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Members of the RRN will be familiar with the terrible drama being played out in Bosnia-Herzegovina through the extensive international media coverage. Though such coverage often focuses on the...
One of the distinctive features of the recent aid programmes in eastern Ethiopia is the almost complete absence of any political, institutional and programmatic history. This is an unforgivable...
Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) seeks to integrate humanitarian principles and the protection of civilians within its mandate and operations. This paper details the ways in which these laws and...
Some analysts consider the merging of humanitarian, political and military roles and goals inevitable, practical and desirable. Others believe that in attempting to bring political, military and...
The absence of professional knowledge regarding coordination, and the occasional shortage of technical and methodological expertise, added to the usual resistance to coordination, made it a...
The aim of this paper is to examine the usefulness of formal, quantitative data collection techniques for relief operations, using a survey from northern Iraq as a case study. 'Formal'...
The emergency responses to Mitch were strong in some areas, and weak in others. The British evaluation assessed that improvements were required in housing reconstruction, rehabilitation of the...
The first part of this paper describes the key concepts that make up food-security theory, and relates them to a livelihoods approach. These concepts are availability and access to food (...
The high cost of armed conflicts to the affected countries and rich countries in terms of the rapid growth in expenditure on humanitarian aid, coupled with a growing recognition of the inherent...
The idea of distributing cash relief in famines is controversial. Although it is increasingly recognised that food aid serves not purely as a nutritional intervention, but also as a transfer of an...