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    Targeting in complex emergencies: South Sudan country case study

    Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 2008
    With a focus on Southern Sudan, this paper examines community participation through the food aid program cycle, both retrospectively (during the war) and currently. It aims to investigate the participation of recipient community in the targeting and management of humanitarian food assistance in complex emergencies.
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    Dilemmas of humanitarian assistance: don't shoot the messenger – aid workers’ perspectives and practice on working with insecurity

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2008
    Based largely on qualitative data collected through interviews with humanitarian aid workers from a range of British INGOs, this paper discusses some of the security issues faced those delivering humanitarian assistance.
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    Mozambique as a model for national disaster response strategies

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In early 2007, Mozambique suffered severe flooding in its central region and a cyclone that devastated southern coastal districts. Although up to 500,000 people were affected, the emergency response was largely successful because the Government was well prepared.
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    Disabilities among refugees and conflict-affected populations: a resource kit for fieldworkers

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
    Persons with disabilities remain among the most hidden, neglected and socially excluded of all displaced people today. People with disabilities are often literally and programmatically “invisible” in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) assistance programs [adapted from author].
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    Vulnerability to hunger: improving food crisis responses in fragile states

    United Nations University, 2008
    This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decisionmakers better address the underlying causes of vulnerability and hunger.
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    Crisis in Kenya: land, displacement and the search for 'durable solutions'

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the violence and displacement that followed the 2007 elections. Key messages nclude:
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    Field manual: supporting microfinance through grants in post-crisis settings

    Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2007
    This field manual offers guidance to small grant program managers on supporting microfinance institutions (MFIs) in countries recovering from conflict or natural disaster through small, short-term grants.
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    Community level adaptation to climate change: the potential role of participatory community risk assessment

    Red Cross/ Red Crescent Centre on Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness, 2008
    Community Risk Assessment (CRA) refers to participatory methods to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and capacities in support of community-based disaster risk reduction, used by many NGOs, community-based organisations, and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
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    Humanitarian agenda 2015 - the state of the humanitarian enterprise

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality.
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    Security, the War on Terror, and ODA

    North-South Institute, 2007
    Is aid now used as a tool to meet geo-political ends? Has the focus shifted away from poverty-alleviation to ‘ensuring’ that, in respect of the War on Terror (WOT), recipient governments do not become unstable and a breeding ground for ‘terrorists’?

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