Category: Politics
Created by: quietschie
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English (EN) WASH is an acronym (used as noun by aid workers) and stands for water supply, sanitation and hygiene. WASH programs promote good personal and environmental hygiene in order to protect health.
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are those who have left their residence by reasons of real or imagined danger but, unlike refugees, have not crossed any international borders.
In humanitarian response, protection refers to the role of agencies in ensuring respect for and fulfilment of the rights articulated in the Humanitarian Charter, including access to assistance.
In a humanitarian context, grants are non-repayable funds disbursed by government departments, corporations, foundations or trusts, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity. In order ...
In humanitarian settings and within the UNHCR mandate, a refugee is defined as: any person who is outside his/her country of origin and who is unwilling or unable to return there or to avail ...
Family tracing and reunification are services provided by humanitarian organizations with the scope of helping victims of family separations during large scale population movements and ...
Selective feeding programmes provide extra food for the malnourished and at-risk groups in addition to the general ration.
