Humanitarian aid needs a better evidence base

In the first of a new series of articles on conflict and health Banatvala and Zwi point to a surprising lack of consensus among experienced humanitarian aid agencies about the best way of providing essential emergency provisions (p 101). Their article, on developing the evidence base for humanitarian interventions, claims that despite a vast amount of practical experience, much aid activity remains ad hoc and is not based on best practice. They outline the main research questions that need investigating and say that aid agencies should apply standards of good practice and critically evaluate their own performance as a condition of receiving donor funding.


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Relevant Article

Conflict and health: Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base
Nicholas Banatvala and Anthony B Zwi
BMJ 2000 321: 101-105. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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