New Infrastructure for Humanitarian Giving
Oct 12, 2026 · 31 min · 13 segments
**References & Resources:** - The Aid Cloud, a platform that provides connector agencies with a complete framework for supporting local organizations, combining…
Oct 12, 2026 · 31 min · 13 segments
**References & Resources:** - The Aid Cloud, a platform that provides connector agencies with a complete framework for supporting local organizations, combining…
Jose, you and En wrote in a recent issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review about the Aid Cloud, and you specifically framed your argument around the idea that there's an infrastructure failure in the humanitarian sector's attempts to support local organizations.
When you talk about infrastructure or frameworks, what you're really talking about are a set of rules, right? And, uh, for example, a project, how th- how funding moves, what are the rules and the rails around that, right? And so when we talk about there's an infrastructure failure, the infrastructure exists in the bilateral frameworks.
But when you look towards the private side, right, and, and the capital that's meant to replace some of the bilateral aid that's kind of decreased, we're also noticing is that there is no real standard infrastructure for anyone, right? And so the idea is to say, "Look, things have to move according to some rails," right? They have to move according to some rules and systems.
And so creating an infrastructure is essentially setting up those rules, um, so that money is transparent, people know how it moves, and so it actually facilitates more getting down there.
And again, when we say there's a failure, um, it's more an absence, particularly in the private corporate side.
Yeah, just to add a bit more reflecting to the Myanmar context, what I learned from my experience is that, like Jose said, we have bilateral funding donor, we have INGO, we have international, uh, actors who are responding in every eme- emergency in Myanmar, but they always reach to the grounds, you know, a little bit later, maybe, uh, within one week.
But because they have their own process to decide whether or not they will respond to or, you know, which funding they will use, it takes some time.
So normally, who comes first is the private business, wealth ratios, you know, who fit the gap, at least in the immediate, you know, to cover the immediate survival needs of the affected community.
Jose, you and En wrote in a recent issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review about the Aid Cloud, and you specifically framed your argument around the idea that there's an infrastructure failure in the humanitarian sector's attempts to support local organizations.
When you talk about infrastructure or frameworks, what you're really talking about are a set of rules, right? And, uh, for example, a project, how th- how funding moves, what are the rules and the rails around that, right? And so when we talk about there's an infrastructure failure, the infrastructure exists in the bilateral frameworks.
But when you look towards the private side, right, and, and the capital that's meant to replace some of the bilateral aid that's kind of decreased, we're also noticing is that there is no real standard infrastructure for anyone, right? And so the idea is to say, "Look, things have to move according to some rails," right? They have to move according to some rules and systems.
And so creating an infrastructure is essentially setting up those rules, um, so that money is transparent, people know how it moves, and so it actually facilitates more getting down there.
And again, when we say there's a failure, um, it's more an absence, particularly in the private corporate side.
Yeah, just to add a bit more reflecting to the Myanmar context, what I learned from my experience is that, like Jose said, we have bilateral funding donor, we have INGO, we have international, uh, actors who are responding in every eme- emergency in Myanmar, but they always reach to the grounds, you know, a little bit later, maybe, uh, within one week.
But because they have their own process to decide whether or not they will respond to or, you know, which funding they will use, it takes some time.
So normally, who comes first is the private business, wealth ratios, you know, who fit the gap, at least in the immediate, you know, to cover the immediate survival needs of the affected community.
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