Humanitarian assistance
Subtitle: improving U.S.-European cooperation
By: edited by Julia Steets and Daniel S. Hamilton
Contributors: Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Center for Transatlantic Relations; Global Public Policy Institute
Publisher: Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University; Global Public Policy Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Washington, D. C.]; [Berlin, Germany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780980187182
Subjects: European Humanitarian assistance; Assistance humanitaire; International cooperation; Humanitarian assistance; American Humanitarian assistance; [études diverses]; Union européenne; Coopération; Disaster relief
Notes: The contributions to this book were created as part of the project "Raising the Bar: Enhancing Transatlantic Governance of Disaster Relief and Preparedness...The findings of the project are based on the insights of 16 field-level case studies that were commissioned for the project" -- P. vii.

Funded through the European Commissions pilot program on transatlantic methods for handling common global challenges and was also supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-482).

Also available online via the Internet.
Table of contents: title: Emergency reponse and preparedness as a common challenge for the EU and the U.S.  -- Julia Steets; title: From B-Envelopes to the F-Bureau : understanding transatlantic approaches to humanitarian assistance  -- Julia Steets; title: Improving the implementation of lessons learned : gender and local capacity in EU and U.S. humanitarian assistance  -- Andrea Binder; title: Nepal : the European Commission, the U.S. and the implementation of the World Food Program's Gender Policy  -- Mariangela Bizzarri; title: Darfur : action contre la faim, the European Commission, the U.S. and the integration of gender perspectives into humanitarian assistance  -- Domitille Kaufmann; title: Nicaragua : the efforts of CARE, the European Commission and the U.S. to strengthen local capacity  -- Silvia Hidalgo and Soledad Posada; title: Palestine : European Commission and U.S. strategies to work with local capacities  -- Francois Grunewald; title: The will to bridge? European Commission and U.S. approaches to linking relief, rehabilitation, and development  -- Kai Koddenbrock; title: South Sudan : European Commission and U.S. approaches to linking relief, rehabilitation, and development  -- Paul Harvey; title: Democratic Republic of Congo : European Commission and U.S. approaches to linking relief, rehabilitation, and development  -- Kai Koddenbrock; title: Afghanistan : European Commission and U.S. approaches to linking relief, rehabilitation and development  -- Francois Grunewald; title: Chad : European Commission and U.S. approaches to linking relief, rehabilitation and development  -- Francois Grunewald; title: Profits and principles : business engagement in humanitarian assistance  -- Kelly Johnson; title: Humanitarian firms : commercial business engagement in emergency response  -- Abby Stoddard; title: Insuring against disasters : commercial business engagement in emergency preparedness  -- Cornie Shupe; title: Humanitarian assistance and corporate social responsibility  -- Lothar Rieth; title: European Commission and U.S. approaches to business engagement in disaster relief and preparedness  -- Rolando Tomasini; title: Civil-military relations in disaster response  -- Jean-Luc Marret; title: Civil-military relations in Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo : a case study on crisis management in complex emergencies  -- Gudrun van Pottelbergh; title: The next emergency in Kosovo : political and institutional considerations  -- Edward Joseph; title: Response to the 2004 tsunami : an international perspective  -- Howard Roy Williams; title: Civil-military relations after Katrina  -- Jean-Loup Samaan and Laurent Verneuil; title: A joint transatlantic agenda for action in humanitarian assistance -- Julia Steets.