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Paper authors	Alistair Cook
In panel on	Negotiating Humanitarian Access in Violent Conflict
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Across Southeast Asia policy debates on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief have focused on several challenges from the use of technology to negotiating access difficulties to populations of concern. With an increasingly crowded humanitarian space, alongside with multiple challenges facing humanitarian workers and beneficiaries during periods of crisis less attention is given to the transition to longer term recovery efforts. However, there is an emerging trend that governments and civil society in Southeast Asia are moving towards more holistic and comprehensive approaches focused on multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral responses. These comprehensive approaches focus on the government and private sector cooperating in the development of special economic zones, construction of infrastructure, agriculture and livestock breeding, information and public relations, job creation and vocational trainings, healthcare, fundraising and tourism sectors. More importantly, the humanitarian and development sectors are exploring the joint deployment of their staff, which suggests a revised approach with significant implications for humanitarian access in Southeast Asia. This paper seeks to assess the current changing dynamics and the development of new mechanisms in Southeast Asia.

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