claude Savard
In panel on	Hierarchies and Exclusion in Humanitarianism
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Despite their broad commitment to increasing direct funding to emergency responders in the Global South, Western donors and international humanitarian actors have made limited progress in achieving their objectives. By looking at how management control systems interact with interorganizational trust, we argue that the bureaucratic control mechanisms of state actors reinforce a trust deficit with regard to local non-state actors and responders in the Global South. The analysis of a case study from the Philippines reveals that international NGOs, as intermediary humanitarian actors, help to broker trust between donors and local responders by deploying control mechanisms that support the localization agenda.

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