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    From risk to resilience: the cost-benefit analysis methodology

    ProVention Consortium, 2008
    Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an established tool for determining the economic efficiency of development interventions. A limited number of studies have demonstrated that disaster prevention can pay high dividends. Despite the benefits, disaster risk management (DRM) measures are rarely implemented and there is, for the most part, a reliance on reactive, after-the-fact approaches.
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    Need and greed: corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2008
    Emergency environments present unique corruption risks for agencies operating within them. Relief is delivered amidst weak or absent rule of law, endemic corruption and immense need. This short policy brief argues that the high level of needs of crisis-affected populations means that they can ill-afford corruption that compromises their access to assistance.
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    Participatory Impact Assessment: a guide for practitioners

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions.
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    Is it the fault of NGOs alone?: aid and dependency in eastern Sudan

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Does humanitarian assistance end up creating dependence, not development? Scholars of development studies have long debated the efficacy of humanitarian assistance in the Sudan, especially in eastern Sudan, where humanitarian agencies have been working for more than two decades.
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    Measuring the effectiveness of supplementary feeding programmes in emergencies

    Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2008
    Emergency Supplementary Feeding Programmes (SFPs) have been widely implemented for a number of decades as part of the standard toolkit of emergency response. Programmes are normally implemented in conjunction with general food distributions in order to address moderate malnutrition in emergencies.
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    An integrated approach needed for the growing threat of climate-related insecurity

    UN, 2008
    Under an intensifying era of climate change, this policy briefaddresses the need for an integrated response to deal with the challenge of climate related insecurity.
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    Between war and peace: land and humanitarian action in Colombia

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    This Working Paper highlights some of the main land tenure issues in Colombia. It aims to look at how some of the humanitarian organisations in Colombia are responding to the country’s crisis, outline the challenges they confront, and assess the importance of understanding and addressing land tenure issues in humanitarian response.
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    Sustainable livelihoods and vulnerability to disasters

    Benfield Hazard Research Centre, 2001
    What are the livelihood needs and opportunities that result from disasters? What are the practical options for enhancing livelihoods in disasters? This paper, prepared for the Disaster Mitigation Institute, reviews various models for understanding and reducing vulnerability to disasters and considers their respective merits.
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    Supporting livelihoods in situations of chronic conflict and political instability: overview of conceptual issues

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    Can humanitarian agencies do more than provide basic relief goods in responding to chronic conflict situations? How can agencies be used more effectively to enable households to secure their livelihoods?
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    The Great Lakes Pact and the rights of displaced people: a guide for civil society

    Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008
    The Great Lakes region has one of the largest displaced populations in the whole world with about two million refugees and ten million IDPs. Most of these displacements are due to violent conflict.

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