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    Water, sanitation and hygiene promotion for people at risk

    Action Against Hunger, 2005
    Access to water and sanitation is one of the major challenges for the 21st century, affecting millions of people around the world.
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    Communicating disasters: an Asia Pacific resource book

    Television for Education – Asia Pacific, 2007
    The tsunami communication failures inspired much reflection in the global humanitarian community. There is now a growing recognition on the need for a culture of communication that values proper information management and inclusive information sharing.This book explores the different elements and combinations that could help evolve such a culture in Asia.
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    A series of Oxfam manuals on the provision of water for conflict and natural disaster affected populations

    Oxfam, 2008
    Access to water and sanitation is one of the major challenges faced by populations affected by conflict or natural disasters. The following technical manuals developed by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team aim to enable the provision of a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster.
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    Guidelines: national platforms for disaster risk reduction

    United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2007
    The need to systematically reduce the increased impact of disasters is gaining recognition and commitment among Governments worldwide, especially after the December 2004 Indian Ocean
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    Human rights and natural disasters: operational guidelines and field manual on human rights protection in situations of natural disaster

    Brookings Institution, 2008
    All too often the human rights of disaster victims are not sufficiently taken into account. Unequal access to assistance, discrimination in aid provision, sexual and gender-based violence, loss of documentation, unsafe or involuntary return or resettlement, and issues of property restitution are just some of the problems that many survivors encounter.
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    The HAP 2007 standard in humanitarian accountability and quality management

    Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, 2007
    Humanitarian agencies exercise significant financial, technical and logistical power in their mission to save lives and reduce suffering. In contrast, disaster survivors have no formal control and often little influence over emergency relief agencies, making it difficult for the people affected by disasters to hold these aid agencies to account.
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    Targeting in emergencies

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2006
    Targeting is a process that spans the life of a food aid operation, not just the initial phases of identifying beneficiaries. Finding the right balance between inclusion and exclusion errors, opportunity costs and programme costs is a complex task.
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    Rethinking disasters: why death and destruction is not nature's fault but human failure

    Oxfam, 2008
    This report assesses the impact of human failure on natural disasters. It seeks to inform decision-makers on how to reduce people's vulnerability to natural disasters in South Asia.
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    Proceedings of workshop towards operationalising of regional consensus on disaster risk reduction in South Asia

    Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2007
    This paper reports on a meeting to review the status of the implementation of the Delhi Declaration and to chalk out a programme of action that helps to operationlise the South Asian Association Regional Consensus (SAARC) on Disaster Management.
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    Rethinking food security in humanitarian response

    Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, 2008
    This paper serves as a background document to help frame discussion at the Food Security Forum in Rome, April 2008. It focuses on policy and institutional reform issues centred on the links between chronic and transitory crises.

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