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Anti-Corruption and Humanitarian Aid Management in Ukraine

Martin, Paola; Wu, Owen Q.; Yakymova, Larysa - 2023

Problem Definition: The flow of humanitarian aid, both monetary and in-kind, as a response to the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was unprecedented. In this context, one of the most pressing issues is how to regulate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the final...

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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - 2015

the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency … drawing on real-life examples from the small but growing academic literature, we demonstrate how impact evaluation methods can … limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation is one way of achieving this. …

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What methods may be used in impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

to examine the extent to which scientific impact evaluation methods can provide evidence to help improve the … impact evaluation methods be used successfully and in an ethical manner to learn about how to improve humanitarian assistance … the lack of funds, doing more with limited resources is a key challenge for humanitarian assistance and impact evaluation …

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What Methods May Be Used in Impact Evaluations of Humanitarian Assistance?

Puri, Jyotsna; Aladysheva, Anastasia; Iversen, Vegard; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions

Usmani, Faraz; Jeuland, Marc; Pattanayak, Subhrendu - 2021

Interventions led by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are often more effective than comparable efforts by other actors, yet relatively little is known about how implementer identity drives final outcomes. Combining a stratified field experiment in India with a triple-differences estimation...

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Humanitarian vs. Development Aid for Refugees : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

MacPherson, Claire - 2019

Assistance to refugees living in camps is shifting from a humanitarian model, based on care and maintenance, to a development model that promotes refugee self-reliance through income-generating activities, market development, and cash transfers. Evidence on the effects of this paradigm shift is...

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Benefiting from Disaster? : Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake

Park, Albert - 2016

We provide the first household survey-based evidence on the impact of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on the welfare of rural households. Asset and income losses were substantial, especially in seriously affected areas. Our main finding is that there was an overwhelming government response to the...

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Aid, catastrophes and the Samaritan's Dilemma

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of foreign aid on the recipient country's preparedness against natural disasters. The theoretical model shows that foreign aid can have two opposing effects on a country's level of mitigating activities. In order to test the theoretical propositions we analyse the...

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On the channel and type of international disaster aid

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwindt, Manijeh - 2009

donor's behavior. Since all aid is not motivated by the same reasons, the evaluation of the donor country's behavior …

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How Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – UAV’s – (or Drones) Can Help in Case of Natural Disasters Response and Humanitarian Relief Aid?

Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo - 2019

response and humanitarian relief aid. There are (i) the aerial monitoring post-natural disaster damage evaluation, (ii) the …

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