Humanitarian Intelligence (eBook)

A Practitioner's Guide to Crisis Analysis and Project Design

Andrej Zwitter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
248 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
9781442249493 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is the first to provide an overview and a practical guide to the tools and methods of data gathering and assessment, standards of measurement in humanitarian action, interpretation strategies, and operational planning tools. Short hypothetical cases and practical examples illustrate and explain the tools detailed in each chapter.

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Humanitarian aid workers are faced with many challenges, from possible terrorist attacks to dealing with difficult stakeholders and securing operational space free from violence. To do their work properly and safely, they need effective intelligence. Humanitarian intelligence refers to the use of investigative and analytical techniques in service of rapid and continuous assessment, project and program development, impact evaluation, and learning. It focuses just as much on how to use early warning indicators to assess risks, evaluate trends, and write early warning analyses as it does provide guidance on the operational design of humanitarian relief efforts. Further, operational security depends on the intelligence analysis. Unlike governments, NGOs' resources are very limited. Humanitarian intelligence officers hardly have any literature detailing useful current standards and important tools for their analysis needs. Humanitarian Intelligence is the first to provide an overview and a practical guide to the tools and methods of data gathering and assessment, standards of measurement in humanitarian action, interpretation strategies, and operational planning tools. Short hypothetical cases and practical examples illustrate and explain the tools detailed in each chapter.Additional resources including case studies and teaching tools are available online at http://humanitarianintelligence.net .

Autor

Andrej Zwitter is professor of international relations and program coordinator of the Humanitarian Action Master’s Program specialization on Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of TablesList of Tools and Step-by-Step Guides IntroductionChapter 1. What is Humanitarian Intelligence?Chapter 2. Humanitarian Intelligence in the Project Cycle Management Chapter 3. Information Collection, Reliability and Probability Chapter 4. Understanding Complex Contexts Chapter 5. Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design Framework (H-AID): Comprehensive Chapter 6. Understanding Actors and their Impact Chapter 7. Social Network Analysis and Interpretation (SNA) Chapter 8. Humanitarian Analysis and Intervention Design Framework (H-AID): Trend Factors Analysis Chapter 9. Operational Planning and Forecasting Conclusion: Recapitulating the Humanitarian Intelligence CycleAppendices1. Sample LogFrame for a Rice Production Project 2. Context Dimensions Measurements and Indicators3. Context Dimensions and Human Rights Correspondence 4. H-AID Trend Calculation 5. Agency Needs Form for Office Opening 6. Planning Check-List for Office Closure Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Security and Professional Intelligence Education Series
• Zusatzinfo: 95 Illustrations including: - 45 Black & White Illustrations; - 26 Tables; - 24 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Human Rights • Intelligence & Espionage • Political Science
• ISBN-13: 9781442249493 / 9781442249493