The Humanitarian Machine (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections from Practice
Redaktion: Otegui, Diego Fernandez; Yoder-Bontrager, Daryl

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about their work and the ways in which they each approach the challenges of helping people, they comment on some of the most vexing issues facing the humanitarian sector.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000402094
• Artikelnr.: 61776133

Autorenporträt

Diego Fernandez Otegui has almost 25 years of experience in emergency management and humanitarian affairs, working in East Timor, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mozambique, Trinidad and Tobago, and Spain. He is a board member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and Representative in the United States of the University Network of the Americas for Disaster Risk Reduction (REDULAC) and has a PhD in Disaster Science and Management at the University of Delaware, USA. Daryl Yoder-Bontrager has worked for over 20 years in humanitarian assistance and community development with Mennonite Central Committee, ultimately becoming Director of its Latin America and Caribbean programs and helping to lead the organization's responses to Hurricane Mitch in Central America and the 2010 Haiti earthquake as well as countless smaller disasters in the region. He holds a PhD in Disaster Science and Management at the University of Delaware, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Section 1. Flexibility and Standardization: Standards
in Humanitarian Delivery Introduction to the conversation 1. How Standards
Contribute to the Humanitarian Sector (Aninia Nadig) 2. FAO Goats Don't
Die: Can Evaluations Make Aid More Inclusive? (Marta Bruno) 3. COVID and
Cholera: Reflections on Humanitarian Principles and their Impact on Public
Health Emergencies (David Eisenbaum) 4. How to Be Relevant: A Personal
Journey in the Aid System (Volker Huls) 5. Flexibility in Fragility (Helen
Barclay-Hollands) Extending the conversation Section 2. Freedom and
Control: The Mechanisms of Humanitarian Delivery Introduction to the
conversation 7. A Behind the Desk View of Responding to a Disaster (Marie
Anne Sliwinski) 8. Ensuring Shared Best Practices are in Place (Gary Shaye)
9. Connecting both Ends and Completing the Humanitarian Cycle: Engaging
Donors in a European Context (Naomi Enns) 10. The Role of Volunteers (Jono
Anzalone) 11. Action learning in the Anthropocene (Pat Foley) Extending the
conversation Section 3. Culture and Power: The Value of Humanitarian
Interventions Introduction to the conversation 11. Invisible to Systems,
Invisible to Help (Kendra Pospychalla) 13. Security Management: Local
Responsibility, Local Engagement (Andrew Cunningham) 14. Starting from
Within (Rami Shamma) 15. The Politics of Genocide Prevention and the Limits
of Humanitarian Neutrality (Matthew Levinger) 16. Between coordination and
communities: Navigating competing perspectives after Hurricane Matthew in
Haiti (2016-2019) (Paul Shelter Fast) Extending the conversation Conclusion