Blood and Milk » Humanitarian response

It’s well known at this point that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti. The worst cholera outbreak in recent global health records, in a country that hadn’t seen cholera in its record...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2017/03/16/the-uns-shame-and-haitis-suffering/

  These aren’t predictions, exactly, or New Year’s wishes. More like positive signs I am hoping will occur. Clues that we’re getting our act together as an international system. The good ...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/12/29/humanitarian-response-complexity-and-uhc-my-high-hopes-for-2014/

Climate change is going to affect life on earth in ways we can’t even begin to understand yet, but the first impact is the one we’re seeing: extreme weather events. Hurricane Sandy last year,...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/11/29/gratitude-in-a-time-of-climate-change/

Typhoon Haiyan from space Books – I have a review copy of Ben Ramalingan’s new book, Aid on the Edge of Chaos. I am very, very excited to read it. Earlier this summer, I read Reinventing Phi...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/11/16/mrsa-typhoon-usaid/

I have come to terms with the fact that I write terrible book reviews. Instead of a review, I present an interview with J, author of Missionary, Mercenary, Mystic, Misfit. In case you haven’t ...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2013/06/30/missionary-mercenary-mystic-misfit-an-interview-with-the-author/

A couple of people have pointed out that my approach to Alzheimer’s, as I outlined in my TED talk, looks an awful lot like disaster preparedness. That’s not by accident. My job shapes my pers...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2012/07/16/dementia-and-other-disasters/

I didn’t mean to read this book. I am in the middle of another book I’m reading for review – Ed Carr’s Delivering Development (which I am really enjoying, but it’s new enough to me that...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2012/02/07/book-review-damned-nations-by-samantha-nutt/

Adrienne had some great questions in the comments on my last post; I thought they deserved a longer response than another comment would permit. 1) What happens when a relief agency realizes that ...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2008/05/13/relief-and-development-part-two/

The simplest breakdown goes like this: Humanitarian relief programs are focused on rapid start-up, and rapid impact. Implementers of humanitarian programs need to gear up as fast as possible, and...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2008/05/12/whats-the-difference-between-relief-and-development-programs/

Online Exchange : The frustrations of CERF. Toby Porter on how predictable financing has turned into less predictable funds for agencies on the ground.: “One could make a list of a hundred diff...

http://bloodandmilk.org/2007/03/22/online-exchange-the-frustrations-of-cerf-toby-porter-on-how-predictable-financing-has-turned-into-less-predictable-funds-for-agencies-on-the-ground/