Exclusion of Local Resources and Alienation of Funds in Conventional Disaster Relief and Response

This diagram explains why and how a significant part of funding, donations and budget for relief assistance remains outside the local relief areas and why recovery is slow and plagued with dependencies, inefficiencies and weaknesses.

For the sake of simplicity, some of the statements are exaggerated or generalized. Not all disaster response initiatives are as radically inefficient as shown in the diagram, although it does depict common flaws of conventional disaster relief in general.

As suggested in the Chile TechCamp workshop, it also explains similar issues in charity, non-profit and assistance interventions in general, not limited to disaster. I have removed most of the disaster specific terms and items starting the process of making it a more generic model that describes inefficiencies both in disaster and in general assistance interventions.

Our first attempt to solve this exclusion and the inefficiencies related to it is presented in "Entrepreneurial Response to Disaster: A social business model".