Informative overview of the key issues to be addressed in early recovery approaches from the Humanitarian Policy Group, based on research with staff from UN agencies, donors and NGOs in headquarters and field offices in Darfur, Gaza, Colombia and Uganda.
As they argue, early recovery, stabilisation, peace-building and state-building all offer different frameworks (p.13) that overlap and are often contradictory. They suggest that a more pragmatic approach should be taken to realistically achieve change in the highly political circumstances present in transitional periods.