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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- Guidelines on mental and psychological support in emergency settings
- ( Inter-Agency Standing Committee , 2007)
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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...
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)
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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...
- 2009 UN report on disaster risk reduction: assessing the challenge
- ( PreventionWeb , 2009)
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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...
- Practical tools for field based humanitarian workers
- ( L. Richardson;G. Price / AID All in Diary - a practical tool for field based humanitarian workers , 2009)
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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....
- Compromising humanitarianism: aid in time of conflict
- ( S. Cornish;M. Glad / CARE International , 2008)
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The authors of this paper assert that In the aftermath of 9/11, the security agenda has largely trumped the
human security agenda to the detriment of vulnerable populations and of development... - Planning a sustainable exit strategy
- ( S. Truelove / Eldis Document Store , 2007)
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Whether scaling down operations or phasing these out completely, international agencies engaged in relief and recovery programmes should ensure that their exit strategies are sustainable. This pres...
- Planning closure for relief and recovery missions
- ( S. Truelove / Eldis Document Store , 2007)
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Closing emergency relief and recover missions should be considered as a project in itself and is best planned when there is a certainty and clear schedules for closing a programme. This document, o...
- Practical guidance for implementing a responsible exit strategy
- ( S. Truelove / Eldis Document Store , 2008)
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When it comes to humanitarian and relief agencies leaving an area in which they have been working, it is important to ensure this is done responsibly and to link relief and reconstruction to develo...
- Children as risk communicators and agents of change in DRR programmes: El Salvador and the Philippines
- ( T. Tanner;T. Mitchell;K. Haynes / Children in a Changing Climate , 2009)
- This paper explores children’s voices in disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy spaces and their capacity to communicate disaster risk to their parents and larger community. It challenges the trad...
UNICEF humanitarian action report 2009: challenges to be faced
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2009)
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This 2009 UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report is an appeal for children and women affected by emergencies in 36 countries in the six UNICEF regions.
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