Humanitarian Coordinator system

The failure of the collaborative approach led to a decision by the ERC to commission a comprehensive review of the response system. The Humanitarian Response Review of August 2005 found major shortcomings in humanitarian preparedness and response, finding that as a sector, protection requires special and urgent attention. Its recommendations focused on three key areas humanitarian leadership, funding, and coordination. These became the three initial pillars of the Humanitarian Reform process, later (p. 304) joined by partnership, linked to the development of the Global Humanitarian Platform Principles of Partnership. 

Two important stakeholders opted to remain outside the cluster system. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in a policy paper in April 2007 challenged what it termed politicar strategies of coordination and integration of humanitarian actors in a global framework in which humanitarian action was structurally subordinated to political strategies (MSF 2007). 

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