The difficulties of getting aid and medical supplies to besieged areas is acute in Aleppo, where UN agencies are preparing to use the ceasefire to make deliveries.
Meanwhile the United Nations has released Food Force, a game that helps people understand the difficulties of dispensing aid to war zones.
As hundreds of thousands of survivors of Cyclone Nargis wait for relief supplies amongst debris and dead bodies, western politicians and commentators seem to be mostly concerned with moralising over the difficulties of delivering aid.
Other GOP senators offered similar thoughts about the difficulties of providing aid to Puerto Rico, arguing that its lack of infrastructure made FEMA's job tougher than usual.
One factor behind the cost of humanitarian aid in 2014, Bennett said, was the difficulty of getting aid into conflict zones where political forces obstruct access, like Syria and South Sudan.
Responding to criticism on Sept. 29 that aid from the United States was arriving in Puerto Rico too slowly, President Donald Trump chalked it up to the logistical difficulty of getting aid to an island "surrounded by water.
The difficulty of getting aid to the remote region exacerbates the effects.
But when the group showed up at a homeless camp, hundreds rushed the vehicles carrying the tents, desperate for shelter, illustrating the difficulty of delivering aid.
Stressing the difficulty of getting aid across frontlines in a climate where humanitarians frequently had to negotiate safe passage with armed groups, Maurer said: "Both sides have numerous difficulties in accepting that humanitarian assistance is going to the other side".
"If Ortega comes to power, that would provoke a closing of aid and investment, difficulties with exports, visas and family remittances," he said.
