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    The IASC gender handbook for humanitarian action: women, girls, boys and men - different needs and equal opportunities

    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2006
    In the rush to provide humanitarian response when a disaster hits or a conflict erupts, paying specific attention to gender issues may seem irrelevant.
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    Disaster risk reduction: a gender and livelihood perspective

    InfoResources, 2009
    This paper highlights gender as a very important factor in determining vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The degree of vulnerability to disaster is determined by social variables like gender, age, health status, ethnicity, religion and socio-economic status and understanding these is necessary to identify the underlying causes of disasters and thus try to prevent them.
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    The human capital consequences of civil war: evidence from Guatemala

    Households in Conflict Network, 2008
    This paper investigates the impact of the worst period (1979-1984) of Guatemala's civil war  on educational outcomes of individuals.
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    Gender review: mainstreaming gender and women’s rights in the development portfolio of the Norwegian representative office in Al-Ram

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009
    This review focuses on how the Norwegian cooperation with the Palestinian Territories (PT) addresses women’s issues and gender concerns as defined in the Norwegian policy documents.
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    Building livelihoods: a field manual for practitioners in humanitarian settings

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
    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 garner skills, training and economic opportunities in order to establish sustainable livelihoods.
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    AID All in Diary: a practical tool for field based humanitarian workers

    AID All in Diary - a practical tool for field based humanitarian workers, 2009
    <p>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. The All In Diary is designed for use in disaster situations and is specifically aimed at field based humanitarian workers in international and local NGOs.
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    UNICEF humanitarian action report 2009

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
    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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    The gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction: the challenges in development aid

    Gender Action, 2009
    This chapter constructs a framework for understanding the gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction (PCR), in order to strengthen assessments, project design, and policy-formulation with the aim of achieving sustainable peace, participation and prosperity.
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    Integrating gender in post-conflict security sector reform

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2008
    The UN made a firm commitment towards integrating gender issues into peace and conflict processes with Resolution 1325. However despite the 2000 document calling for a mainstreaming of gender issues through all aspects of 'peace and conflict' little progress has been made in a key post-conflict area - Security Sector Reform (SSR).
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    Young female fighters in African wars

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2008
    Young women are not only combatants in contemporary African wars, they also participate in a whole array of different roles. By and large, though they remain invisible in these contexts to northern policy makers and NGOs.

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