The latest issue of Forced Migration Review (FMR28)
Enhancing Southern capacity: rhetoric and reality
is now online at http://www.fmreview.org/capacitybuilding.htm
Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building –
or enhancing – Southern capacity. To our surprise, however, our call for papers
for this issue did not produce the flood of articles we expected. Perhaps this
tells us something about lack of fit between rhetoric and reality? Do
international agencies still define ‘capacity building’ in a way which implies
that Southern recipients have no capacity to start with? Is the capacity-
building industry a North-driven, patronising and uni-directional transfer of
knowledge? Is there genuine commitment to helping nationally-based
organisations respond to future crises? The first 15 articles in this issue
address these and other questions.
FMR 28 – which will be published in English, Arabic, Spanish and French – also
includes 23 articles on a wide range of other subjects.
FMR would appreciate your help to maximise impact.
This issue will be distributed to our usual mailing list shortly, accompanied
by our special issue on Iraq (‘Iraq’s displacement crisis: the search for
solutions’, online at http://www.fmreview.org/iraq.htm). If you usually receive
FMR, you do not need to request either of these issues (unless you require
multiple copies).
If you do not usually receive FMR but would like to receive a hard copy for
your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners and policy-
and decision-makers, please contact the Editors at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk We will
need your full postal address and indication of how many copies in which
language you require.
Please feel free to reproduce any articles in either issue, crediting ‘Forced
Migration Review’ and citing the URL of the particular issue.
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