Hjälp- & biståndsprogram

This Handbook sets a new agenda for theoretical and practical explorations of citizenship, analysing the main challenges and prospects informing today's world of increased migration and globalization. It will also explore new forms of membership a...

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»En lysande litterär mix.« Haparandabladet Fascinerande skildring om svenska pionjärer i nödhjälp! 1915 skickar Svenska Röda Korset ut friherrinnan Anna Linder och akademikern Sven Hedblom till Ryssland och Sibirien. Uppdraget är att lindra nöden ...

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Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third Edition , continues to serve as the leading comprehensive overview of global emergency management. This edition provides practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive understanding o...

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Global poverty is falling rapidly, but in around fifty failing states, the world's poorest people face a tragedy that is growing inexorably worse. This bottom billion live on less than a dollar a day and while the rest of the world moves steadily ...

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Echoing the words of the Hippocratic Oath, the author challenges aid agency staff to take responsibility for the ways that their assistance affects conflicts. Mary B. Anderson cites the experiences of many aid providers in war-torn societies to sh...

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The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as "the best non-fiction book so far this year" by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.

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NATALIE GERAMI får sin dröm uppfylld och reser med Läkare utan gränser till Sudan för att jobba som logistiker. Väl på plats drabbas hon av de svårigheter som finns med att arbeta i ett fattigt och konfliktdrabbat land, i en patriarkal kultur, i e...

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William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses the problems of extreme poverty and the West's failed attempts to help the poor. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty h...

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In the first book to systematically explore the linkages between war and emergency response, Hoffman and Weiss focus on the profound impact of new wars with non-state actors. The authors trace the evolution of the international humanitarian system...

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Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of developmen...

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Inom folkhögskolan finns en unik inriktning på erfarenhetsutbyte med människor i Syd. Medan internationella utbytesstudier på högskolan huvudsakligen sker i länder på det norra halvklotet, har folkhögskolorna ett vittförgrenat nätverk med folkröre...

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Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid cou...

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Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third Edition, continues to serve as the leading comprehensive overview of global emergency management. This edition provides practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive understanding of...

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A history of the relationship between the United States and foreign countries through its humanitarian interventions in the early 20th century.

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This ABC introduces medicine in areas of conflict or natural disaster responding to the growing number of regions affected. Chapters deal with subjects such as earthquakes and landslides as well as nuclear incidents and biological warfare both nat...

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WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting o...

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Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid cou...

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Engineering in Emergencies is a hugely successful practical handbook for all relief workers involved in giving humanitarian assistance. It provides the information needed to implement an effective engineering response in the aftermath of an emerge...

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An Introduction to Global Health presents a broad yet detailed overview of population health in developing countries. This text carefully examines the factors that influence a community's health status and determine the effectiveness of modern aid...

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Sveriges internationella bistånd 2008 var 28 miljarder kronor. Det är ett nästintill ofattbart belopp. Om man jämför med vad det på sin tid kostade att bygga Öresundsbron, 20 miljarder, blir siffran mer gripbar. Men var tar pengarna vägen? Används...

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När backpackern Anne Louise Hübert hamnar i byn Gombolo på den kenyanska landsbygden blir mötet med fattigdomen ett slag i magen. Människornas utsatthet går inte att skaka av sig - byn är i behov av vatten, barnen behöver mat. Hon avbryter resan o...

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Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programmes aiming to reduce the incidence of water-and sanitation-related diseases, it will also be useful for other relief and development workers, particularly those working in the fields of communit...

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Boken En del av mitt liv tar oss med till fjärran länder, vissa drabbade av krig, andra av hiv och annat mänskligt lidande. Vi möter mödrar, barn och fäder, ofta i deras svåraste ögonblick i livet. Historier som kan visa hur världen på sina ställe...

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Be prepared when real disaster strikes.Everyone believes that they have their life completely under control-until a major disaster hits. In an emergency, the fantasy of control collapses, along with everything that makes our lives normal. Only tho...

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Min väg till Tibet är en självbiografisk berättelse om en ung blind kvinnas enastående insats att hjälpa blinda barn i Tibet till både skolgång och en möjlighet till yrkesutbildning. 27 år gammal reste Sabriye Tenberken ensam till Tibet med ett en...

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The definitive New York Times-bestselling account: "One of the most intriguing and thought-provoking books about shipwreck since A Night to Remember" (The Detroit News). One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world,...

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A collection of 100 short reflections designed to support humanitarian professionals and volunteers.

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Three years ago, award-winning actress Angelina Jolie took on a radically different role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Here are her memoirs from her journeys to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, Cambod...

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At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity. However, food insecurity has persisted. More analysis is hence needed on the link between continuously high levels of global food i...

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Efter tjugo år reste jag tillbaka till Brava, den minsta och mest isolerade ön i Kap Verdes arkipelag, där jag en gång i tiden varit biståndsarbetare och sjuksköterska.När jag och min kollega Mira kom dit i mitten av åttiotalet hade landet nyligen...

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