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    Livelihoods, power and choice: the vulnerability of the Northern Rizaygat, Darfur, Sudan

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2009
    Livelihoods in Darfur are intimately linked to the conflict. This document considers the livelihoods
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    Gender and livelihoods in emergencies

    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
    The increasing recognition that responses to humanitarian crisis must work to avoid long term dependency on relief aid guides this briefing. Approaches to Early Recovery (ER) aim to support the early recovery of affected populations and create a stable basis for future development.
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    Return to Afghanistan?: a study of Afghans living in Tehran

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2005
    This paper explores the experiences and livelihoods of Afghan migrants living in Iran. It aims to increase understanding of transnational migration as a key livelihood strategy in the regional context.
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    Transnational networks: recognising a regional reality

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
    This paper highlights the importance of transnational migratory networks in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Current trends in policy making on migration tend to focus on repatriation of Afghans from neighbouring countries.
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    Guidance note on early recovery

    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
    This guidance note has been developed by the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery (CWGER) to provide clarification of what early recovery approaches entail. It is designed primarily for UN practitioners and partners working at country level on early recovery in natural disasters and complex emergencies.
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    The effects of food aid on household migration patterns and implications for emergency food assessments

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    Many of the people that the World Food Programme (WFP) assists in its emergency programmes have migrated as a result of a natural or human-made disaster. This report analyses migration as it is practiced by people not only as a result of a crisis, but also as a strategy to reduce vulnerability and maximise income prior to or during a crisis.
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    Sustainable livelihoods: seeds of success?

    Forced Migration Review, 2004
    This issue of Forced Migration Review focuses on sustainable livelihoods in emergency situations. In recent years the nature of emergency assistance has undergone significant shifts. Previously, the humanitarian community tended to focus on emergency relief in the form of food aid and other short term needs of displaced persons, such as water and shelter.
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    From risk to resilience: Understanding the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction under changing climatic conditions

    Institute For Social And Environmental Transition, 2008
    This paper evaluates the costs and benefits of disaster risk reduction in the context of climate change through an analysis of case studies in India, Nepal and Pakistan. The paper focuses on water related disasters and the manner in which they may change as a consequence of climate change.
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    Supporting sustainable livelihoods: a critical review of assistance in post-conflict situations

    Institute for Security Studies, 2004
    What are the advantages and limitations of a livelihoods approach in post-conflict situations? How can the approach be developed to address insecurity? This publication takes a detailed look at how far a sustainable livelihoods (SL) approach in post-conflict situations can address long-term security and poverty issues in Africa.
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    Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2003
    What analytical tools can humanitarian agencies use to understand complex emergencies? What insights does political economy analysis produce for humanitarian interventions? This report documents the findings of an Overseas Development Institute study of four conflict environments in 2001-2: Afghanistan, the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and the Casamance in Senegal.

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