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Humanitarian organisations, including the Red Cross, agree that there can be no effective humanitarian response to a nuclear detonation.
Would anyone with even a scrap of humanity call hundreds of dead, not to mention thousands of wounded, maimed and traumatised, "effective" humanitarian planning?
This calls for massive and effective humanitarian aid to reach those in urgent need of medical supplies and items such as baby food.
So, if the collection and analysis of sex and age disaggregated data is so vital to effective humanitarian response, why is it so routinely neglected?
"We are all frustrated with what is the immense personal suffering that takes place when countries don't create the conditions for effective humanitarian assistance and support," he said.
"What I hope to see is the kind of immediate decisive international reaction to the crisis in the Congo, which takes millions of lives, that we just saw in the Indian Ocean, where, thanks to an immediate outpouring of donors and an immediate response by an effective humanitarian community, we saved tens of thousands of lives".
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It adds: "Broadening engagement will likely require the formal humanitarian system to cede control to unfamiliar actors and, at the same time, find politically and culturally acceptable means of sharing and promoting hard-won lessons on principled, effective and efficient humanitarian financing".
But no matter how effective the humanitarian response, it is no substitute for a long-term political resolution.
There is growing evidence that building community resilience to shocks is more cost effective than humanitarian response.
In Libya, however, it was the League's willingness to act that made effective international humanitarian intervention possible.
The low-key -- but massively effective -- humanitarian would have none of it, insisting: "You will find me among the people.
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