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  • 4 - Allocation

  • Norbert Götz, Södertörns Högskola, Sweden, Georgina Brewis, University College London, Steffen Werther, Södertörns Högskola, Sweden
  • Book:
    Humanitarianism in the Modern World
    Published online:
    17 July 2020
    Print publication:
    23 July 2020, pp 144-218
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    This chapter examines relief operations, showing the difficulties humanitarian workers face from headquarters or encounter in the field as their efforts are either facilitated or constrained by economic, moral, or political considerations. Allocating aid in Ireland, Soviet Russia, and Ethiopia posed major moral, economic, and logistic challenges to the voluntary organisations involved. We identify commonalities over time, moments of change, and present a nuanced understanding of aid. Soup kitchens and camps operating under trying conditions may dominate the public imagination of famine relief, but the reality over two centuries has involved a great deal of routine bureaucratic administration: calculations of dry rations and scientific calorie counting; compiling and checking lists of recipients; mapping networks of distribution points and arranging transport; negotiating with other organisations, governments, and local partners; and monitoring, evaluating, and writing project reports.