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investigates what international placements of healthcare employees
in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy
of its national health system. The authors present empirical data
collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on
reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning
and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting
as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop
a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and
experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light
on the role that international placements play as part of
continuing professional development both in the UK and in other
sending countries.
Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss, death,
and destruction. Many victims died in disasters. These are the
stories of how survivors live to strike back. Survivors were
trapped, but then set free when they were rescued! Some are
man-made disasters, while others are natural disasters. The
survivors of disasters include child abuse victims, domestic
violence survivors, battered wives, war veterans, orphans, riots
survivors, and victims of the terrorist attacks. These survivors
live to tell the tale after seeing a natural disaster such as
deadly storms.
For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run
a refugee camp on their family farm not far from Mogadishu which
has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and
children in urgent need of medical attention. As Islamist militia
groups have been battling for control of the country creating one
of the most dire human rights crises in the world, Dr. Abdi's camp
is a beacon of hope for the Somalis, most of whom have no proper
access to health care. She was recently held hostage by a militant
groups who threatened her life and told her that because she's a
woman she has no right to run the camp. She refused to leave. This
is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic
country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of
desperate people, it's also an inspiring story of a divorced woman
and her two daughters, bound together on a mission to rehabilitate
a country.
This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to
torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress
in food production, logistics, information dissemination and relief
work. Contemporary famines are inherently political, and so the
interesting question is not how famines can be prevented, but why
they are allowed to develop in the first place; only by
understanding the latter, is there hope to eradicate major famines.
The Brief assesses the various analytical approaches to the
understanding of famine, from the classical approaches inspired by
Thomas Malthus to the newer economic approaches based on Amartya
Sen. While all approaches contribute with important insights on
famine dynamics, they also struggle to capture the political
dimension of contemporary famines. The Brief develops a political
approach capable of addressing this important but messy political
dimension of contemporary famines. The approach builds on
principles of humanitarian accountability (the moral responsibility
to alleviate suffering from famine) as well as political
accountability (the interests and power relations involved in
famine outcomes).
This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on
development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national
populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of
the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally.
Next, it gives a historical-political overview of development aid
in the post WW-II era and discusses the dominant Washington
Consensus doctrine and its failure. It then provides a critique of
the Official Development Assistance (ODA) discourse and reviews the
political economy of ODA, the discourse, and the conditionalities
that are barriers to socio-economic development. The final chapters
explore the question of Trumponomics as an alternative to the
global neoliberal ODA, and the potential impact of Trumponomics' on
ODA. The book concludes with thoughts on the potential future
directions for ODA within the 'ideals' of Trumponomics and national
populism.
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