Publication

This paper examines the effects of flooding and a cyclone that hit Mozambique in early 2007, which stretched the government's ability to respond. The author argues that in this case, in-country humanitarian aid organizations stepped in to fill the void. Their combined work made for a "reasonably good" response. More specifically, the author cautions that generic response models, much promoted in the literature, must retain a degree of flexibility to allow for successful country-specific disaster responses.