Local Humanitarian Leadership and Religious Literacy: Engaging with Religion, Faith, and Faith Actors

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Author(s)
Gingerich, Tara R.
Moore, Diane L.
Brodrick, Robert
Beriont, Carleigh
Publication date
2017-03-31
Subject
Humanitarian
Keywords
Community engagement
Emergency response
Humanitarian practice
Women's rights
Local humanitarian leadership
Local faith actors
Humanitarian principles
Religious literacy

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam
Harvard Divinity School
Document type
Research report
Description

Local humanitarian leadership is built upon the premise that humanitarian action should be led by local humanitarian actors whenever possible, yet this research finds that secular humanitarian INGOs do not engage systematically with local faith actors in their local leadership work. Based primarily on interviews with humanitarian INGO staff, this research also found that neither secular nor faith-inspired international humanitarian organizations have a sufficient level of religious literacy to enable them to understand the religious dimensions of the contexts in which they work and to effectively navigate their engagement with local faith actors.
Pages
44
DOI
10.21201/2017.9422
ISBN
978-0-85598-942-2
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/620236
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/local-humanitarian-leadership-and-religious-literacy-engaging-with-religion-fai-620236
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