Noisy emergencies
An embarrassment of riches 2
The media and noisy emergencies 5
The media and Mozambique: a double-edged sword 8
The East Timor emergency response 8
Tajikistan: the next-door neighbour 11
The Mother Teresa society and the war in Kosovo 14
Practice notes
Paying the ultimate price: an analysis of aid-worker fatalities 15
Weighing up the risks in aid work 17
Accountability and quality: uncomfortable bedfellows? 19
Why a trust fund won’t work in Afghanistan 22
Developmental programming in the midst of war: a case study from southern Sudan 24
Nutritional interventions in ‘open situations’: lessons from north-western Sudan 26
Policy notes
New technologies, new challenges: information management, coordination and agency independence 29
The French humanitarian system: reform, but how much real change? 31
Legislating for humanitarian aid 33
Endpiece
The compartmentalisation of humanitarian action 36
