I think there are two main reasons, from my experience and my understanding.
One reason is we're never prepared for these emergencies. That boggles my mind a little because we've been going through them so many times. When they happen we need to get the money out. We need to get the money quickly and we need to get it to somebody who can actually do the work and implement it quickly. When we have this emergency and we don't have this list and we don't know who's doing what in the country, locally speaking, who's independent and who's not, we tend to fall back to these large organizations.
I think the second one is just risk averseness. We're not ready to take on this risk and it's a huge project to be done. Again, it's so fruitful if we can do it, it's just that we don't want to take on this responsibility and often we move from one emergency to the other, from one country to the other, from one issue to the other, so that we don't really spend time. We don't invest. It's that issue of investing in better understanding and in being less reactionary and more calm and collected in knowing that there's an emergency and we can do this, like we do in Canada. We know what the organizations are and then we work with them but, unfortunately, we don't prepare for that.