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    Decentralised disaster risk management training

    Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2009
    The concept of decentralised disaster risk management (DDRM) derives its insights from community-based disaster management (CBDM) in South Asia. As well as community ownership and leadership in risk reduction activities, the DDRM approach emphasizes the need for local level governance institutions to also be actively engaged in risk reduction.
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    African Monitor

    As a Pan-African body established in 2006, African Monitor aims to assess the link between:
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    The global financial crisis: risks for fragile states in Africa

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This commentary brief considers the risks of the global financial crisis to fragile states, particularly in Africa. The author writes that it poses a serious threat to global peace and security and has the potential to create the conditions whereby policy disputes spiral into instability – violent or non-violent.
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    Foreign assistance and political market imperfections in post-conflict countries

    Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2009
    This paper notes that post-conflict countries face enormous development challenges and substantive policy consequences. It calls for appropriate responses for conflict affected nations such as financial assistance from donors, private investment and capacity building.
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    Tracking results in agriculture and rural development in less-than-ideal conditions

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    While donors and development practitioners still lack a common framework of results indicators to measure the effectiveness of development assistance, this sourcebook sets out a menu of core indicators that can be used to monitor agriculture and rural development (ARD) at the project, national regional and global levels.
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    Arab Human Development Report 2009: challenges to human security in Arab countries

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2009
    This report examines human development in the Arab world through a human security lens, calling on policymakers and other stakeholders to move away from a state-centric conception of security to one which also concentrates on the security of individuals, their protection and their empowerment.
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    Eliminating world poverty: building our common future - DFID's white paper

    Department for International Development, UK, 2009
    The new DFID White Paper, Building our Common Future, presents a shift in the way the UK delivers development aid, refocusing resources onto fragile countries and for the first time treating security and justice as a basic service alongside health, education, water and sanitation. Fifty per cent of new bilateral funding will be committed to fragile countries.
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    The human dimension of climate adaptation: the importance of local and institutional issues

    Commission on Climate Change and Development, 2009
    Climate change is already affecting poor people and communities around the globe. This paper presents a conceptual framework that turns the mainstream adaptation discourse upside down with autonomous adaptation as the starting point for a new agenda.
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    Afghanistan: humanitarianism under threat

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    This briefing paper, published by The Feinstein International Center, provides an update on the humanitarian challenges and opportunities in Afghanistan. The author highlights, using data collected on the ground, critical issues affecting the provision of humanitarian action and suggests how they could, partially at least, be redressed.
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    Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Special Theme: health information systems

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    Over the past few years, there is growing recognition of the need for more investments in health information systems. This special theme Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that whereas such systems may seem expensive for developing countries, the costs are offset by the ensuing efficiencies.

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