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June 21, 2026World Development PerspectivesOpen Access

The reality of community engagement in humanitarian engineering projects: Contextualizing the problem definition phase through the lens of community organizing

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JMJess MingeeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAWAnn‐Perry WitmerUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Implication

This qualitative analysis contrasts humanitarian engineering with contextual engineering, highlighting community engagement challenges and solutions.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how community objectives should shape engineering practices in humanitarian projects.
  • Cross-disciplinary investigation of community organizing projects
  • Case study analysis of community engagement processes
  • Comparison between common humanitarian engineering approaches and contextual engineering
  • Community engagement is essential for project success, requiring active participation from stakeholders.
  • Current humanitarian engineering approaches often treat community engagement as secondary to technical processes.
  • There is a lack of a standardized framework for integrating qualitative insights into technical decision-making.

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Mingee et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a37815a24f042ddf4c5b47bhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2026.100802
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