Whenever there is natural or man made calamity, there are large number of refugees. A problem accompanying is determining needs of these people and effectively managing these needs. Now , there is usually a lot of corruption and mismanagement involved in the whole process. This results in wastage of donor money and further suffering for the affected people.
Main problems in managing a refugee crisis are :
1). Collecting and sharing statistics on refugees.
2). Collecting and sharing information on aid being distributed to the refugees by various agencies.
3). Determining the needs of the refugees in real time, and sharing this information with the relief organizations to help in planning and effective execution.
4). Sharing information about steps taken by relief agencies to avoid duplication of effort and thus to use available resources in the optimal manner.
5). Sharing all the information with public and governments to ensure effective response.
6). All the agencies should use common platform for collecting statistics and sharing high level information.
