With the notable exception of international humanitarian organisations, the 'tri-sector partnership model' promoted by the corporate sector and multilateral development agencies thus draws from the same categories of actors that define the core elements of the formal health sector in a resource curse environment.
With limited exceptions for humanitarian projects, the import of construction materials is not permitted.
So Mr. Olmert is reluctant even to countenance the possibility of humanitarian exceptions, as the Clinton administration did at Camp David.
Israel has restricted movement in and out of Gaza, where only limited health care is available, since the militant Islamic group Hamas took over last June, but says it makes exceptions for humanitarian cases daily.
The most urgent regional transformation is not the Middle East, where an Arab Spring has, with the exception of Tunisia, become a humanitarian nightmare, but Ukraine, where Russian President Vladimir Putin has already overseen the redrawing of the European map and may be agitating for more.
With the exception of one country, every major supplier of humanitarian food aid enjoys the flexibility to use whatever form of aid works best — they can send food, buy food in the affected region, or just provide cash or vouchers.
And while it is "a fair policy question" to ask whether Congress's definition of humanitarian aid is overly broad, he said, the exception has helped the United States argue that it opposes Iran's government, not its people.
Some act out of humanitarian concern.
The reporting is purely of humanitarian efforts.
It was a kind of humanitarian hubris.
