Building disaster recovery institutions through south-south policy transfer : comparative case study of Indonesia and Haiti / / Ralph Myers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787703603321
• Autore: Myers Ralph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-95489-655-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (100 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.348
• Soggetti: Disaster relief - Louisiana
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Building Disaster Recovery Institutions through South-South Policy Transfer; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; ABSTRACT; GLOSSARY; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. PROBLEM STATEMENT AND RESEARCH QUESTION; 1.2. OBJECTIVES; 1.3. RESEARCH DESIGN; 1.4. UTILITY; 2. LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; 2.1. LITERATURE REVIEW: ACHIEVING GREATER QUALITY & ACCOUNTABILITY; 2.2. STUDYING POLICY TRANSFER USING CONCEPTUAL/ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS; 3. METHODOLOGY; 3.1. COMPARATIVE METHOD; 3.2. RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY; 3.2. CASE SELECTION; 3.3. CONCLUSION; 4. POLICY TRANSFER: A CONCEPTUAL/ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK4.1. POLICY TRANSFER AS A DEPENDENT VARIABLE; 4.2. SUPPORTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; 4.3. POLICY TRANSFER AS AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; 4.4. CONCLUSION; 5. THIRD VARIABLES: DISASTER IMPACT AND POLITICAL CONTEXT; 5.1. IMPACT OF DISASTER: INDONESIA; 5.2. IMPACT OF DISASTER: HAITI; 5.3. POLITICAL CONTEXT: INDONESIA; 5.4. POLITICAL CONTEXT: HAITI; 5.5. CONCLUSION; 6. POLICY TRANSFER - COMPARING THE BRR AND IHRC; 6.1. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND MANDATE: BRR; 6.2. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND MANDATE: IHRC; 6.3. FUNDING MECHANISMS: BRR6.4. FUNDING MECHANISMS: IHRC; 6.5. ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES: BRR; 6.6. ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES: IHRC; 6.7. ACTIVITY PRIORITISATION: BRR; 6.8. ACTIVITY ; PRIORITISATION: IHRC; 6.9. CONCLUSION; 7. ANALYSIS: POLICY TRANSFER AS TWO VARIABLE TYPES; 7.1. POLICY TRANSFER AS A DEPENDENT VARIABLE; 7.2. POLICY TRANSFER AS AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; 8. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS; 8.1. CONCLUDING STEP BY STEP; 8.2. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH; REFERENCES
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the humanitarian response to the 1994 Rwanda genocide, there has been a growing body of literature on quality and accountability in humanitarian action. One of the most recent trends has been a focus on 'humanitarian cooperation' between the governments of disaster affected countries and other humanitarian actors. The research presented in this book builds on this trend by comparing two governmental recovery agencies, namely the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) and the Aceh Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency (BRR). Through a review of the li