Hundreds of Japanese and overseas organizations teamed up to respond to Japan’s 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and their work together demonstrates the tremendous potential of deeper cooperation between Western and Japanese NGOs involved in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance. Drawing on two years of interviews with scores of NGO leaders involved in the 3/11 response, a JCIE report assesses how well these NGO’s international partnerships actually worked and what needs to
Hundreds of Japanese and overseas organizations teamed up to respond to Japan’s 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown, and their work together demonstrates the tremendous potential of deeper cooperation between Western and Japanese NGOs involved in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance. Drawing on two years of interviews with scores of NGO leaders involved in the 3/11 response, a JCIE report assesses how well these NGO’s international partnerships actually worked and what needs to