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Taylor & Francis Ltd Aid to Africa
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Taylor & Francis Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Response to Disaster Psychosocial Community and Ecological Approaches Series in Clinical and Community Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Response to Disaster Psychosocial Community and Ecological Approaches Series in Clinical and Community Psychology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foreign Aid
Book SynopsisForeign Aid: Policy and Practice offers a complete overview of the basics of foreign aid. Who is it for? Who pays for it? Why does it exist? What is it spent on? How much is it? And most important, does it work?The aid debate has been flooded by academic studies and popular books that either challenge or champion the effectiveness of aid. Most presume that the reader already knows the basic facts and characteristics of the aid industry. This book provides readers with a comprehensive summary of the background, actors, core principles and policies, and intended (and unintended) outcomes of foreign aid, followed by a more informed and balanced treatment of the key controversies and trends in aid today. Drawing on the author's 25 years' experience in development practice and 15 years in teaching, the book reflects on recent efforts to accelerate aid's impact and concludes by taking a look at the future of aid and the headwinds it will face in the first half of thTrade Review"An important and timely book as Foreign Aid is being rethought to account for climate change and pandemics. Prof. Pomerantz offers a magistral sweep of the who, why, what, and how of foreign aid and its transformation over six decades, informed by her long experience as practitioner and academic. The book provides both students and practitioners with a clear analysis of the debates on aid modalities and effectiveness. A must read for anyone interested in international affairs."Jean-Louis Sarbib, Former Senior Vice President, The World Bank"Aid is often considered an arcane subject, debated by econometricians and decided by high-level policymakers. This book brings the subject down to earth. Written in an engaging style, the book covers the many controversies surrounding foreign aid and development, while giving the reader a sense of how decisions actually get made. Phyllis Pomerantz distills her experience as a development practitioner and professor to give students knowledge, skills and, most importantly, the ability to make a difference."Shantayanan Devarajan Professor of the Practice of International Development, Georgetown University, USA"Phyllis Pomerantz brings the calm wisdom of an experienced veteran to the polarized debate on foreign aid. She shuns panaceas, because she deeply understands the nuances on how to make aid work better. This is required reading for aid practitioners and those who care about world poverty." William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University and Co-director of the NYU Development Research Institute, USA"This excellent introduction to foreign aid covers all of the key issues, from its basic logic and procedures, to the evolution of the international institutions that have sought to coordinate aid policies, and to recent economic debates about how to make aid more effective. Balanced, clear and readable, this is likely to become the standard text book on the topic." Nicolas van de Walle, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University, USATable of ContentsPart I The Basics of Foreign Aid 1. Introduction 2. Setting the Context 3. The Main Actors: Recipients and Donors 4. How Aid Works Part II Effective Aid: Debates and Trends 5. Judging Donors’ Performance 6.: The Great Aid Effectiveness Debate 7. Opening the "Black Box" of Aid Effectiveness 8. The Rocky Road Towards Aid Effectiveness 9. Summing Up and Looking Ahead
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Humanitarian Parent
Book SynopsisAid sector staff work in some of the world's most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the world changes and the sector diversifies, how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and travel commitments of this particularly difficult career? This book delves deep into these challenges, exposing the problems that persist and pointing a path for organisations to adopt a more human-centred, staff-centred, parent-centred, feminist approach to humanitarian and development work. Drawing on the author's own experiences as an aid worker, as well as extensive original interviews and desk research, the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life, from finding a partner who is willing and able to live in the same location, to dating in difficult coTrade ReviewThe Humanitarian Parent is a watershed addition to the discourse about what it means to be human and purposeful in the humanitarian sector. Hietanen left no stone unturned. The Humanitarian Parent provides a provocative glimpse into what are at once the deeply personal and yet systemic contradictions, paradoxes and intersectionality of parenting in the humanitarian sector.Lucy Ellis, Founder of AidMamas, the global community of mothers in the humanitarian and international development sectorThe Humanitarian Parent is an important contribution for its critique of the organizational culture in the humanitarian sector through a feminist lens and neo-colonial lens. Through its honest and very relatable anecdotes, it is a moving and genuine conversation around the ‘perfect’ humanitarian vis a vis the needs of the affected community, and if appealing to traditional humanitarian archetypes weighs down efforts of fostering genuine progress in the sector.Dr Jessica Hazelwood, Humanitarian Expert This book was so much needed! And it is urgent for all of us to read it. Merit describes the struggle of many of us, parents in the humanitarian field, with depth and empathy, with a broad perspective that, while it acknowledges privileges and advantages of many of us, it bring us together on the challenges we face when becoming parents. Virginia Perez, Chief of Program, UN. Mother of two If you work in the humanitarian or development sector, you need to read this book, irrespective of whether you have children or not. Merit Hietanen depicts compellingly the dire need for a more feminist, anti-colonial, and overall more humane working culture and offers insights into getting there.Liisa Ketolainen, Specialist in gender equality and international relationsIn The Humanitarian Parent, the author explores the realities faced by individuals working in theaid sector, challenging the traditional narrative of a male-dominated field. Drawing on personalexperiences and research, the book sheds light on the complex dynamics of balancingprofessional responsibilities with parenthood. It highlights the increasing presence of womenand mothers in the aid sector, while acknowledging the unique challenges they face. The bookalso addresses the lack of support for working mothers and the impact of cultural norms onwomen’s ability to balance work and family life. Overall, The Humanitarian Parent offers valuableinsights into the intersection of gender, parenthood, and humanitarian work, emphasizing theimportance of supporting gender equality and family-friendly policies in the workplace. Mays Nawayseh, Humanitarian Specialist, MotherMany of us, humanitarians, will recognise bits of our own life on the pages of the Merit’s book The Humanitarian Parent. It will be interesting for humanitarian parents and equally to those who have yet to discover how the humanitarian lifestyle impacts (or often replaces) every single other aspect of human existence. I particularly appreciate the deep dive into the diversity of struggles among the humanitarian workers: not all challenges and people are the same, but all are equally valid. Yuliya Chykol'ba, Humanitarian Mine Action Specialist and co-host of the Ukraine series in the Trumanitarian podcastThe Humanitarian Parent has captured an intimate and detailed account of the challenges and impact aid work has on the family life of staff in the sector. It offers a mosaic of complex and contrasting experiences, with numerous observations and arguments that countless people in the field will be able to relate to and commiserate with, as well as insight for those considering a career in aid work – noting that priorities often change over time and the importance of better understanding the consequences of decisions and sacrifices as it reflects across cultures and genders. Through this book I believe Merit Hietanen provides readers with a sense of fellowship within a community that has too often struggled in seclusion when it comes to matters of the family and work balance. I am grateful to Merit for her efforts in articulating with such clarity feelings and conditions I have struggled to frame and understand when weighing career aspirations against my own role as a husband and father.Teddy Leposky, Operations Officer, UNHCR UkraineTable of ContentsIntroductionPART IThe humanitarian workplace and what it does to parents1 The work culture in a humanitarian workplace2 Why is change necessary and how do we get there?PART IIFor the ones thinking about having children3 Making a decision about having children4 Childless not by choice and how to get out of itPART IIILife of a parent in the aid sector5 Mothers who work on national contracts6 LGBTQIA+ parents7 Single mothers8 Trailing spouses or unemployed aid workers9 Fathers10 The humanitarian nannies: the dependency of aid parents on domestic staffPART IVA sector in change: where do we go next?11 What have policies given us?12 Making humanitarian contexts more compatible with parenthood13 Parental leave: where are we and where should we go?14 Office hours and flexible working arrangements: what needs to change?Epilogue
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Cambridge University Press International Health and Aid Policies
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Cambridge University Press Community Lost The State Civil Society And Displaced Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina
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Cambridge University Press The Contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross
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Cambridge University Press The Contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross
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Cambridge University Press Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Compassion
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Cambridge University Press Aggrieved labor strikes back
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Compassion
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Random House USA Inc Every Minute Is a Day
Book SynopsisAn urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this vivid firsthand account.”—A. J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically When former New York Times journalist Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer’s grave reply—100—was merely the cusp of the crisis that would soon touch every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he’d seen and whom he’d treated. The result is an intimate record of historic turmoil and grief from the perspective of a remarkably resilient ER doctor. Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by Covid-19 and is filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life or death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion, and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved.
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Johns Hopkins University Press NationBuilding
Book SynopsisSutton, Ford Foundation Emeritus; Marvin G. Weinbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTrade ReviewA valuable resource filled with critical reflection and evaluation and offering valuable suggestions to reduce future mistakes... a sober testimony and very highly recommended. Bookwatch 2006 This is an important collection, indeed, offering a clear analysis of the lessons of the past, mistakes made in the present, and humane yet pragmatic recommendations for the future. -- Fatima Raja McGill International Review 2006 A significant contribution to the very young literature about America's experience in nation-building. -- Benjamin Zyla Canadian Army Journal 2006Table of ContentsAckowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Nation-Building and the Failure of Institutional MemoryPart I. The Historical Experience of Nation-Building1. From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career of Nation-Building in U.S. Foreign Reltions2. Nation-Building in the Heydey of the Classic Development Ideology: Ford Founation Experience in the 1950s and 1960s3. Bulding Nations: The American Experience4. Nation-Building: Lessons Learned and UnlearnedPart II. Afghanistan5. Sovereignty and Legitimacy in Afghan Nation-Building6. Rebuilding Afghanistan: Impediments, Loessons, and Prospects7. The Lessons of Nation-Building in AfghanistanPart III. Iraq8. What Went Wring and Right in Iraq9. Striking Out in Baghdad: How Postconflict Reconstruction Went Awry10. Learning the Lessons of IraqConclusion: Guidelines for Future Nation-BuildersContributorsIndex
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Picador USA Ghosts of the Tsunami Death and Life in Japans
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Barcharts, Inc Disaster Preparedness Recovery Quick Study Home
Book SynopsisLaminated for durability, easily stored anywhere, designed for fast access and quick answers, this 6-page guide packs in the essentials of planning and action in the face of a disaster. Protect yourself, loved ones, home, business and property by preparing for what no one expects to happen. Suggested uses: o Planning â Keep in a central location at home or place of business for easy access and review when heading into seasons with the possibility of catastrophic storms â snow, hurricane or tornado o Emergency Kit â add to your home or business emergency or evacuation kit, tornado shelter or safe room o Businesses â offer this guide for free or for sale if you have a business that sells any preparation material or tools to help your customers get what they need
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Arcadia Publishing The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake Disaster
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Arcadia Publishing Portland Firefighting
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Arcadia Publishing The Cle Elum Fire of 1918 Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Chesapeake Bay Shipwrecks
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Arcadia Publishing Train Crash at Crush Texas Americas Deadliest
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History Press Steamboat Disasters of the Lower Missouri River
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History Press Galveston Burning
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History Press Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood
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History Press The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornadoes in Indiana
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Kumarian Press Human Rights and Development
Book SynopsisIn Human Rights and Development, award-winning author Peter Uvin extends the examination of development aid and human rights violations that he presented in his book on the Rwandan genocide, Aiding Violence. Whereas that book is diagnostic, Human Rights and Development is prescriptive - a response to requests from development and human rights organizations to help them effect strategies for reducing conflict and improving human rights outcomes. By advocating a rights-based approach to development, Uvin shows how practitioners can surmount the tough ethical and human rights obstacles encountered in their endeavors. But Human Rights and Development is much more than a ""how to"" book for practitioners. It is also a major scholar's profound, passionate, and clearly written analysis of the need to effect principled social change throughout the global arena that solidifies rather than fragments our common humanity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments/Abbreviations and Acronyms; Introduction 1; Part I: Some Debates Of Relevance To The Development Practitioner; Chapter 1 Background; The Big Picture; The Human Rights Debates; Chapter 2 The Legal Challenges; The Charge of Eurocentrism; The Contested Nature of Second- and Third-Generation Rights; Part I: Human Rights In The Practice Of Development; Chapter 3 The Basics; Rhetorical Incorporation; Chapter 4 Political Conditionality; History of Conditionality; Difficulties; Beyond Aid Conditionality; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Positive Support; The Practice of Positive Support; The Tools of Positive Support; Does Positive Support - If Not All Aid - Undermine Governance by Definition?; Conclusion; Post-Script: The Issue of Coherence; Chapter 6 A Rights-Based Approach to Development; Vision; Process; Some Practical Implications of a Rights-Based Approach to Development; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Final Synthesis and Questions; A Synthesis of the Arguments; A Step Back: Big Trends and Questions; Choices Among Rights; A Fear: Is This Agenda Too Interventionist?; Notes / Bibliography / Index
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Kumarian Press How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisInternational development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the field as aid providers themselves, and international charity is being redefined with the resources of private donors like the Gates Foundation, for example, outstripping the annual budget of long-time donors like the UK, Canada or the World Health Organization. Lacking in the literature on international development is an introductory text that provides an overview of the practices of the 'business' of development. ""How the Aid Industry Works"" provides a basic description of what aid practices are and how they evolved. The arguments of both proponents and opponents of aid are presented and analyzed, along with real-life examples of projects and programs in context. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the subject of development for the first time, the book also serves as an overview for development practitioners who want a handy reference covering the universe they inhabit.
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University College Dublin Press Facilitating the Future?: US Aid, European
Book SynopsisAfter the Second World War the Irish state maintained the high industrial tariffs of the 1930s, despite the inefficiency of its protected industries. Such inefficiency fed into the crisis of economic stagnation and mass emigration that engulfed the Republic in the 1950s. As EEC entry became the state's goal, adapting and upgrading Irish industries for free trade conditions loomed large in the 1960s. These ends were pursued through technical assistance schemes and a productivity drive - innovations introduced to the Irish state by the US Marshall Plan. This book looks at this neglected aspect of post-war Irish history and analyses the social, political and economic effects of the policies pursued.Trade Review'Murray has produced an important historical account that all students of the economic development of modern Ireland will have to take account of in the future.' Irish Studies Review, August 2010 "This book might be a rejoinder to Fosters as it shows that the economic development of the Republic and its prosperity up to the current recession were the product of decades of policy and planning. Murray shows how the stagnation of the Republic in the 1950s and mass emigration led to a radical rethink in the state's economic policies. Joining the European Economic Community was seen as the best means to ensure economic prosperity. To do that meant ditching inefficient domestic industries, modernising the industrial sector and supporting innovation. To achieve this Ireland accepted US aid under the Marshall Plan which enabled schemes to improve industrial technology and productivity. Murray follows this through showing the long-term impact of these policies and charting the rise in Irish industrial visibility and how all this fitted into the plans to join the EEC." Books Ireland September 2009 'Murray, who teaches Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, presents a policy and institutional analysis of a critical period for the Irish Republic. Caught amid the economic promise of Europe and the US-promoted Cold War vision of global capitalism, Ireland recognised that its future would rest in best taking advantage of its hard-won independence to transform itself. Distancing Ireland from continued overreliance on trade relations with the UK, the republic tried to leverage both the US and Europe to set it own course to economic independence. While examining the importance of education, labour, management and government, Murray explicates the very complicated role of government policy and the bewildering variety of acronymic government bureaus. To no one's surprise, the author reveals the very uneven accomplishments of policy initiatives over the period studied. To answer the title's eponymous question, Murray would respond with the qualified 'maybe'. Recommended to undergraduates and above.' Choice August 2010 Vol. 47 No. 11 'Peter Murray's deftly researched and well-argued book is an important addition to the scholarly literature probing the actual working and influence of the E.R.P. (European Recovery program). One of a growing number of country-specific studies, Murray's work reveals an important dimension of the relationship between Marshall Aid, European business recovery and local challenges posed by American post-war economic dominance: he shows how Marshall Aid largesse often acted as a double-edged sword, carrying both the hopeful promise of economic rehabilitation, but, with it, the heavy cost of reforming indigenous business practices in line with American managerial models.Murray's work illuminates the historic persistence of Ireland's long, frustrating struggle to achieve full economic independence.' Irish Historical Studies 37 (146) 2010Table of ContentsProtected Irish Industry and Post-War European Free Trade; Marshall Plan Innovations: Technical Assistance and the Productivity Drive; US Innovations After US Aid: Technical Assistance and Irish Industry, 1952-73; Industrial Adaptation Partners? Government, Business and Trade Unions; Educating Trade Unionists; Developing Managers; Remoulding Mainstream Education and Inaugurating Science Policy; Shaping Social Science Research; The Impact of Innovations and the Context of Institutions; Notes; References; Index.
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University of Arizona Press Sowing the Seeds of Change: The Story of the
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World Health Organization The Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Health Laboratory Facilities in Emergency and
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