Humanitarian ethical exit: Development of an ethical response closure tool for Canadian Red Cross

Important challenges remain around planning an ethical, justified, and accountable strategy for transitioning from emergency to long-term planning or closure of programs. Canadian Red Cross (CRC) aims to develop a practical guidance tool for closing humanitarian programs that will combine established operational practices with evidence based ethical considerations. This research will be qualitative in design and will be divided into three phases. In the first phase, existing guidelines from CRC and other available literature will be reviewed, and a workshop will be conducted to understand the needs, strengths, gaps, and challenges. In the second phase, the data from the first phase will be synthesized to develop a preliminary guidance tool. In the third phase, a second workshop will be conducted to get feedback and finalize the guidance tool.

Faculty Supervisor:

Lisa Schwartz;Matthew Hunt

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Partner:

Canadian Red Cross (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

McMaster University

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