​Humanitarian responses often involve large numbers of national and international actors who frequently work in the same geographical areas and towards the same broad goals. However, coordination and collaboration among them are often limited at best. Failure to work together can lead to gaps in coverage and to duplications and inefficiencies in any given emergency response.

This is the discussion starter ALNAP prepared for the background paper to their 30th Annual Meeting 'Working together in the field for effective humanitarian response'.

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