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This report presents the rationale for and design of a city
government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines. Insurance
pools help governments enhance their financial preparedness for
disasters, focusing on the provision of rapid post-disaster
financing for early recovery. The Philippine City Disaster
Insurance Pool was developed under the guidance of the Department
of Finance as part of the 2015 Disaster Risk Financing and
Insurance Strategy. It utilizes a parametric insurance structure,
basing payouts on the occurrence of earthquakes and typhoons
according to their physical features, rather than actual losses.
Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of
the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal
state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this
book explores the "associational revolution" in post-socialist,
post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country's "transition"
through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography
unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed
in the democracy-promotion project.
This 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 emergency. This second edition maintains the
practical content of the first but has been revised and updated to
reflect developments in humanitarian relief in recent years. The
combination of "hard" topics, such as water and sanitation, and
"soft" topics, such as managerial skills and personal
effectiveness, has been retained from the original edition and the
book expanded to include two new chapters on security and
telecommunications. The new second edition will be available both
as a paperback book, and a hardwearing field edition with pvc cover
and handy CD-ROM included for portability. "Engineering in
Emergencies" was developed in collaboration with the agency RedR -
Engineers for Disaster Relief
This inspiring book looks at the theory and practice of China's
foreign aid in Africa, especially in the area of healthcare in
Uganda. It provides insights into how recipient countries and
regions are selected, and describes in detail how the men and women
working in the frontlines deliver aid. Information from past
research, participant observations, interviews and other fieldwork
are brought together to form a comprehensive picture of how Chinese
development aid for health to Uganda has evolved over three
decades, how it is carried out now, and the significance of such
milestones as the building of the China-Uganda Friendship Hospital.
The author also compares and contrasts China's foreign aid with
that from other countries.
Social work practice with refugees and immigrants requires
specialized knowledge of these populations, and specialized
adaptations and applications of mainstream services and
interventions. Because they are often confronted with cultural,
linguistic, political, and socioeconomic barriers, these groups are
especially vulnerable to psychological problems. Among these
problems are anxiety, depression, alienation, grief, even
post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as biological concerns
stemming from inadequate or underutilized medical services. Best
Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants is the first
book to offer a comprehensive guide to social work with
foreign-born clients that evaluates many different strategies in
light of their methodological strengths and weaknesses.
Part I sets forth the context for empirically based service
approaches to such clients by describing the nature of these
populations, relevant policies designed to assist them, and service
delivery systems. Part II addresses specific problem areas common
to refugees and immigrants and evaluates a variety of assessment
and intervention techniques for each area. Maintaining a rigorous
empirical and broadly pan-cultural approach throughout, Miriam
Potocky-Tripodi seeks to identify the most practical, "best
practices" to meet the various and pressing needs of uprooted
peoples.
This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation.
Increasing amounts of aid are used to help developing countries
adapt to climate change. The authors seek to discover how this aid
is distributed and what constitutes the patterns of adaptation-aid
giving. Does it help vulnerable countries, as donors promise, or
does it help donors achieve economic and political gains? Set
against the backdrop of international climate change negotiations
and the aid allocation literature, Betzold and Weiler's empirical
analysis proceeds in three steps: firstly they assess adaptation
aid as reported by the OECD, then statistically examine patterns in
adaptation aid allocation, and finally qualitatively investigate
adaptation aid in three large climate donors: Germany, Sweden and
the United Kingdom. With its mixed-method research design and
comprehensive data, this work provides a unique, state-of-the-art
analysis of adaptation aid as a new stream of development aid.
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