Humanitarian assistance: standards, skills, training, and experience

Competency-based standardized training for humanitarian providers: making humanitarian assistance a professional discipline.

The number of people employed in international humanitarian care is growing at a yearly rate of 6%. The demand for better coordination, accountability, and training has led to a need for standardized humanitarian training programs for providers. Training should be based on comprehensive core competencies that providers must demonstrate in addition to their skill-specific competencies. This repo...

Burma and the challenge of humanitarian assistance.

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 October 27, 2007 1465 the community are homogeneous. The authors also assume that their single rural site in South Africa is typical. Although models must be intuitively plausible and qualitatively accurate, model validation does not necessarily follow from a good fi t to the available data, because many complex models can fi t limited data quite well. Many people in t...

Governing catastrophes: security, health and humanitarian assistance

Recent catastrophes, and predictions of an increasing potential for more, have stimulated thinking about the best policy responses to these threats. This article explores how security concepts influence catastrophe governance. The article considers how globalization affects thinking about catastrophes and describes ways in which catastrophes have been conceptualized as governance challenges, su...

Blocking humanitarian assistance: a crime against humanity?

Food and Shelter Standards in Humanitarian Action

The number of disasters, both natural as well as man-made, has been increasing in frequency in the recent years. This leads to short as well as long-term effects on food security and shelter, requiring humanitarian assistance. This article aims to identify the principles and standards that are applicable to food and shelter related aid that needs to be provided by the co-operation of the local ...