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    Non-discrimination in emergencies: training manual and toolkit

    Save the Children Fund, 2008
    Agencies who respond to emergencies are also in danger of maintaining or even worsening the entrenched exclusion and prejudice experienced by many people before an emergency. Children, as an already powerless group, may be particularly at risk of discrimination in an emergency.
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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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    CBDRM and poverty reduction in PDR-SEA4

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2008
    In least developed countries, dealing with disaster risk management (DRM) is a never-ending challenge for poverty reduction with recurrent natural disasters. Natural phenomena caused by climatic and/or geologic reasons only become disasters when they result in adverse impacts on people and/or their economic assets and other sources of well-being.
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    Gender sensitive disaster management: a toolkit for practitioners

    Earthworm Books, 2008
    The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. Vulnerabilities and capacities of individuals and social groups evolve over time and determine people’s abilities to cope with disaster and recover from it.
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    From food crisis to fair trade: livelihoods analysis, protection and support in emergencies

    Emergency Nutrition Network, 2006
    This article begins with an overview of livelihoods programming in the context of emergencies; an increasingly popular approach, going beyond a focus on food aid alone. In general there is a lack of written analysis of emergency livelihoods interventions.
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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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    From grassroots to global: people centered disaster risk reduction

    ProVention Consortium, 2008
    In April 2008 a group of 170 partners met in Panama city to attend the forum ‘From Grassroots to Global: People-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction’. This document records the energy, ideas and views resulting from discussions and presentations in the formal sessions and also in the corridors of the event.

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