POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION AND NATIONAL RESILIENCE: HUMANITARIAN POLICY AS A FACTOR IN INSTITUTIONAL REFORM OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM
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https://doi.org/10.62664/cpa.2025.02.16Keywords:
post-war recovery, national resilience, humanitarian policy, institutional renewal, social cohesion, public administration.Abstract
Post-war recovery is increasingly moving beyond purely material reconstruction and emerging as a comprehensive transformation aimed at restoring and building the capacity of public authorities to ensure security, provide basic services continuously, and strengthen social cohesion in conditions of prolonged uncertainty, recurring threats, and resource constraints. With this approach, the decisive result is not only the volume of reconstructed objects, but above all the stability of the management system — the ability of institutions to act consistently, coherently and fairly, maintaining public trust and the manageability of public processes.
The purpose of this article is to provide a scientific justification for the mechanisms through which humanitarian policy can act as a factor in the institutional renewal of the public administration system, as well as to develop proposals for their practical implementation in the context of post-war transformation.
The methodological basis of the study is a conceptual generalisation and interdisciplinary synthesis of scientific works devoted to the reform of public administration in post-conflict conditions, the manageability of humanitarian interaction, the restoration of social cohesion, crisis management and the institutional adaptation of public authorities. Analytical tools are proposed — a matrix of «humanitarian policy → institutional renewal» and a management cycle of humanitarian policy, which make it possible to build evidence-based reform design, aligning humanitarian priorities with levers of institutional capacity (regulatory framework, programme and budget planning, human resources, information systems, coordination, accountability).
The practical significance of the work lies in the formation of packages of management decisions aimed at transitioning from fragmented interventions to consistent policies: from integrated assessment of needs and risks to the introduction of service standards and delivery routes, the creation of coordinated registries and data to ensure targeting, the establishment of inter-agency and inter-level coordination, the strengthening of accountability and quality control, and the institutionalisation of «system learning» through regular evaluation of results and adjustment of management procedures.
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