Missed Again: Making space for partnership in the Typhoon Haiyan response

Humanitarian partnerships between national and international organisations are a long-established means of responding to humanitarian needs. As long ago as 1994 the Non Governemental Organisation/Red Cross Code of Conduct emphasised the importance of working collaboratively with national organisations, and in 2007 the Principles of Partnership outlined best practice in humanitarian partnership working. With its focus on national actors, this study focuses on the vexed question of humanitarian partnership and seeks to provide evidence, in real time, of how far partnership working happened in the response to Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) in the Philippines, and its effectiveness.