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I snagged a free copy of a recent volume published by Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders). Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience is a series of case studies from a range of humanitarian contexts, combined with a few essays that take broader looks at how MSF’s approach has evolved over the years. The value of this book stems from the willingness of current and former MSF leaders to take a critical look at how they’ve dealt with incredibly difficult situations over the years. Here’s the meta-lesson I took away from it all: Admitting failure is for sissies. Much of the complexity discussed in the book arises from the politics of delivering aid.
Even logistics gets political. Hiring a car in Somalia results in a series of compromises. If getting a car is that hard, imagine what happens when you start providing medical care. (Emphasis mine.) The closing essays put the case studies in a broader framework. These tensions exist throughout the case studies. Megaslumming - Home. Player omroep.nl. Player omroep.nl. Soapbox Event. Half The Sky. Gaza Sderot - Life in spite of everything - Time. Practical Action - technology challenging poverty - Practical Action. Latin America In Peru and Bolivia, we help communities set up small-scale technological solutions in remote areas where there is no access to basic services, including electricity, heating, clean water and sanitation.
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