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Lost in translation: managing coordination and leadership reform in the humanitarian system
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007This report analyses the operational consequences of humanitarian reform initiatives, and the interaction between them. It particularly focuses on the cluster approach and efforts to strengthen the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) system.DocumentThe gathering storm: infectious diseases and human rights in Burma
Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2007This document sheds light on the factors that have contributed to Burma’s health situation and the spread of infectious diseases in Burma, and across its borders.DocumentAid to fragile states: do donors help or hinder?
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2007This paper examines the relationship between state failure and development assistance.DocumentMinority rights: the key to conflict prevention
Minority Rights Group International, 2007Minority issues lie at the heart of many violent conflicts, yet their importance is often overlooked within international efforts at conflict prevention.DocumentRemittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007Remittances, or migrants sending money home, are an important part of many people’s lives around the world. Relatively little is known, however, about the role that remittances play in crises.DocumentEnhancing Southern capacity: rhetoric and reality
Forced Migration Review, 2007Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern organisations. In this edition of Forced Migration Review, researchers and practitioners from around the world examine how far the rhetoric of capacity-building is matched by the reality.DocumentForeign aid and economic development in postwar Lebanon
United Nations University, 2007Since the end of its civil war, foreign aid to Lebanon has been considered an important element of postwar reconstruction.This paper examines aid flows to postwar Lebanon since 1992, and their implications on reconstruction and economic development.Author identifies an important shift in 1997, when aid went from reconstruction needs towards financial stability and balance-of-payments equilibrium nDocumentGreater than the sum of its parts? Assessing "whole of government" approaches to fragile states
International Peace Academy, 2007This study examines efforts to promote policy coherence toward fragile states by seven donor governments: the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, and Sweden.DocumentIraq's displacement crisis: the search for solutions
Forced Migration Review, 2006This document presents a collection of articles on the humanitarian problem in Iraq. Amongst other issues, the articles focus particularly on refugees and population displacement. The editors argue that the humanitarian community has only belatedly begun to acknowledge the extent of the greatest conflict-induced displacement in the history of the Middle East.OrganisationCenter on International Cooperation, New York University (CIC)
The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct engPages