Humanitarian Business

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745665221

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Humanitarian Business by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

With some 50 million people living under duress and threatened by wars and disasters in 2012, the demand for relief worldwide has reached unprecedented levels. Humanitarianism is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise, and aid agencies are obliged to respond to a range of economic forces in order to 'stay in business'. In his customarily hard-hitting analysis, Thomas G. Weiss offers penetrating insights into the complexities and challenges of the contemporary humanitarian marketplace. In addition to changing political and military conditions that generate demand for aid, private suppliers have changed too. Today’s political economy places aid agencies side-by-side with for-profit businesses, including private military and security companies, in a marketplace that also is linked to global trade networks in illicit arms, natural resources, and drugs. This witch’s brew is simmering in the cauldron of wars that are often protracted and always costly to civilians who are the very targets of violence. While belligerents put a price-tag on access to victims, aid agencies pursue branding in a competition for 'scarce' resources relative to the staggering needs. As marketization encroaches on traditional humanitarianism, it seems everything may have a priceÑfrom access and principles, to moral authority and lives.

Author : R. Tomasini,L. Van Wassenhove,Luk Van Wassenhove
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230233485

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Humanitarian Logistics by R. Tomasini,L. Van Wassenhove,Luk Van Wassenhove Pdf

Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are up against. Oversights result in serious consequences for the victims of disasters. So they have to get it right, fast.

Author : Roger Mac Ginty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197563397

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Everyday Peace by Roger Mac Ginty Pdf

The everyday, circuitry, and scalability -- Sociality, reciprocity and reciprocity -- Power -- Parley, truce and ceasefire -- Everyday peace on the battlefield -- Gender and everyday peace -- Conflict disruption.

Author : Maram Ahmed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030832094

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Innovative Humanitarian Financing by Maram Ahmed Pdf

Humanitarian crises have become more frequent, complex and protracted. If current trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030, humanitarian assistance costs could increase to $50 billion per year. By then, two-thirds of the world’s poor are at risk of living in conflict-affected countries. To bridge the gap, humanitarian organizations are increasingly utilizing innovative financing tools such as impact bonds, faith-based finance and other innovative financial products and services to mobilize greater funding to address humanitarian needs. This book is among the first to assess a set of innovative financing mechanisms that have been transforming the humanitarian sector and explores their key opportunities, challenges and future prospects. This book will be of interest to academics, practitioners, humanitarian organizations and policy makers involved in humanitarian financing and to the humanitarian sector in general.

Author : Alessandra Cozzolino
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642301865

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Humanitarian Logistics by Alessandra Cozzolino Pdf

​​​​​​​​​​​​Humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest both from logistics academics and practitioners as a result of the dramatic increase in both natural and man-made disasters. The impact on affected populations can be all the more limited as much as the logistics operations in response to emergencies are effective and efficient. Collaboration with various relevant actors involving in the emergency resolution can help to reduce costs, increase speed, and improve the leanness/agility level in the humanitarian supply chain, and viceversa, poor coordination among them is cited as an explanation for performance gaps. As disasters become increasingly complex better collaboration not only with government agencies, military units, humanitarian organizations, but also through partnerships with private business becomes more and more important. However, such partnerships are not easy as organizations in the two sectors are extremely different. The main aim of this study is exploring more in depth the partnership between profit and non-profit in emergency relief operations, with a specific attention to the cross-learning potential for both the logistics service provider (profit) and the humanitarian organization (non-profit).

Author : B.S. Sahay,Sumeet Gupta,Vinod Chandra Menon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132224167

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Managing Humanitarian Logistics by B.S. Sahay,Sumeet Gupta,Vinod Chandra Menon Pdf

This book discusses emerging themes in the area of humanitarian logistics. It examines how humanitarian logistics and supply chains play a key role, focusing on rapidly delivering the correct amount of goods, people and monetary resources to the locations needed to achieve the success of relief efforts in response to global emergencies such as flood, earthquakes, wars etc. With an increase in the frequency, magnitude and impact of both natural and manmade disasters, effective delivery of humanitarian aid is an issue that is becoming increasingly important in the context of disaster management. The book focuses on how logistics systems and supply chains responsible for delivering this aid from origin to recipients can be made more effective and efficient. It also discusses how the development of information technology systems that can provide visibility to the disaster relief supply chain marks a huge step forward for the humanitarian sector as a whole. As more organizations begin to adopt and implement these systems and visibility is established, the use of key performance indicators will then become essential to further enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of these supply chains.

Author : Oliver May
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317032229

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Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector by Oliver May Pdf

There are an estimated 40,000 international Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), working in an enormous global aid industry; official development assistance alone reached £90bn in 2014. This is supplemented by huge voluntary giving – the UK public, for example, give around £1bn a year to overseas causes. These organisations face a unique challenge from fraud and corruption. Operating in the world’s most under-developed and fragile environments, with minimal infrastructure and trust-based cultures, the risk is high. And, being wholly reliant on donors and supporters for income, so are the stakes. Researchers make different estimates of the scale of the problem facing the sector. Some research implies that losses to the global aid budget caused by occupational fraud and abuse may be in the billions of pounds, while those to the British public's voluntary overseas donations could be in the tens of millions. For many sector professionals working in the developing world, these estimates are readily believable. Fighting Fraud and Corruption in the Humanitarian and Global Development Sector by Oliver May is a timely, accessible and relevant how-to guide, which explores the scale and nature of the threat, debunks pervasive myths, and shows readers how to help their NGOs to better deter, prevent, detect and respond to fraud and corruption.

Author : B. Everill,J. Kaplan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137270023

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The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa by B. Everill,J. Kaplan Pdf

The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa.

Author : Martin Christopher,Peter Tatham
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780749462468

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Humanitarian Logistics by Martin Christopher,Peter Tatham Pdf

In 2007, there were 34 armed conflicts worldwide. That same year, a total of 414 natural disasters affected 211 million people. "Humanitarian Logistics" examines the challenges facing those whose role it is to organize and distribute resources in difficult situations.

Author : Samantha Nutt
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children and war
ISBN : 9780771051456

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Damned Nations by Samantha Nutt Pdf

The extraordinary humanitarian Samantha Nutt gives a bracing and uncompromising account of her work in some of the most devastated corners of the world - and a new, provocative vision for changing course on growing militarisation. It is a brilliant distillation of Dr Nutt's observations over the course of 15 years providing hands-on care in some of the world's most violent flashpoints. Combining original research with her personal story, it is a deeply thoughtful meditation on war as it is being waged around the world against millions of civilians.

Author : Andreas Krieg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400753747

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Motivations for Humanitarian intervention by Andreas Krieg Pdf

This Brief sheds light on the motivation of humanitarian intervention from a theoretical and empirical point of view. An in-depth analysis of the theoretical arguments surrounding the issue of a legitimate motivation for humanitarian intervention demonstrate to what extent either altruism or national/self-interests are considered a righteous stimulus. The question about what constitutes a just intervention has been at the core of debates in Just War Theory for centuries. In particular in regards to humanitarian intervention it is oftentimes difficult to define the criteria for a righteous intervention. More than in conventional military interventions, the motivation and intention behind humanitarian intervention is a crucial factor. Whether the humanitarian intervention cases of the post-Cold War era were driven by altruistic or by self-interested considerations is a question is covered within and enables a comprehensive and holistic evaluation of the question of what motivates Western democracies to intervene or to abstain from intervention in humanitarian crises. ​

Author : Global Investment and Business Center, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Int'l Business Publications
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0739701207

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International Humanitarian Organizations Directory by Global Investment and Business Center, Inc. Staff Pdf

Author : Hans-Joachim Heintze,Andrej Zwitter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642164552

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International Law and Humanitarian Assistance by Hans-Joachim Heintze,Andrej Zwitter Pdf

It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are major gaps in International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law in the area of humanitarian assistance. In response international organizations such as the UN and the EU are developing their own legal frameworks for humanitarian assistance and the body of customary law and so-called international disaster response law is growing steadily. This however shows that a coherent body of law is far from being a given. The legal reality of international law pertaining to emergency response is rather broadly spread over various international legal fields and related documents, covering situations of armed conflict and natural disasters. This book is one of the first attempts of linking different legal areas in the growing field of what could be called the international law of humanitarian assistance.

Author : Taghipour, Atour
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799838067

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Demand Forecasting and Order Planning in Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics by Taghipour, Atour Pdf

In a decentralized supply chain, most of the supply chain agents may not share information due to confidentiality policies, quality of information, or different system incompatibilities. Every actor holds its own set of information and attempts to maximize its objective (minimizing costs/minimizing inventory holdings) based on the available settings. Therefore, the agents control their own activities with the objective of improving their own competitiveness, which leads them to make decisions that maximize their local performance by ignoring the other agents or even the final consumer. These decisions are myopic because they do not consider the performance of all the partners to satisfy the consumer. Demand Forecasting and Order Planning in Supply Chains and Humanitarian Logistics is a collection of innovative research that focuses on demand anticipation, forecasting, and order planning as well as humanitarian logistics to propose original solutions for existing problems. While highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, information sharing, and operations management, this book is ideally designed for supply chain managers, logistics personnel, business executives, management experts, operation industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students who want to improve their understanding of supply chain coordination in order to be competitive in the new era of globalization.

Author : D. Pocock,J. Whitman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349247080

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After Rwanda by D. Pocock,J. Whitman Pdf

When the United Nations sanctions a humanitarian relief operation, how can the numerous and diverse UN, Non-Governmental Organizations and military elements be coordinated? What are the practical, political and institutional considerations and impediments? What can be learned from previous experience? This is a volume of practitioner perspectives: the views of distinguished individuals from all of the concerned professions, including former Special Representatives of the Secretary-General and Force Commanders, as well as senior UN officials and representatives of the NGO community.