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Transition to development

Relationship between humanitarian and development aid

Helpdesk Report
  • Róisín Hinds
February 2015

There are various approaches to understanding the relationship between humanitarian and development aid. Some literature points to a specific time period; envisaging the humanitarian-development gap as a temporal period when a humanitarian operation is about to be completed, and development and reconstruction projects are about to begin. Others refer to an institutional gap ...» more

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