Abstract
Objective:Access to affected people pays an important role in United Nation Organization for Coordination and Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The aim of this article is to identify the main obstacles of humanitarian access and the humanitarian organization responses to these obstacles and finally suggest some recommendations and strategies.Methods:In this narrative study the researchers searched in different databases. This study focused on the data from five countries in the following areas: access challenges and constraints to affected population and response strategies selected for operations in the affected countries by humanitarian organizations.Results:Three main issues were studied: security threats, bureaucratic restrictions and indirect constraint, which each of them divided to three subcategories. Finally, nine related subcategories emerged from this analysis.Conclusion:Most of these constraints relate to political issues. Changes in policy structures, negotiations and advocacy can be recommended to solve most of the problems in access issues.
Highlights
Humanitarian principles play an important role in crisis and disasters
Negotiations and advocacy can be recommended to solve most of the problems in access issues
Different response policies have been designed against the obligatory obstacles on providing humanitarian aid to a needy population by active humanitarian organizations which were mentioned in the following table
Summary
Humanitarian principles play an important role in crisis and disasters. The main core of humanitarian principles is neutrality, impartiality and independence (UN, 2013). For care giving we need the acceptance approaches and providing a basis on which warring parties may accept humanitarian action in situations of crisis and disasters. As the Wikipedia defines the access, "accessibility" is the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. The concept often focuses on people with disabilities or special needs (Wikipedia, 2013). In another dictionary access is defined as following: "the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use" (Dictionary Reference, 2013). The access of affected population to care is an important issue, but it is not the focus of this study
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