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    The livelihood assessment tool-kit: analysing and responding to the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    The increase in natural disasters around the world warrants attention to protecting and rebuilding the livelihoods of vulnerable populations. This toolkit aims to assess the impact of disasters on the livelihoods of people and the capacity and opportunities for recovery and increased resilience to future events.
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    Impact of disasters on the education sector in Cambodia

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2008
    Natural disasters can cause terrible loss of life. However what is perhaps most disturbing are their impact on the most vulnerable, in institutions where safety should be paramount i.e. patients stranded in hospitals and children at their desks in schools.
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    Strengthening humanitarian networks: applying the network functions approach

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This paper aims to help those facilitating, acting within, or supporting humanitarian networks and communities reflect on their activities - and frame them in a more structured and strategic fashion.
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    Humanitarian agenda 2015 - the state of the humanitarian enterprise

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    Is ‘humanitarianism’ at risk? The humanitarian community is operating in a ‘changing’ environment which is forcing it to question its own notions of inclusivity and grapple with the fundamental issue of impartiality.
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    Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development

    Child Rights Information Network, 2008
    Global food prices have risen 83 per cent over the last three years, with significant impacts for the world's poorest people. This briefing paper focuses on what this important change means for international development. It assesses the drivers of rising prices, discusses the implications of higher prices for developing countries, and surveys implications for development policy.
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    Corruption in emergencies: what role for media?

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2006
    This document brings together the deliberations of a meeting of donors, NGOs and journalists from Sri Lanka, Liberia and Nepal on the role of the media in tackling corruption in humanitarian aid programmes. It draws on various case studies and suggests ways in which humanitarian agencies and the media can mutually support responsible coverage of corruption in emergency aid.
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    The effectiveness of foreign military assets in natural disaster response

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2008
    This study examines the advantages, limitations and implications of involving foreign military assets (personnel, equipment and expertise) in the relief operations that follow major natural disasters. It also provides an overview of recent developments in the use of such assets in response to major natural disasters, based on primary and secondary data.
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    Stay safe: the International Federation’s guide to a safer mission

    Reliefweb, 2007
    Humanitarian workers are no longer exempt from attack in conflict situations. Rather it would seem that insurgents – in the brutal theatres of warfare in Iraq, Somalia, Darfur and Afghanistan – have targeted aid and development staff as part of wider campaigns of intimidation and destabilisation.
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    Humanitarian action in Iraq: putting the pieces together

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2008
    This paper presents an assessment of humanitarian action in Iraq to date. It looks at the shortcomings of past humanitarian activity in the country since the invasion by coalition forces, with a view to learning how to deal with present and future challenges.
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    Climate testimonies: voices from communities affected by climate change

    Friends of the Earth International, 2007
    This report presents nine stories about the impact of climate change from different countries around the world. These case studies chronicle specific impacts and provide testimonies of local community members who have dramatic first-hand experience of devastating climate events.

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