Essays about: "humanitarian service"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words humanitarian service.

  1. 1. Dynamic Risk Management in Air Traffic Management System Failures

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Nick Lowth; [2024]
    Keywords : Air Traffic Control; Uncertainty; Risk Management; Air Traffic Management; Resilience; Emergence; Trade-offs; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Context This research looks at managing uncertainty and recovery processes following failure of a sociotechnical system. The provision of Air Traffic Services (ATS) is an essential service that must continue to function supporting at a minimum; medical flights, search and rescue operations, humanitarian aid, State and military flights (as demonstrated during the recent global pandemic). READ MORE

  3. 2. Interventions to prevent Gender-Based Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo : A driving force for the empowerment of women and girls?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Celine Brixander; [2023]
    Keywords : empowerment; gender-based violence; Democractic Republic of Congo;

    Abstract : Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a widespread international public health and human rights issue that disproportionately affects women and girls. In humanitarian crises all forms of GBV are exacerbated, and especially during conflict where GBV in some settings affects 70 per cent of women. READ MORE

  4. 3. Humanitarian Logistics: The Outsourcing Collaboration with Logistics Service Providers in the UN System

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Katrin Kandler; Jennifer Siller; [2022]
    Keywords : Humanitarian Logistics; Logistics Service Providers; Outsourcing Collaboration; Selection Criteria for Collaboration; UN System; Disaster Cycle;

    Abstract : Background: Collaboration between humanitarian organisations and commercial as well as humanitarian logistics service providers has become of utmost importance when outsourcing logistics activities. Selection criteria for choosing suitable logistics service providers areessential for the success of outsourcing collaboration and disaster operations. READ MORE

  5. 4. When mitigation of xenophobia becomes part of the humanitarian agenda : an examination of the social cohesion strategies in the Venezuelan migration situation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Linnea Lovisa Karlsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Communication strategies; Do No Harm; Intergroup Contact theory; intergroup relations; migration; prejudice; social cohesion; social dynamics; xenophobia;

    Abstract : Xenophobia ‘fear and hatred of strangers’ has become part of the international humanitarian agenda with the increased human mobility due to complex emergencies. Nevertheless, there is a knowledge gap in how to address such a complex social problem. READ MORE

  6. 5. The nexus between child protection and gender-based violence programming; the impact for displaced adolescent girls in Jordan

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Victoria Sheppard; [2019]
    Keywords : Humanitarian; Emergency; Displacement; Refugee; Gender; Gender-Based Violence; Child Protection; Adolescents; Rights-Based Programming; Participation; Coordination; United Nations;

    Abstract : Gender-based violence (GBV) and violence against children are pervasive and destructive globally, but the exacerbation of violence in emergency contexts makes addressing them an urgent priority in humanitarian action. However, despite recognition of overlapping risks and intervention opportunities, child protection programming and GBV programming have hitherto followed discrete trajectories, resulting in adolescent (aged between 10 and 19 years) girls falling between the domains, despite their heightened vulnerability to GBV. READ MORE