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Disaster Information
Articles and News
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Relevant articles addressing international disaster relief, with a focus
on international donations management and prerequisites for offering
technical assistance.
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Stop
Propagating Disaster Myths |
Dr. Claude de Ville
de Goyet
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
1999
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Relief
- Fiasco |
Frank Greve describes
donations distributed in Honduras in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch. The
description provides excellent guidance on donation issues.
Knight Ridder
March 1999
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Disaster
Response Career |
Robin Haydon
Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
March 2000
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Food Crises Nicked with Cash
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Is there another way
to prevent disaster? Are techniques for humanitarian aid management
worth reconsideration? Anticipation aid in the form of money for
community work is being tried in several African countries as a measure to
prevent and reduce the need to post-disaster hand-outs.
AlertNet
17 August 2007 |
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Do-Good Voluntourism
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Gap-year volunteers
participating in work-aid experience generate a number of issues for
consideration. There are pitfalls for the do-gooder, as well as
questions about effectiveness and burden brought to the activity by the
volunteer.
AlertNet
15 August 2007 |
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Crises' Remittances
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Immigrants send
money to their country of origin and this can be an especially important
contribution at the time of a humanitarian response need. What role is
played by such remittances is the subject of this ODI Humanitarian Policy
Group brief and case studies.
Overseas Development Institute
HPG Briefing Paper 26
May 2007 |
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Cash
Aid Benefits
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The money going into
villages of Africa has positive effect, though the volume required exceeds
the efforts generally applied.
AlertNet
18 July 2007 |
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Cash Trumps Food Benefits
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The solution to need
is the same in both countries of relative rich or poor tradition.
AlertNet
10 July 2007 |
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Embassies and Reliefs Say Hold Off
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Too cumbersome and
too costly are the sentiments directed to the public by embassies and relief
organizations when it comes to offers of anything but monetary aid from the
public for use in the Indo-West Pacific.
Newsday.com
30 December 2004 |
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The Joy of Receipting
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Another big reason
why Cash Is Best. The increased importance of having a receipt
at tax time is simplified by making a monetary donation. Financial
institutions produce good records.
NBC News
10 January 2007 |
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A Matter of Trust
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The grandest part of
charity comes not from corporations and from high profile foundations, but
rather from everyday folks finding a few dollars here and a few dollars
there to contribute. Such community philanthropy increasingly derives
from like-minded people pooling their input to have greater effect through
combination.
20 November 2006 |
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Excess Medical Personnel
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Too many medical
personnel - this is a problem seen before - a not uncommon problem.
AlertNet
28 July 2006 |
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Cash Is Best |
The Indonesian
Earthquake response is an excellent backdrop for reiterating the long time
expressed guidance for public support - cash is best. Why?
US News & World Report
30 May 2006 |
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Clothes Mess |
Clothing sent for
tsunami relief ended up discarded and destroyed for several reasons.
Most often the clothing was not suitable for use, either by its quality or
the culture for which it was intended. Consider the dignity of the
tsunami victims.
5 October 2005 |
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Sri Lanka Thongs |
. . . along with
stiletto heels and expired cans of salmon and winter coats
. . . more
frustrated cargo shipped . . .
11 February 2005 |
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Dead Bodies Not a Risk
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Fears about the
dangers that dead bodies pose to the survivors of natural disasters are
mistaken.
This is a very common misconception and is perpetuated throughout the world.
editorial -
espanol
5 June 2004 |
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An Overdose of Dosage |
The management of
medical donations is very intensive and fraught with potential dangers.
It can far outstrip the need and lead to public endangerment.
1 March 2004 |
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Cheap Talk Problem |
Out of date and
bearing toxic compounds if not recycled properly, cell phones no longer
suitable in the North American and European markets are anticipated to
migrate as donations to developing countries.
31 October 2003 |
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Yes, Kwacha No |
In
a country of hunger there is food. The people of Malawi more often
lack the money to eat well.
30 September 2002
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| Stuck
in Customs |
Without
itemized lists, red tape on shipped goods gets longer and longer.
27 September 2002
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| SUMA
Mitigates Second Disaster |
When
countries are flooded with unnecessary or excessive supplies, management
is critical. Helping to avoid this second disaster is the SUpply
MAnagement (SUMA) program of PAHO.
18 April 2002
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