Humanitarian Response
The United Nations Humanitarian Response in Syria
... local humanitarian response continues to limit the extent to which the local NGO’s are able to operate and deliver aid, especially in opposition-held ...
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... of humanitarian response, how that movement has both succeeded and failed at times over the past five years, the challenges and contradictions that have been faced during global crises from the Arab Spring ...
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A humanitarian response to the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak
... many humanitarian actors also have experience in public health, including response to disease outbreaks in the context of conflict, natural disaster, and complex ...in humanitarian emergen- cies, ...
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Understanding disasters: managing and accommodating different worldviews in humanitarian response
... decade, humanitarian events affected on average 120 million people ...complex humanitarian emergencies that require international response each year are ...the humanitarian event interacts ...
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Perspectives on the Contribution of Higher Education to Education as a Humanitarian Response
... In other words, university and other teachers need to connect the global with the local, by adopting the necessary first step by getting to know where their students, who may just be community members, ‘are at’. This ...
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Faith and impartiality in humanitarian response: Lessons from Lebanese evangelical churches providing food aid
... Furthermore, though most church leaders may have embraced the concept of impartiality, seeking to use affinity ties to identify the most vulnerable and stating that aid was unconditional, they were not willing to ...
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Use of technology in humanitarian response to disasters. The cases of Haitian and Nepalese earthquakes
... of humanitarian aid has changed significantly over the last years, following extensive damages caused by natural ...effective response to unforeseeable disasters have become one of the primary global ...
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Annual report on the European Union's humanitarian aid and civil protection policies and their implementation in 2011. Report from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament. COM (2012) 489 final, 6 September 2012
... disaster response, the Commission is also striving to enhance disaster prevention and preparedness, both within the EU and beyond, especially in regions that are prone to natural ...the humanitarian ...
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Diabetes in an emergency context: the Malian case study
... With regards to information, medical products, service delivery, human resources and financing Spiegel et al. [29] provide guidance in terms of what should be done in humanitarian crises. This includes ...
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The Lebanese–Syrian crisis: impact of influx of Syrian refugees to an already weak state
... accountable humanitarian aid should be carried out ensuring its ...the humanitarian response setbacks is crucial in order to respond better in future crisis in Lebanon and ...
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Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid - (ECHO) annual report 2005. Report from the Commission. COM (2006) 441 final, 4 August 2006
... crisis response in third countries” adopted in response to this Action Plan (20 April 2005) 9 ...EU humanitarian response to disasters outside the EU, such as (1) increasing the number of ...
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Clinical Decision Making of Nurses Regarding Elder Abuse
... examining humanitarian response evaluations allows for a structured way of looking at whether her three dimensions account for the factors of distribution and dissemination, format, timing, and ...
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Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid - ECHO operational strategy 2008. Commission staff working document. SEC (2007) 1664 final, 5 December 2007
... and humanitarian situation in Iraq is extremely complex and violence is increasingly ...sectarian. Humanitarian needs are continuously rising: according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red ...
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The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency
... pandemic response, but for whose meaningful use humanitarian organizations tend to lack the institutional and technical capacity, and national au- thorities even more so (Harvard Humanitarian ...
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Implementation and utilisation of community-based mortality surveillance: a case study from Chad
... In the study sites, CDRs generally decreased between 2004 and 2008 and were below recognised emergency thresholds. There were two instances in Kerfi where death rates were seriously elevated; increased mortality ...
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Preparation of medical personnel for an early response humanitarian mission – lessons learned from the Israeli defense forces field hospital in the Philippines
... its humanitarian aid efforts and emergency medicine response to natural disas- ters as do other military forces, and nowadays as in the past, these are still considered core military missions ...[12]. ...
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Reflections from the Lebanese field: “First, heal thyself”
... Relaxation Response and Resilience Program (SMART- 3RP) and other mind-body programs could fill in this gap as a public health ...the humanitarian aid ...SMART, humanitarian organizations must invest ...
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Coincident polio and Ebola crises expose similar fault lines in the current global health regime
... emergency response units, (ii) the creation of a global health-emergency workforce, (iii) setting up an emergency contingency fund, and (iv) advancing the re- search and development of medical products for ...
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Health in the service of state-building in fragile and conflict affected contexts: an additional challenge in the medical-humanitarian environment
... contexts, humanitarian interventions may be also viewed as antagonists of system development and their benefit considered ‘out of place’ once the country is declared in a reconstruction and development ...
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The new WHO decision-making framework on vaccine use in acute humanitarian emergencies: MSF experience in Minkaman, South Sudan
... After decades of civil war, South Sudan is still undergoing a political-military crisis with severe humanitarian conse- quences. South Sudan has some of the poorest health indi- cators in the world and is prone to ...
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