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Humanitarian Emergencies
The United Nations defines a complex humanitarian emergency (CHE) as a humanitarian crisis in a country, region, or society where there is total or substantial breakdown of authority ensuing from internal or external conflict and which necessitates an international response that goes beyond the mandate or capacity of any single or ongoing UN country program. Such emergencies necessitate customized, focused, and practical field reactions to be structured within short time frames, frequently under difficult convenience, security, and climate circumstances. Over the years, operational efficiency in the field of humanitarian aid has increased because of experience and research carried out during these emergencies (Complex Humanitarian Emergency Program, 2012).
Humanitarian assistance is the aid to an affected population, which serves as its primary purpose to save lives and alleviate suffering of a crisis-affected population. Humanitarian assistance must be offered in accordance with the basic humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, and neutrality....
The preponderance of assistance is in keeping with the recovery and treatment of basic public health infrastructure required both by civilian and military-aid providers under mandates of the international humanitarian law. These humanitarian aid missions have, in the recent past, been mainly focused on refugee and internally displaced populations (IDPs), most frequently in rural settings (Complex Humanitarian Emergency Program, 2012).
Example
In 2011 aid agencies launched multimillion dollar appeal to address a mounting humanitarian emergency in east Africa, where severe drought and high food prices had left 10 million people requiring assistance. Two consecutive failed rainy seasons in 12 months led to the driest year since 1951 in regions such as Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda. Hunger levels jumped sharply, with rates of severe malnutrition rising as high as five times the emergency threshold. The drought also decimated livestock and cereal prices soared (Rice, 2011).
Oxfam launched its biggest ever appeal for Africa, seeking 50 million to…
References
Complex humanitarian emergency program. (2012). Retrieved from http://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/education-training/complex-humanitarian-emergency-program
Rice, X. (2011). Drought in east Africa prompts calls to address humanitarian emergency.
Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/04/drought-east-africa-humanitarian-emergency
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