Peace Research Institute Oslo, and Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, Oslo, Norway.
Disasters. 2013 Jul;37 Suppl 1:S36-50. doi: 10.1111/disa.12011.
The literature on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises commonly focuses on how inter-and non-governmental organisations can produce better knowledge and how this can be translated into improved programming. Yet, there is little recorded experience of, or concern about, how the beneficiaries of humanitarian relief can produce and use knowledge of their predicament. This paper is based on a case study of how the Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas, an internally displaced women's organisation in northern Colombia, employs proactively research-generated data to advance its own agenda in its interactions with donor bodies and the government. The paper finds that beneficiaries of humanitarian aid can, and do, use participatory research to advance their own ends in the legal and political spaces created around humanitarian crisis. However, their agency is limited by poverty, violence, and local balances of power. The paper concludes that beneficiaries' priorities in the production of data about humanitarian crises warrant further study.
关于人道主义危机循证行动的文献通常集中于探讨如何使政府间组织和非政府组织能够产生更好的知识，以及如何将这些知识转化为改善方案规划。然而，对于人道主义救援的受益者如何能够产生和利用其困境的知识，以及对此的关注却记录甚少。本文以哥伦比亚北部流离失所妇女组织 Liga de Mujeres Desplazadas 为例，说明了该组织如何积极利用研究产生的数据，在与捐助机构和政府的互动中推进其自身议程。本文发现，人道主义援助的受益者可以并且确实会利用参与式研究，在围绕人道主义危机而建立的法律和政治空间中推进自己的目标。然而，他们的能动性受到贫困、暴力和当地权力平衡的限制。本文最后认为，有必要进一步研究人道主义危机数据产生过程中受益者的优先事项。
