Tag Archives: HUMANITARIAN

Foreign Aid and Remittance: Crash Course Economics #34

What is foreign aid? How much foreign aid does the United States distribute each year. Comparatively, not much. In fact, foreign aid only accounts for a small fraction of most nations’ overall spending. But it’s hugely important. Foreign aid improves healthcare, can promote economic growth, and assists people who’ve been through disasters. Remittances are moneys […]

Humanitarian aid and evacuation of non-combatants

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment and the Amphibious Ready Element (ARE) move from HMAS Canberra to Atherton tablelands and conduct a simulated Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief (HADR) activity as part of Exercise Sea Series. Australia’s newest military capability, the Amphibious Ready Element (ARE) is training in the waters off Far North Queensland from […]

Humanitarian Aid and Spatial Technology in the Age of Ubiquitous Real-Time Location Data

Personal location data is now routinely collected, aggregated, and analyzed from an astonishing range of devices, data feeds, and social situations. Social media, online advertising, financial transactions, ride-sharing, and digital navigation constantly collect individual location signals at high resolution in both space and time. AI can be trained on this data to make commercial and […]

Anders Fänge on Lessons from a Life in Humanitarian Aid

Anders Fänge spent many years as the director of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), which began its work in the early 1980s when the Soviet invasion had displaced millions of people. SCA became one of the largest, and most innovative and successful NGOs in Afghanistan helping hundreds of thousands of people. One of Fänge’s […]

Managing innovation in the humanitarian aid sector

Send us a textWe often talk about innovation being a survival issue – but in the context of humanitarian aid it takes on a very literal meaning. Crises, whether natural or man-made, require rapid problem solving if agencies and aid workers are to avoid the huge negative impacts of such disasters. For a long time […]

Israel will boost humanitarian aid to Gaza | Patrick Hilsman

The IDF has announced that it will increase the volume of humanitarian assistance entering the Gaza Strip in the near future. This decision comes as they have established new pathways that utilize an Israeli seaport and border crossings to facilitate aid delivery to the territory. To tell us more we invited columnist Patrick Hilsman. #tvpworld […]