Aid & Relief Programmes

The term sanctuary city gained a new level of national recognition during the 2016 United States presidential election, and immigration policies an...

Numerous books on the topic of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been published hitherto. Yet, no one has written about the fire an...

Nearly all major roads and bridges in the United States are part of the federal-aid highway system and are therefore eligible for assistance from t...

For more than 50 years, the United States, which accounts for about half of global food aid supplies, has played an important role in alleviating m...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reduces the average delivery time frame for emergency food aid by prepositioning food domesti...

Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and communities in long-term disaster recovery. Rebuilding Lives Post-Disaster br...

When I went to medical school, I never dreamt, that as a doctor, one day the biggest contribution I would make to peoples health, would be to hand ...

This report examines the disaster resilience efforts of the executive and legislative branches of government and public-private partnerships. Its r...

This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare sys...

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 exposed the severe consequences of breakdowns in emergency comm...

Federal agencies provide a range of assistance to individual victims; state, territorial, and local governments; and non-governmental entities afte...

Much like the large commercial companies, most humanitarian aid organisations now have departments specifically dedicated to protecting the securit...

While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that enco...

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potentia...