Aid

How can livelihoods be supported in the midst of humanitarian crisis?

For those who rely on humanitarian assistance for long periods, aid must be provided so that displaced persons can garner skills, training and economic opportunities in order to establish sustainable livelihoods. This field manual has been developed in an attempt to provide usable information and tools for the design and implementation of effective livelihood programmes.

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Guidelines on mental and psychological support in emergency settings: ( Inter-Agency Standing Committee , 2007); Armed conflicts and natural disasters cause significant psychological and social suffering to affected populations. The psychological and social impacts of emergencies may be acute in short term, b...
Guidance on impact evaluation: ( F. Leeuw;J. Vaessen / Network of Networks on Impact Evaluation , 2009); Many development interventions appear to leave no trace of sustained positive change after they have been terminated and it is hard to deternine the extent to which interventions are making a diffe...
Joint donor team for south Sudan: progress in challenging aid environment: ( J. Bennett;J. Kluyskens;J. Morton / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2009); Following the signing of Sudan’s peace agreement in 2005, the governments of three EU states established a Joint Donor Team (JDT) for south Sudan. The team's mission was to:...
How can livelihoods be supported in the midst of humanitarian crisis?: ( J.R. Austin (ed);T. Morris / Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children , 2009); Although necessary, emergency relief can only fulfil a limited role. For those that are forced to rely on humanitarian assistance for long periods aid must be provided for displaced persons to garn...
Can the new aid modalities help the poorest?: ( A. Shepherd;L. Cabral / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008); This paper analyses three important elements of contemporary aid relations in-low income countries: poverty reduction strategies (PRSs), sector-wide approaches (SWAps) and general budget support (G...
2009 UN report on disaster risk reduction: assessing the challenge: ( PreventionWeb , 2009); There is a growing trend towards greater and more catastrophic natural disasters. Of the ten disasters with the highest death tolls since 1975, half have occurred in the five year period betwe...
The disempowering nature of aid to Palestine: ( S. Hever / The Alternative Information Centre , 2008); Years of bloody conflict have weakened both Israeli and Palestinian economies, though the latter has suffered the brunt of the decline. Because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict plays a central role in...
How Norway is engaged in conflict resolution and peace-building efforts in Africa: ( Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries , 2008); Although Norway’s relations with sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally been linked to development assistance and missionary work, its cooperation is continually being expanded into other areas. ...
Can budget support be a valuable tool for aid effectiveness?: ( InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH InWEnt - Capacity Building , 2009); General Budget Support (GBS) has emerged as a 'progressive' mode of development country assistance. Such a process accentuates the importance of partnership and ownership – rather t...
Practical tools for field based humanitarian workers: ( L. Richardson;G. Price / AID All in Diary - a practical tool for field based humanitarian workers , 2009); The immediate pressures of working in a disasters environment mean that humanitarian workers can struggle to access the most relevant information needed for the situation in which they are working....