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Enrique Steiger

Dependency of Aid in Protracted Crisis: How can humanitarians devise a health-care system that does not create dependency on foreign assistance ?

  • Feb 6 2013 - 2:02pm   |  
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  In a protracted crisis, how can humanitarians devise a health-care system that does not create dependency on foreign assistance? A precarious health care system in a poverty stricken country is one of the first victims in a humanitarian crisis caused by natural disaster or an armed conflict. The disruption of health care services caused by interrupted supply lines, destruction of premises, and the flight of medical personnel... More >>

Lars Peter Nissen

Questions & Answers with Lars Peter Nissen

  • Feb 5 2013 - 9:51am   |  
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  Many of those who participated in our recent Humanitarian Assistance Webcast, On the Basis of Humanitarian Need? The Confounding of Operational Decision Making, submitted questions that we were unable to address during the event due to time constraints. However, these questions were far too important and thought-provoking to leave unanswered. In this light, we asked one of the event's panelists, Lars Peter Nissen, to address... More >>

Rob Grace

Weekly News Roundup: Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding (February 1, 2013)

  • Feb 1 2013 - 10:58am   |  
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[As part of its research and policy project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding (MRF), the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University aggregates news detailing recent developments in this domain. For more information about this project, visit the project’s webpage. For additional research materials, visit the HPCR Digital Library of Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding,... More >>

Anneli Eriksson

Assessing the Need for Assessment

  • Jan 30 2013 - 2:55pm   |  
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  A central aim of international humanitarian assistance is to fulfil the needs of a population in time of crisis/disasters. In order to achieve this, it’s obvious that planning of humanitarian assistance requires an analysis of needs. However, how this is done, by whom and in what phase of a disaster is up for debate. Several tools have been developed and the improvement of methodology, as well as coordination of needs... More >>