Enhancing disaster and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery through evaluation
- Responsibility
- Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Wayne MacDonald, editors.
- Imprint
- San Francisco : Wiley/Jossey-Bass, c2010.
- Physical description
- 117 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series
- New directions for evaluation no. 126.
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Education Library (Cubberley)
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| Call number | Status |
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| LB1028 .N4 NO.126 |
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Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Ritchie, Liesel Ashley.
- MacDonald, Wayne.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Enhancing disaster and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery through evaluation / Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Wayne MacDonald
- Real-time evaluation in humanitarian emergencies / Emery Brusset, John Cosgrave, Wayne MacDonald
- Interagency Health and Nutrition Evaluation initiative in humanitarian crises: moving from single-agency to joint, sectorwide evaluations / Olga Bornemisza ... [et al.]
- Save the Children's approach to emergency evaluation and learning: evolution in policy and practice / Megan Steinke-Chase, Danielle Tranzillo
- Logic modeling as a tool to prepare to evaluate disaster and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery in schools / Kathy Zantal-Wiener, Thomas J. Horwood
- Evolution of a monitoring and evaluation system in disaster recovery: learning from the Katrina Aid Today national case management consortium / Amanda Janis, Kelly M. Stiefel, Celine C. Carbullido
- Evaluating disaster education: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's TsunamiReady community program and risk awareness education efforts in New Hanover County, North Carolina / Jennifer Horan ... [et al.]
- Disasters, crises, and unique populations: suggestions for survey research / Patric R. Spence, Kenneth A. Lachlan
- Evaluation of disaster and emergency management: do no harm, but do better / Liesel Ashley Ritchie, Wayne MacDonald.
- Publisher's Summary
- The first priniciple of humanitarian assistance is "do no harm." The second might be, "do better!" Enter the evaluation of emergency and disaster management. This issue consolidates reflections from evaluation practices in disaster and emergency management. A number of important themes are addressed:OL {list-style:disc}P:{margin-left 60px} * systemic assessment of needs* interagency coordiantion* evaluation of responses in real time* evaluation in international and national jurisdictionsChapters discuss where the evaluation of humanitarian practice and emergency and disaster management currently stands, and where it should be going. Our humanitarian impulse, as in the aftermaths of the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, is an enduring quality. The route from donor to affected population is long and varied. When sudden, unprecedented needs are juxtaposed with expectional levels of charitable responses, the question is whether the responses were good enough. Did supply meet demand? Was it the right thing? Was it done well? Who received support? Was it appropriate? Was the timing right? Can it be improved? All are questions for evaluation. For populations traumatized by disaster, the answers have consequences for protection, for restoration of individual and community efficacy, and ultimately for hope and dignity. This is the 126th volume of the volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Evaluation, an official publication of the American Evaluation Association.
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- Publication date
- 2010
- Series
- New directions for evaluation, 1097-6736 ; no. 126
- ISBN
- 9780470769126
- 0470769122
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