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    Global facility for disaster reduction and recovery: handbook on the standby recovery financing facility

    International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2008
    Natural disasters present a growing threat to developing countries that lack financial or material resources to mitigate their risks to catastrophes or recover from the effects. International aid is generously made available once a country is hit by a disaster.
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    Natural disasters and remittances exploring the linkages between poverty, gender, and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future remittances.
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    Building resilience to natural disasters: a framework for private sector engagement committed to improving the state of the world

    World Economic Forum, 2008
    The unprecedented frequency and costs of natural disasters and the projected increase of their severity due to climate change are posing significant economic challenges and new risks for vulnerable populations. New approaches and investments aimed at building resilience to natural  disasters are required by all actors to help stem future losses.
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    North Korea on the precipice of famine

    Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008
    The margin of error between required grain in North Korea and available supply is now less than 100,000 metric tons. Local food prices are sky-rocketing faster than world prices, the regime has soured its aid relationships with key donors, and its control-oriented policy responses are exacerbating distress.
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    Child-oriented participatory risk assessment and planning: a toolkit

    ProVention Consortium, 2007
    In most disaster events, children’s perspective, needs and capacities are most often neglected or taken for granted. Even though children are generally the most vulnerable population in most disaster situations, they are not usually considered separately when evaluating disaster risks. [adapted from author]
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    Vulnerability to hunger: improving food crisis responses in fragile states

    United Nations University, 2008
    This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decisionmakers better address the underlying causes of vulnerability and hunger.
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    A review of emergency food security assessment practice in Ethiopia

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
    This study reviews the practice of Emergency Needs Assessment (ENA) in Ethiopia as it relates to food security, with a view to informing efforts by the World Food Programme (WFP) to improve ENA practice globally.
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    Mapping the risks of corruption in humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006
    This report examines the risk of corruption in humanitarian action. It lays out where different risks may lie within the complex system of delivery and contracts that forms the basis of humanitarian assistance.
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    Is cash a feasible alternative to food aid for post-drought relief in Lesotho

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    This report summarises the findings from a study undertaken to assess whether or not a cash based response by World Vision to the current drought in Lesotho would be appropriate and feasible.
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    Improving drought response in pastoral regions of Ethiopia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This study provides an overview of the timing, appropriateness and efficacy of interventions in response to the drought that affected the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia in 2005/2006. It identifies mechanisms to initiate more timely and appropriate interventions to protect and support pastoral livelihoods and explores donor interest in resourcing these changes.

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