The Humanitarian Emergency Response Review is due to report shortly. The review process was launched in summer last year; Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon will lead a taskforce of humanitarian experts from inside and outside government to review all aspects of how the UK Government responds to disasters and works with the international community to speed up the delivery of aid. [...]
Why that figure? Its very roughly the amount of aid we have given to India in the last 10 years, the 10 year period counting back from 2010/2011 will be more like £2.2 billion but for the sake of convenience lets stick with the nice round number. We can also ignore accumulated inflation and other factors, £2billion it is then [...]
Whilst looking at various sources for the last post in the FDR series, one story struck me as very interesting, enough to warrant a further look. This is absolutely not intended as a criticism because the US response to the Haiti earthquake has been nothing less than stunning, even more so when compared to the UK armed forces, despite our [...]
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