Trust in Cash Assistance Programming: Addressing Mega Trend Changes through Disaster Management and Impact Assessment

Abstract

Impact assessment faces challenges in dealing with the ‘magnitude, the speed and the complexity of current global problems and new societal dilemmas (needing) new facilitating strategic choices to achieve broader sustainability goals and objectives’ (Partidario Citation2020). The past is not necessarily a guide to future risk. Retief et al. (Citation2016) identified global megatrends of demographics, urbanization, technological innovation, power shifts, resource scarcity, and climate change that demand new approaches. Responding to an escalating scale and complexity of disasters within this context necessitates rapid decision making – but the speed can compromise the quality of the response and its effectiveness. Show more