Essays about: "humanitarian needs assessment"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words humanitarian needs assessment.

1. 1. Potential and Limitations of the Sketch Map Tool in the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Kimon Letzner; [2024]
   Keywords : Disaster risk reduction; Participatory action research; Community risk mapping; International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement; Colombia; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : In disaster risk management, participatory mapping (PM) closes spatial data gaps in communities by integrating local risk knowledge. The thesis examined the potential and limitations of the Sketch Map Tool (SMT) as a PM tool for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement case study. READ MORE

3. 2. Anticipating Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs): an impact-based forecasting framework for managing GLOF risks in Nepal.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Grace Muir; [2023]
   Keywords : Anticipatory Action; Impact-based Forecasting; Glacier Lake Outburst Flood; Nepal; Risk-informed Early Action; Prediction; Disaster Risk Management; Science General;

   Abstract : Glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs) are an increasingly documented threat across the Himalayan region, wherein Nepal is situated. GLOFs involve a rapid discharge of water from a lake situated at the side, front, within, beneath, or on the surface of a glacier. READ MORE

4. 3. The continuous and inextricable interaction between gender and humanitarian technology as a site of production of vulnerability : The case of UNHCR´s assessment framework in Jordan

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Isadora Seconi; [2022]
   Keywords : Vulnerability; Gender; Humanitarian technology;

   Abstract : The present thesis attempted to address a significant gap in both academic and humanitarian literature concerning the significance of humanitarian data for the construction of vulnerable identities as stereotypically gendered. This thesis inquired humanitarian datafication as a new site of production of vulnerability, with specific mechanisms such as automatization of gendered bias, opacity of processes, multiplication of effects as well as elements of surveillance and consequent conscious self-performances. READ MORE

5. 4. Beyond toll-free lines and complaints boxes : A study of accountability and participation in humanitarian action in Chad

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Elina Anderson; [2020]
   Keywords : Accountability; Participation; Humanitarian Action; Affected populations; Chad;

   Abstract : In this thesis we look further into Oxfam and Action Against Hunger’s use of the concepts of accountability and participation, how the concepts are informing the programming of humanitarian interventions as well as their materialization in the implementation of the programs in Chad. The study is based on a literature review with secondary sources as the basis of the research material. READ MORE

6. 5. What about Men? : The gendered hierarchy of vulnerability in humanitarian aid

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Philene Moquette; [2019]
   Keywords : men; gender; gender mainstreaming; gender equality; humanitarian action;

   Abstract : Gender mainstreaming has become a widely discussed and applied tool, aimed to aid progress towards gender equality. The latter has been an important aspect of international development and humanitarian action, as is evident from the Sustainable Development Goals. READ MORE