Full Background
Choice Ufuoma Okoro is an analyst and public writer focused on the political economy of crisis and humanitarian governance. With over fifteen years of experience working across multiple crisis and policy contexts, she brings deep insight into how power, funding, and accountability operate within international response systems.
Her work examines how emergencies become prolonged and institutionalized, evolving into self-sustaining systems shaped by incentives, gatekeeping, and the normalization of failure. Drawing on field experience and policy engagement, she challenges conventional humanitarian narratives and advances the case for greater transparency, external accountability, and ethical reform in crisis response. Choice’s analysis bridges field realities and policy discourse, helping donors, academics, and practitioners better understand why well-intentioned interventions often struggle to produce durable change.
A crisis is not only an emergency. It is a system.
I write and analyze how humanitarian crises become prolonged and institutionalized, and how power, incentives, and accountability shape outcomes in international response systems.
My work explores why well-intentioned interventions often struggle to produce durable change, and how the governance of crisis can drift from urgency toward permanence. Drawing on years of experience across crisis and policy contexts, I seek to bridge field realities and policy discourse with clarity and care.
This space brings together my core thinking, public essays, and writing on the political economy of crisis and humanitarian governance. It is intended for those who work within these systems, study them, or seek to reform them — and for anyone interested in how emergencies are managed once they cease to be temporary.