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    The use of private security providers and services in humanitarian operations

    Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2008
    Humanitarian action and security have an uneasy relationship. Some agencies, notably the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres, pointedly do not employ security escorts in order to ensure the ‘integrity’ of their operations. However many humanitarian organisations feel it necessary to protect their staff in conflict-affected field operations by employing such personnel.
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    Training guide for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008
    A significant gap remains between need and capacity for management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children. This is despite clear advances in the development and implementation of international and national protocols for the management of SAM, as well as guidelines and training for inpatient care of severely acutely malnourished children.
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    WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Sexual violence in emergencies is a complex, sensitive, and dangerous problem. Increasingly, humanitarian and human rights actors, researchers, donors, governments, civil society, and others are supporting or engaging in activities to collect information about sexual violence.This information is sought to inform prevention and response efforts as well as advocacy.
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    The economic effects of restricted access to land in the West Bank

    World Bank, 2008
    In developing countries, land often provides a foundation for economic activities in a variety of sectors. In the West Bank, it takes on a particular significance as economic activity is stifled by conflict and much of the land area is inaccessible due to Israeli restrictions on movement of people and access to natural resources.
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    Guidance note on early recovery

    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
    This guidance note has been developed by the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery (CWGER) to provide clarification of what early recovery approaches entail. It is designed primarily for UN practitioners and partners working at country level on early recovery in natural disasters and complex emergencies.
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    Review of development cooperation in Timor Leste: final report

    Scanteam, 2007
    This review assesses the impact of Norwegian and international development assistance on conflict transformation in Timor – Leste during the period from Independence in 2002 until the crisis in April 2006, and makes recommendations for improving present and future international cooperation.
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    Western policies are responsible for Africa’s failure to develop

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Development policies are based on a flawed analysis of the history of development by the West. African development strategies need to solve local problems with the existing material and intellectual resources of local people. Africa does not need big social goals but small policies that make everyday life more predictable.Two ideas are central to the concept of development.
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    Partnership to Protect: CSOs and the AU : An advocacy toolkit for civilian protection

    African Centre for Humanitarian Action - Africa Humanitarian Action, 2008
    Around the world, most people agree that governments must be the ones responsible for making sure that their people are protected. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. In this case, it is the responsibility of both intergovernmental organisations, like the AU, and international organisations, such as CSOs, to help protect civilians.
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    The applicability of the Paris Declaration in fragile and conflict-affected situations

    IDL Group, 2008
    The Paris Declaration sets out an overall framework of agreement and structure of mutual accountability between aid-receiving countries and their development partners to give substance to the consensus model of “country-led” development. This thematic study acts as a contribution to Accra discussions.
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    Human rights-based approaches and European Union development aid policies

    Amnesty International, 2008
    As the world's largest development donor in monetary terms, EU efforts to alleviate global poverty entail significant financial commitment as well as engagement from a complex array of institutional actors and funding lines.

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