ABSTRACT
Humanitarian and development-driven projects and programmes deal with human-made disasters such as conŒicts, terrorism, technological hazards and disasters triggered by natural hazards (such as earthquakes, Œoods and droughts) or to solve development needs such as lack of health and sanitation, famine and poverty, illiteracy, lack of human resources qualication and lack of livelihood. This chapter covers humanitarian and development projects that are undertaken in a post-disaster environment or in cases of chronic hunger and poverty. The international community contributes to these areas through the provision of funds, experts, food, medicines, farming and other technological tools, and building materials among other items. All these temporary engagements are projects managed with a varying scale of efciency and effectiveness.
