Resilience, Ambiguous Governance, and the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from NGO Leaders in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ceej-2023-0003" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ceej-2023-0003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ceej-2023-0003" target="_blank" >10.2478/ceej-2023-0003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Resilience, Ambiguous Governance, and the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: Perspectives from NGO Leaders in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Drawing on interview data collected at the beginning of the refugee response in the Czech Republic between February and June of 2022, our findings suggest that NGOs face capacity and governance challenges and that these system-level barriers inhibit NGO resilience in responding effectively to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Despite these barriers, NGOs acted with flexibility and agility in delivering humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian refugees in the first few months of the crisis. Our findings also identify several resilience strategies NGOs utilise to grow their capacity to respond quickly to crises in an uncertain governance environment. We build upon the existing literature on NGO resilience in migration events by contributing new knowledge about how this plays out in the Ukrainian refugee crisis in the Czech context. The ability to collect data at the beginning of the crisis allows us to observe the dynamics of NGOs' resilience during the first significant peak of arrivals and provides an opportunity to gather novel insights about how socially relevant goals can be achieved despite an ambiguous governance environment. Our approach also allows us to understand the issue of organisational resilience in the broader context of recurrent severe crisis periods. By focusing on NGO leaders' perceptions of their organisations' resilience in responding to the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the pandemic crisis, and the more temporally distant Syrian refugee crisis, we can present a narrative of NGO capacity-building during crises within a relatively hostile and non-cooperative institutional environment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Central European Economic Journal

ISSN

2544-9001

e-ISSN

2543-6821

Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

57

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

35-49

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-86000378004