The humanitarian sector has gone through a major shift toward injection of cash into vulnerable communities as its core modality. On this trajectory direct currency injection, something new happened: namely the empowerment to create their own local currencies, tool known Complementary Currency systems. This study mobilizes concepts endogenous regional development, import substitution and market...

International humanitarian aid provides assistance such as food, shelter, and health or counseling services across national boundaries to communities in need. Universally, international humanitarian aid organizations play a critical role, by supporting the survival and recovery of communities affected by crises such as natural disasters, conflicts or disease epidemics. In most instances the tec...

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OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics, motivations, ideologies, experience and perspectives of experienced medical humanitarian workers. DESIGN We applied a qualitative descriptive approach and conducted in-depth semistructured interviews, containing open-ended questions with directing probes, with 44 experienced international medical aid workers from a wide range of humanitarian organisat...