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Decolonising humanitarianism or humanitarian aid? [PDF]
PLOS Glob Public Health, 2022 Aloudat T, Khan T.
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Saving and Re-building Lives: Determinants of Short-term and Long-term Disaster Relief [PDF]
Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, 2014 We analyse both theoretically and empirically, the factors that influence the amount of humanitarian aid received by countries which are struck by natural disasters, particularly distinguishing between immediate disaster relief and long term ...
Geethanjali SELVARETNAM +2 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background Conflicts exacerbate dynamics of power and inequalities through violence normalization, which acts as a facilitator for conflict-related sexual violence. Literature addressing its negative outcomes on survivors is scant.
Elena Rubini +5 more
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Vulnerability of migrant women during disasters: a scoping review of the literature
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background Disasters have an unequal impact on the population because of differences in conditions of vulnerability, exposure, and capacity. Migrants and women are among the groups that are at greater risk for and disproportionately affected by disasters.
Monica Trentin +6 more
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Humanitarian aid as an integral part of the European Union's external action: the challenge of reconciling coherence and independence [PDF]
, 2014 The article focuses on the European Union's (EU) humanitarian aid policy. It addresses the challenge for the EU to deliver independent humanitarian aid while simultaneously seeking to establish more coherence between its external policies.
Benadusi M. +11 more
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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.
Leanne Ussher +3 more
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The European Union's 'Comprehensive Approach' in Chad: securitisation and/or compartmentalisation? [PDF]
, 2015 The European Union (EU) aims for a comprehensive approach to security in developing countries. As a result, attempts have been made to enhance the nexus between the EU's security policy and other policy areas, particularly development, humanitarian ...
Del Biondo, Karen, Orbie, Jan
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Big data and humanitarian supply networks: Can Big Data give voice to the voiceless? [PDF]
, 2013 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright © 2013 IEEE.Billions of US dollars are spent each year in emergency aid to save lives and alleviate the suffering of those affected by ...
Lycett, M, Monaghan, A
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Students' Involvement in International Humanitarian Aid: Learning from Student Responses to the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2014 Aid delivery has been critiqued for its failure to be locality-specific and culturally relevant for recipients. Humanitarian responses to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami involved volunteers, professionals, and social work and other students.
Dominelli, Lena, Vickers, Tom
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to identify the possible needs for undergraduate disaster medicine education in Sweden and to make informed recommendations for the implementation of disaster medicine content in medical and nursing schools in ...
Yohan Robinson +3 more
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