Humanitarian and emergency assistance
- How to minimise the impact of the aid agency expulsions in Sudan
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This paper considers the impacts of the Sudanese government decision to expel a swathe of aid organisations in March 2009. The authors detail a long list of potential consequences for those Sudanese in need of assistance - large areas of the country are now without humanitarian cover - and offer recommendations for the compromised aid community there.
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- How can disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation be integrated?
- ( T. Mitchell;M. van Aalst;P.S. Villanueva / Eldis Community , 2010)
- This paper reviews the extent of convergence between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) at a number of scales. It also examines what is at stake if the two agendas do no...
- Strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected population’s resilience to future disasters
- ( A. Bhattacharjee;M. Bhatt;T. Vaux / Reliefweb , 2010)
- This review report from the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) examines whether its vision of a more long-lasting impact had been achieved in terms of strengthening the 2004 Tsunami-affected populati...
- Older people in emergencies are more vulnerable than others
- ( HelpAge International , 2011)
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When disaster strikes, older people are among the most vulnerable to neglect, injury, death and disease, yet their needs are often overlooked. This report sets out the scale and nature of this prob...
- How to make humanitarian responses evidence-driven
- ( D. Mazurana (ed);P. Benelli (ed);H. Gupta (ed) / Feinstein International Center, USA , 2011)
- Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisi...
- Putting emergency reponses at the core of UK Government policy
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2011)
- The scale, frequency and severity of rapid onset humanitarian disasters will continue to grow in the coming years, due to a number of factors - including rapid population growth, e...
- Considering stabilisation efforts and humanitarian action
- ( S. Collinson (ed);S. Elhawary (ed);R. Muggah (ed) / Overseas Development Institute [ES] , 2010)
- Stabilization includes a combination of military, humanitarian, political and economic activities to control, contain and manage areas affected by armed conflict and complex emergencies. This paper ex...
- Reviewing the role of World Bank post-disaster cash transfers in Asia
- ( R. Heltberg / Development Policy Review , 2007)
- This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the a...
- How can resilience be built?
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2005)
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This paper presents a detailed overview of ‘The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015', which was adopted at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Hyogo, Japan in 2005.
- How can DRR and CCA be integrated?
- ( A. Gero;K. Méheux;D. Dominey-Howes / University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australian Tsunami Research Centre & Natural Hazards Research Laboratory (ATRC-NHRL) , 2010)
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This paper presents the integration of DRR and CCA initiatives in the pacific community, and draws upon the knowledge and insight of key stakeholders from multiple backgrounds to develop an un...
- Promoting an integrated approach to Disaster Risk Management
- ( F. Sperling;F. Szekely / International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2005)
- Climate change is a reality, not a distant possibility in the future. Weather-related disasters are exerting an increasing toll on developing and developed countries, destroying lives and livelihoods ...
