Targeting and distribution in complex emergencies: Participatory management of humanitarian food assistance

Maxwell, Daniel; Young, Helen; Jaspars, Susanne; Frize, Jacqueline; Burns, John D.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2011.03.010

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“…Proceedings from 2 sponsored symposia published in that journal did focus on policy and program levels of analysis (119,120). A search of empirical papers in Food Policy (restricted to papers with "nutrition" occurring in any field) during the same period yielded 130 papers, 6 of which approximated a Mode 2 Frontier focus (121)(122)(123)(124)(125)(126). A search of all titles in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior during that same period yielded several descriptive papers on the efforts, accomplishments, challenges, etc., of schools, food service staff, retail food outlets, and other community entities attempting to change practices and food/activity environments (127)(128)(129).…”

Section: Nutrition Policymentioning

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Expanding the Frontiers of Population Nutrition Research: New Questions, New Methods, and New Approaches

Pelletier

Porter

Aarons

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Advances in Nutrition

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Nutrition research, ranging from molecular to population levels and all points along this spectrum, is exploring new frontiers as new technologies and societal changes create new possibilities and demands. This paper defines a set of frontiers at the population level that are being created by the increased societal recognition of the importance of nutrition; its connection to urgent health, social, and environmental problems; and the need for effective and sustainable solutions at the population level. The frontiers are defined in terms of why, what, who, and how we study at the population level and the disciplinary foundations for that research. The paper provides illustrations of research along some of these frontiers, an overarching framework for population nutrition research, and access to some of the literature from outside of nutrition that can enhance the intellectual coherence, practical utility, and societal benefit of population nutrition research. The frontiers defined in this paper build on earlier forward-looking efforts by the American Society for Nutrition and extend these efforts in significant ways. The American Society for Nutrition and its members can play pivotal roles in advancing these frontiers by addressing a number of well-recognized challenges associated with transdisciplinary and engaged research.

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Section: Nutrition Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Expanding the Frontiers of Population Nutrition Research: New Questions, New Methods, and New Approaches

Pelletier

Porter

Aarons

et al. 2013

Advances in Nutrition

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“…Civil society and practitioner rhetoric tends to link participatory communicative models with technological advances, framed in normative terms that are highly critical of traditional, less participatory approaches in the humanitarian and development sectors (Chao 2014). This normative perspective is also assumed by several scholars (Kaiser 2000;Abraham 2011;Maxwell et al 2011;Gillman 2014;Özdamar and Ertem 2015;Madianou et al 2016), and participatory approaches to risk communication have been argued to improve outcomes and efficiency. Odugleh-Kolev (2014) argues that a structural and interactive understanding of risk communication is particularly important in pandemic response, where coordinated, functional, and systemic communication is implied in activities such as assessing transmission risk and mapping contagion patterns in rural communities (243).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Simultaneously, the participatory ethos of new technology encourages humanitarian organizations and government authorities alike to deliberately engage affected communities in the design, implementation and evaluation of humanitarian response (Kaiser 2000;Maxwell et al 2011;Gillman 2014;Özdamar and Ertem 2015), yet poses a number of non-trivial hurdles to meaningful engagement. Here too, technical capacities tend to be weakest with national governments, necessitating partnership with international organizations to invest in participatory interventions.…”

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The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency

Wilson

Jumbert

2018

Int J Humanitarian Action

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Digital communication technologies play an increasingly prominent role in humanitarian operations and in response to international pandemics specifically. A burgeoning body of scholarship on the topic displays high expectations for such tools to increase the efficiency of pandemic response. This article reviews empirical uses of communications technology in humanitarian and pandemic response, and the 2014 Ebola response in particular, in order to propose a three-part conceptual model for the new informatics of pandemic response. This model distinguishes between the use of digital communication tools for diagnostic, risk communication, and coordination activities and highlights how the influx of novel actors and tendencies towards digital and operational convergence risks focusing humanitarian action and decision-making outside national authorities' spheres of influence in pandemic response. This risk exacerbates a fundamental tension between the humanitarian promise of new technologies and the fundamental norm that international humanitarian response should complement and give primacy to the role of national authorities when possible. The article closes with recommendations for ensuring the inclusion of roles and agency for national authorities in technology-supported communication processes for pandemic response.

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“…Second, the emergency nature of humanitarian interventions may require quick beneficiary identification processes. Finally, access, security, and limited staff capacity in the context of an emergency may make some targeting choices unfeasible or less appropriate (Maxwell, Young, Jaspars, Frize, & Burns, 2011). The understanding is limited on how development and humanitarian targeting approaches compare, their potential synergies, and how they could be integrated as part of an ASP system.…”

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How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? Evidence from Humanitarian and Development Approaches in Niger

Schnitzer

2019

The Journal of Development Studies

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The methods used to identify the beneficiaries of programmes aiming to address persistent poverty and shocks are subject to frequent policy debates. Relying on panel data from Niger, this report simulates the performance of various targeting methods that are widely used by development and humanitarian actors. The methods include proxy-means testing (PMT), household economy analysis (HEA), geographical targeting, and combined methods. Results show that PMT performs more effectively in identifying persistently poor households, while HEA shows superior performance in identifying transiently food insecure households. Geographical targeting is particularly efficient in responding to food crises, which tend to be largely covariate. Combinations of geographical, PMT, and HEA approaches may be used as part of an efficient and scalable adaptive social protection system. Results motivate the consolidation of data across programmes, which can support the application of alternative targeting methods tailored to programme-specific objectives.

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Targeting and distribution in complex emergencies: Participatory management of humanitarian food assistance

Cited by 14 publications

References 3 publications

Expanding the Frontiers of Population Nutrition Research: New Questions, New Methods, and New Approaches

Expanding the Frontiers of Population Nutrition Research: New Questions, New Methods, and New Approaches

The new informatics of pandemic response: humanitarian technology, efficiency, and the subtle retreat of national agency

How to Target Households in Adaptive Social Protection Systems? Evidence from Humanitarian and Development Approaches in Niger

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