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Complementary Currencies for Humanitarian Aid [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2021 The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory toward direct currency injection, something new has happened: namely the empowerment of communities to create their own local currencies, a tool known as Complementary Currency systems.
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Grand challenges in humanitarian aid [PDF]
Nature, 2018 Fund and study these priorities for natural and social sciences to meet a gaping need, urge Abdallah S. Daar, Trillium Chang, Angela Salomon and Peter A. Singer. Fund and study these priorities for natural and social sciences to meet a gaping need.
Abdallah S. Daar +3 more
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Leveraging Domain Knowledge for Inclusive and Bias-aware Humanitarian Response Entry Classification [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Accurate and rapid situation analysis during humanitarian crises is critical to delivering humanitarian aid efficiently and is fundamental to humanitarian imperatives and the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) principle. This data analysis can highly benefit from language processing systems, e.g., by classifying the text data according to a humanitarian ...
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Multi-AI Complex Systems in Humanitarian Response [PDF]
Proceedings of the 3rd KDD Workshop on Data-driven Humanitarian
Mapping, 2022, Washington, DC USA, 2022 AI is being increasingly used to aid response efforts to humanitarian emergencies at multiple levels of decision-making. Such AI systems are generally understood to be stand-alone tools for decision support, with ethical assessments, guidelines and frameworks applied to them through this lens.
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Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan [PDF]
CEMOTI, 2000 Michel Leezenberg, «Humanitarian Aid in Iraqi Kurdistan», pp 31-48. Humanitarian aid has been an important economic and political factor in Iraqi Kurdistan, but it has had unforeseeable, and at times even paradoxical, effects ; to some extent, it has exacerbated existing negative trends and tendencies.
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Janus: Safe Biometric Deduplication for Humanitarian Aid Distribution [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Humanitarian organizations provide aid to people in need. To use their limited budget efficiently, their distribution processes must ensure that legitimate recipients cannot receive more aid than they are entitled to. Thus, it is essential that recipients can register at most once per aid program.
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Assessing the Causal Impact of Humanitarian Aid on Food Security [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In the face of climate change-induced droughts, vulnerable regions encounter severe threats to food security, demanding urgent humanitarian assistance. This paper introduces a causal inference framework for the Horn of Africa, aiming to assess the impact of cash-based interventions on food crises.
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Big Data Analytics in Humanitarian and Disaster Operations: A Systematic Review [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 By the outset of this review, 168 million people needed humanitarian aid, and the number grew to 235 million by the end of the completion of this review. There is no time to lose, definitely no data to lose. Humanitarian relief is crucial not just to contend with a pandemic once a century but also to provide help during civil conflicts, ever-increasing
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Not Yet Another Digital ID: Privacy-preserving Humanitarian Aid Distribution [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Humanitarian aid-distribution programs help bring physical goods to people in need. Traditional paper-based solutions to support aid distribution do not scale to large populations and are hard to secure. Existing digital solutions solve these issues, at the cost of collecting large amount of personal information.
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Humanitarian aid starts at home [PDF]
BMJ, 2006 Humanitarian aid has become more politicised.1 Humanitarian workers can reverse this trend only if governments or decision makers are held accountable for their decisions. ASSIST is a primary care service delivering primary care services solely …
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