Aid & Relief Programmes

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian soc...

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their homes and heritage. Surging push...

Cash on Delivery (COD) Aid proposes a new approach to foreign assistance one that links aid payments more directly to desired outcomes to promote a...

Perhaps no country benefitted more from the Marshall Plan for assistance in reconstruction of Europe after World War II than Austria. On a per capi...

Since the creation of the Department for International Development, the purpose of UK development policy and aid has changed significantly. This bo...

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary ...

Composed of activists, academics, religious scholars and professionals, this generation is drawing on new reformist thinking emerging from outside ...

At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity. However, food insecurity has pe...

This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the markets and governments inability to provide vital se...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

This book aims at uncovering the politics behind the provision of US foreign aid to Pakistan during three distinctive periods: the Cold War, the po...

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become...

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) i...

When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction. Many catastrophic disaster plans include support from neighboring jurisdictions tha...

From the brink of dissolution in 1945 to the triumph of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, via the Nuremberg Trials, runaway Nazis, and furious battle...

This book spells out a new framework for humanitarian aid in the long emergency of climate change. Looking ahead to the massive needs of the late 2...

Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines, but in recent years, the response to these events ha...

Community Engagement in Post-Disaster Recovery reflects a wide array of practical experiences in working with disaster-affected communities interna...

In an era marked by profound disparities, this book explores the significant waysthe pandemic has deepened gender inequalities in the labor, educat...

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East T...

In more than one hundred developing countries, international organizations continuously offer practical assistance for economic advancement and soc...

A sparkling satire on international aid and celebrity, Looking for Bono charts one man's accidental quest to bring water to his community.Baba is a...

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for dec...