HUMANITARIAN REFORM AND CLUSTER APPROACH: NON-MARKET ORIENTED ACTIONS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO MANAGE TIMOR-LESTE’S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS

Authors

  • João Antônio Souza e Silva International Organization for Migration
  • Hélio Arthur Irigaray UNIGRANRIO

Keywords:

Humanitarian Reform, Cluster Approach, Resources allocation.

Abstract

There are multiple issues which are relevant to both market and non-market means of resource allocation. When it comes to the former, the lack of precision in general market situations as well as the call for precise relationships between the key concepts: public goods, externalities, accountability and exclusion are highlighted. Indeed, the absence of conditions to assure a Pareto efficient competitive equilibrium situation usually results in resorting to non-market channels of resource allocation, such as government  expenditures, taxes, and subsidies, in this case, externalities ought to be studied in terms of criteria, specifically, benefit cost and second-best analyses. For instance, previous international responses to humanitarian emergencies suffered from a lack of accountability, predictability and long-standing gaps in service, especially in the camp management and water and sanitation sectors.  In this paper we analyze the case study of two UN agencies and how they used the Humanitarian Reform and the Cluster Approach to allocate resources during and in the aftermath of 2006 crisis in Timor Leste. We carried out a two-year long field research, in Dili, reviewing documents, observing and running questionnaires in order to pinpoint the gaps between the theory and the practice of the non-market actions undertaken by the UN agencies.

Author Biographies

João Antônio Souza e Silva, International Organization for Migration

Bacharel em Administração de Empresas pela PUC-Rio e há dois anos trabalha na IOM – International Organization for Migration, como gerente do projeto de distribuição de alimentos para os refugiados do Timor Leste.

Hélio Arthur Irigaray, UNIGRANRIO

Professor Adjunto do Programa de Mestrado da UNIGRANRIO. Professor do quadro complementar da PUC-Rio e da FGV. Doutor em Administração de Empresas pela FGV-EAESP. Mestre em Administração de Empresas pela PUC-Rio e Bacharel em Economia pela University of Northern Iowa, EUA.

Published

2014-02-27

How to Cite

Souza e Silva, J. A., & Irigaray, H. A. (2014). HUMANITARIAN REFORM AND CLUSTER APPROACH: NON-MARKET ORIENTED ACTIONS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO MANAGE TIMOR-LESTE’S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. Perspectivas Contemporâneas - Contemporary Perspectives, 8(2). Retrieved from https://revista2.grupointegrado.br/revista/index.php/perspectivascontemporaneas/article/view/461

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