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Wars and natural disasters have increasingly placed humanitarian workers in the crossfire and in the news. This text looks at the reality facing nations and individuals, from refugees to relief organisations.

NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing areas in need of assistance, how do these organizations decide where to go--and who gets the aid? In The Good Project, Monika Krause dives into the intricacies of the decision-making process at NGOs and uncovers a basic truth: It may be the case that relief agencies try to help people but, in practical terms, the main focus of their work is to produce projects. Agencies sell projects to key institutional donors, and in the process the project and its beneficiaries become commodities. In an effort to guarantee a successful project, organizations are incentivized to help those who are easy to help, while those who are hardest to help often receive no assistance at all. The poorest of the world are made to compete against each other to become projects--and in exchange they offer legitimacy to aid agencies and donor governments. Sure to be controversial, The Good Project offers a provocative new perspective on how NGOs succeed and fail on a local and global level.--

Résumé En revenant sur les origines de l'aide humanitaire au Royaume-Uni, cet article examine la constitution de secours comme nouveau champ de vocations caractérisé par un ethos de « compassion rationnelle ». Il analyse les fondements des rivalités d'intervention entre la Société nationale britannique d'aide aux malades et blessés de guerre et le Fonds de secours aux victimes de guerre constitué par les Quakers durant la guerre franco-prussienne, et les différents sens et investissements moraux à l'œuvre dans une administration des secours de plus en plus systématisée. L'auteur utilise ainsi les archives des organisations et les témoignages de première main de ces travailleurs sociaux pour montrer le développement de nouveaux rôles et pratiques de secours jusqu'à présent peu étudiés des historiens.

The Comprehensive Reproductive Health in Crises (CRHC) Programme is a major new initiative that will catalyse change in how reproductive health (RH) is addressed within relief organisations, field services & global decision making. Adapted from the source document.

In pursuit of the good project -- Beneficiaries as a commodity -- The logframe and the history of the market for projects -- The history of humanitarian authority and the divisions of the humanitarian field -- The reform of humanitarianism -- What about human rights? -- Conclusion.

This article analyses the gender implications that emerged through welfare support for the war‐bereaved in post‐Asia‐Pacific War Japan. It follows the foundation, activities and dissolution of the Federation of Bereaved War Victims, the first support group for the war‐bereaved that initially began as an organisation for military widows. After its dissolution, members of the Federation went on to create two separate groups – the Victims' Federation and Widows' Federation – whose members, scope and objectives presented stark gendered divisions. By examining this divide, and by analysing the earlier histories of the organisations, this article explores the relationships among gender, military, death and bereavement, and post‐war relief. The article pays particular attention to the tensions and negotiations among various interest groups, including military widows, women widowed from other causes, feminist activists, male lawmakers, bereaved fathers and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. I place the dissolution of the Federation in its social and political contexts and analyse its relationship to the contemporaneous discussions on female citizenship. In particular, I focus on two areas mobilised by Japanese feminist activists since the early twentieth century: suffrage and motherhood. The short history of the Federation provides a means to examine the reconfiguration of the connection between gender and citizenship during the demilitarisation and democratisation processes that occurred in occupied Japan.

This book looks at the development practices of International Non-Governmental Organisations of CONCERN from Ireland, OXFAM from the United Kingdom, and REDD BARNA (Save the Children) from Norway in Ethiopia. Micro level in-depth empirical data on the activities of these northern NGOs are collected and analysed. Following the 1984/85 famine and drought in Ethiopia, international NGOs brought relief aid to Ethiopia and took part in its distribution as well. As the relief activities declined some NGOs moved into rehabilitation and later into development work with the intention of addressing the root cause of the problems, i.e. rural poverty. The book also examines NGOs not only as 'micro-operators' but also as social forces that influence macro development policies that affect the poor in a participatory and sustainable way. - Contents: NGOs in development - NGOs as social forces - Influence on macro development policies.