Development assistance on the brink

Thérien, Jean‐Philippe; Lloyd, Carolyn

doi:10.1080/01436590013206

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“…An extensive humanitarian relief community has developed since the second world war (Therien and Lloyd, 2000). It includes multilateral agencies such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the World Food Programme (WFP) [1] which is supported entirely by voluntary contributions, mainly by governments both in cash and in kind, as well as a wide range of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) both national and international.…”

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Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

Oloruntoba

Gray

2006

Supply Chain Management: An International Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the humanitarian aid supply chain and discuss the extent to which certain business supply chain concepts, particularly supply chain agility, are relevant to humanitarian aid. Design/methodology/approach -The paper identifies elements of good practice in conventional business supply chains and applies them to the humanitarian aid supply chain, making use of published practice-based literature and web sites associated with humanitarian aid. Particular emphasis is placed on the concept of "agility" in supply chain management. A model of an agile supply chain for humanitarian aid is developed. Findings -Humanitarian supply chains have similarities with business supply chains, but there are significant differences. Many humanitarian supply chains have a short and unstable existence with an inadequate link between emergency aid and longer-term developmental aid. Unlike many business supply chains, typical emergency aid appeals assign inventory to a particular destination at the supply chain source. Practical implications -This research note is a starting-point for empirical studies to test the agile humanitarian supply chain model. Originality/value -This paper seeks to integrate humanitarian aid practice with concepts in the academic supply chain literature. In particular, proposes that humanitarian donors need convincing of the value of supply chain processes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

Oloruntoba

Gray

2006

Supply Chain Management: An International Journal

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350

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“…Most likely it is because, in all probability, they will be the ones (Thérien et al, 2000;Winters, 2010) may explain why developed countries seem to prefer to invest in measures for capacity-building (such as training, technology transfers, and R&D cooperation) rather than on direct monetary transfers. On the other hand, the preference of developing nations for financial transfers may be understood in terms of their perceptions that they are entitled to such disbursements since they were not responsible for creating the environmental problems in the first place.…”

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The influence of Treaty Design on the participation of Developing and Developed Nations in International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

Seelarbokus¹

2014

Afr. J. Pol. Sci. Int. Relat.

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It is an observed fact that developing and developed countries participate in InternationalEnvironmental Agreements (IEAs) to different levels. Do IEA provisions exert differential levels of influence on the participation of developing and developed countries? This paper relies on multivariate regression analysis to examine the relationship between key IEA provisions and the participation of developing and developed countries in thirty-one global IEAs. The texts of the selected IEAs are analyzed and coded for the presence (or absence) of key provisions pertaining to, inter alia, strength, flexibility, transparency, and participation incentives such as financial and technology transfers. Results of the analysis show that strong binding provisions within IEAs tend to detract both the developing and developed countries from participation. On the other hand, provisions supporting greater flexibility (e.g. clauses promoting dispute resolution through negotiations first) or greater transparency (e.g. through NGO observership or reporting requirements) seem to be attractive to both developing and developed countries. These findings suggest that effective international environmental cooperation cannot be compelled; rather, it needs to be made attractive through the right mix between enforcement mechanisms and flexibility clauses, as well as through appealing participation incentives.

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“…The decreasing national interests are also clearly manifested in the reductions of the common European aid programme. This can hardly be seen in isolation from other developments in the 1990s, where scepticism increased among donors as regards the effectiveness of aid to promote social and economic development in Africa, which has been perceived as a particularly difficult case (Riddel, 1999;Walle, 1999;Thérien and Lloyd, 2000).…”

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EU development cooperation: From model to symbol

Arts¹,

Dickson²

2004

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Development assistance on the brink

Cited by 25 publications

References 23 publications

Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

The influence of Treaty Design on the participation of Developing and Developed Nations in International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

EU development cooperation: From model to symbol

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