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    Minority rights: the key to conflict prevention

    Minority Rights Group International, 2007
    Minority issues lie at the heart of many violent conflicts,  yet their importance is often overlooked within international efforts at conflict prevention.
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    Cooperation between local authority and communities: reducing flood disaster risk in Dagupan City, Philippines

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2007
    This brief outlines the flood risks faced by Dagupan City, Philippines and highlights lessons learned in disaster risk reduction. In particular, this case shows how integrating flooding risk reduction as a regular and joint activity of city governments with their communities has galvanised action, and fostered a growing sense of unity and pride in the city.
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    Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    Remittances, or migrants sending money home, are an important part of many people’s lives around the world. Relatively little is known, however, about the role that remittances play in crises.
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    Enhancing Southern capacity: rhetoric and reality

    Forced Migration Review, 2007
    Virtually every humanitarian agency talks about their commitment to building Southern capacity and, increasingly, this discourse has been focused on forming ‘partnerships’ with Southern organisations. In this edition of Forced Migration Review, researchers and practitioners from around the world examine how far the rhetoric of capacity-building is matched by the reality.
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    Young people's forum: Disasters and the aftermath: building young people’s life skills for health and education: country consultations summary report

    UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, 2007
    Young people in Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand have been confronted in the past few years with a series of disasters of tremendous proportions. This paper reports on a regional forum on Disasters and the Aftermath held in Bangkok from April 30 - May 5, which aimed to engage young people from these three countries as active participants in dealing with future disasters.
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    Foreign aid and economic development in postwar Lebanon

    United Nations University, 2007
    Since the end of its civil war, foreign aid to Lebanon has been considered an important element of postwar reconstruction.This paper examines aid flows to postwar Lebanon since 1992, and their implications on reconstruction and economic development.Author identifies an important shift in 1997, when aid went from reconstruction needs towards financial stability and balance-of-payments equilibrium n
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    The Chinese aid system

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
    China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa. However, little is known about this aid and some Western aid agencies fear it may discourage needed economic and political reforms in African countries, or burden poor countries with additional debt.
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    Good humanitarian donorship: overcoming obstacles to improved collective donor performance

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2007
    Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) was initiated in 2003 by a group of donors as a set of objectives, definitions and general principles for humanitarian action. However, progress on implementation of GHD has so far been piecemeal and limited by a number of obstacles.
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    Total disaster risk management handbook

    Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 2005
    This handbook's central theme is the development and application of a system for managing any hazards which appear to threaten a continually habitable and secure society. Directly relating to Thailand, the suggestions presented are applicable to any region or nation at risk of natural or man-made disasters.
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    Iraq's displacement crisis: the search for solutions

    Forced Migration Review, 2006
    This document presents a collection of articles on the humanitarian problem in Iraq. Amongst other issues, the articles focus particularly on refugees and population displacement. The editors argue that the humanitarian community has only belatedly begun to acknowledge the extent of the greatest conflict-induced displacement in the history of the Middle East.

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