What metrics show international aid effectiveness after a crisis?

[AuroraWG]

I’m trying to understand how we can even measure the success of international aid after a major crisis. I see the huge dollar figures pledged, but then I read reports from the ground about warehouses full of undistributed supplies and local businesses undermined by free goods. It makes me wonder if the current framework for this assistance is fundamentally flawed.

[Alexander_P]

I have sat in meetings where big numbers got tossed around and then watched warehouses fill up while people on the ground waited for something usable.

[EmmaD]

We moved to track deliveries and asked teams to log when a pallet actually got to a clinic and who sold the goods locally and it revealed a roadblock in last mile.

[Stella.T]

Free goods sometimes kill small shops because price points collapse and people lose trust in local traders.

[Scarlett_C]

We tried a basic dashboard with two metrics duration and usage but the data was messy and the story kept changing.

[AdamDM]

Sometimes I wonder if the real problem is not the aid but how we run the program could that be the wrong question?

[AdamWR]

I drifted into talking to farmers about cash flow and then back to goods and yeah the path was messy but we kept at it and kept changing the plan.