Network Structures and Humanitarian Need
| Autor: | Erika Frydenlund, Mackenzie Clark, Jose J. Padilla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling ISBN: 9783030803865 SBP-BRiMS |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-80387-2_21 |
| Popis: | Financial transactions between humanitarian aid donors and recipients form a network that can inform our understanding of how resilient these efforts are collectively. This is particularly critical considering that certain humanitarian “crises” can span years or even decades, leading to donor fatigue in already chronically underfunded situations. We focus on refugee and migrant situations in Greece and Colombia to highlight the disparity between the humanitarian aid networks in responses that have each stretched beyond five years. We observe these financial networks over time to show that they grow through preferential attachment, with large nodes/actors remaining prominent as the years go on. Drawing on the insights from network resilience and foreign aid literature, we highlight the role that private donors play in Greece in providing some robustness to long-term humanitarian responses with no end in sight. Donor diversity appears to play some role in closing the funding gaps, even as need and funding requests for humanitarian response increase over time. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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