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Human Rights Report on Darfur May 2004-Oct 2004
Sudan Organisation Against Torture, 2004This paper traces the recent history of the conflict in Sudan, examining the roles of the various independent factions and the government. The authors chronicle many of the specific skirmishes, the villages destroyed, the individuals killed, and the parties responsible, in an effort to bring to light the horrors of the ongoing civil war.DocumentPersecution, intimidation, and failure of assistance in Darfur
Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004In the context of the civil war being waged in Darfur, Sudan, this paper seeks to convey what has happened to the health of people in Darfur based on data emerging from MSF clinics and surveys. The objective of the report is to create some understanding of the magnitude and depth of the suffering and the failure to address these problems.DocumentOur common interest: report of the Commission for Africa
Commission for Africa, 2005The Report presents a number recommendations as an agenda for progress concerning debt, aid, trade and HIV and Aids in Africa. The actions proposed by the Commission constitute a coherent package for Africa. The problems they address are interlocking.DocumentOn the brink: weak states and US national security
Center for Global Development, USA, 2004This report outlines shortcomings in the United States’ policy towards nations on the verge of collapse or recovering from conflict, and presents an action framework for improvement.The Commission identified three capability gaps that differentiate a troubled or weak state from simply a poor one:the security gap: where the state is failing to control territory and protect citizens fromDocumentBetter aid delivery or deconcentration of bureaucracy?: a snapshot of the EC's devolution process
European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004This paper explores the progress of the process of devolution in the European Union’s development and humanitarian assistance programme. In 1990 the European Commission decided that delegations and some beneficiary states should be granted more decision-making authority and this should be formalised in contracts.DocumentDevelopment effectiveness in fragile states: spillovers and turnarounds
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2004This papers examines aid effectiveness in fragile states with particularly weak policies and institutions.DocumentFragile states: defining difficult environments for poverty reduction
Department for International Development, UK, 2004This paper, published by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), presents a working definition of difficult environments that is both linked to the wider debate about fragile states but at the same time focuses the challenge on donor-recipient relationships for poverty reduction.DocumentChildren in crisis: good practices in evaluating psychosocial programming
Save the Children Fund, USA, 2004This manual presents major principles of psychosocial project design and evaluation, and seeks to heighten critical awareness of the cultural and ethical issues associated with psychosocial work.The manual is set out as follows:the concept of psychosocial development.DocumentFrom aid effectiveness to development effectiveness: strategy and policy coherence in fragile states
Overseas Development Institute, 2004The impact of non-aid policies on development outcomes is gaining ever-higher priority, with an emphasis on securing coherence across government departments. Policy coherence is particularly important in relation to fragile states.