This output was prepared under the overall strategic guidance of Suzanne Steensen, Head of the MOPAN Secretariat. The study was conducted under the supervision of Patrick Saez, Senior Policy Advisor and Head of Unit for Insights and authored by Cecilia Corsini, Junior Policy Analyst, who led the data collection and analysis, with the support of Paolo Zurlo, Intern.
We extend our sincere thanks to the members of the MOPAN Advisory Group for Multilateral Effectiveness in Humanitarian Crises. In the group, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom championed the work on behalf of MOPAN members and were represented by Marie-Louise Koch Wegter, Director for the Department for Humanitarian Affairs and Civil Society in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Denmark), supported by Thomas Thomsen, Chief Adviser; Xhulia Tepshi, Desk Officer, Federal Foreign Office (Germany); Sofia Karlsson, Deputy Director and Head of the Humanitarian Division, Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Sweden); Dominik Stillhart, Deputy Director General and Head of the Humanitarian Aid and Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Switzerland, supported by Mélanie Buesch, Programme Manager, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; and Laurence West, Humanitarian Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (United Kingdom).
Acting in their personal capacity, Abdihakim Ainte, Director of Food Security and Climate Change in the Office of the Prime Minister (Somalia); Jeremy Konyndyk, President, Refugees International; Puji Pujiono, President of the Indonesian Social Workers Association and National Advisor of the National Agency for Disaster Management (Indonesia); Elizabeth Riley, Executive Director, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency; Sofie Garde Thomle, Head, Inter-Agency Standing Committee Secretariat, also participated in the group.
We gratefully acknowledge the valuable contributions of Lewis Sida and Lynn Hastings, who, as independent experts, provided external peer review for this brief.
Finally, MOPAN is grateful to all Steering Committee representatives and member countries for their financial contributions, which made this brief possible.