Tag Archives : disaster management

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]

Thousands of refugees are arriving in Kolkata from Sunderbans islands. Aila cyclone and flooding has washed away their homes and interior islands have received absolutely no relief from the government and other agencies. There is acute shortage of drinking water and food. Areas have no electricity. Never before people of Sunderbans have taken such a [...]

How often does one come across relief camps post-disasters and wish something better was done for the hapless victims? Disasters may be man-made or nature’s fury, but managing post-disaster situations, particularly shelters, is in human hands, and can be improved a great deal with some innovation besides spot thinking. The demand for temporary shelters [...]

Bush survived the controversy over the War on Terror that he practically authored. He just might be surviving the US financial crisis that imploded during his administration. These huge debacles that tried the most unpopular president of the US might be water under the bridge for Bush when he moves back to walking his horses on his Texas ranch, after [...]