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    Poor, poorer, poorest: urban livelihoods and vulnerability in Mazar-i-Sharif

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    What are the conditions in which the urban poor in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan make their livelihoods? How and why do livelihood strategies change over time? This AREU publication reports on a case study undertaken in five settlements in Mazar-i-Sharif to complement ongoing long-term research on the changing livelihood strategies of the poor in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad and Herat.
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    Coping with war, coping with peace: livelihood adaptation in Bosnia-Herzegovina

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2005
    How have livelihoods in Bosnia-Herzegovina changed during the pre-war, conflict, and post-war periods? What can humanitarian agencies learn from this? This paper reports on a study carried out for USAID during 2004. The study used quantitative and qualitative date and a livelihoods framework to examine household livelihood strategies during three time periods in six rural villages.
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    Cities, disasters and livelihoods

    Reliefweb, 2000
    Does the livelihoods approach help to interpreting the complexities of urban poverty? Can it act as a tool for linking micro level households to macro level municipality controls? Using recent disaster case studies, Sanderson analyses how livelihoods can offer an approach that focuses on vulnerable households, and unifies understandings of disaster management with development planning.
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    Afghans in Peshawar: migration, settlement and social networks

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2006
    How do Afghans living across the Pakistan border in Peshawar make their livelihoods? How important is cross-border movement to their survival activities? This publication reports on qualitative research conducted as one of three case studies of Afghans living in different parts of Pakistan.
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    Afghanistan. Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection: An Initial Assessment

    World Bank, 2005
    What are the parameters of poverty and vulnerability in Afghanistan today? What form should the social protection accompanying growth-oriented policy take?This World Bank report sets out what is known about how livelihoods are constructed in rural Afghanistan, factors of vulnerability, and guidelines for putting in place a growth-oriented development strategy with poverty reduction objectives.
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    Addressing livelihoods in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    What are the historical and current livelihood trends in Afghanistan? How can livelihoods issues be addressed more strongly in the policy and programming processes of the reconstruction agenda?
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    Gender perspectives: integrating disaster risk reduction into climate change adaptation good practices and lessons learned

    United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2008
    It is a well-known prediction that women in the developing world will suffer the most from the effects of climate change. What needs equal emphasis is the fact that women also represent an immense source of potential and power to combat the increased disaster risks that climate change will bring.
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    Don't call it shangri-la economic programs for displaced populations in Nepal

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2008
    In 1996, an armed Maoist insurgency grew out of the Communist Party of Nepal and resulted in 10 years of conflict, human rights violations perpetrated by both the government and the Maoists, and large-scale
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    Migration & development linkage in Sri Lanka: a post-tsunami and civil conflict approach

    Federico Caffe Center, Dept. of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, 2007
    This paper examines the linkages between migration and development with a particular focus on the post-tsunami and civil conflict approach in Sri-Lanka. It also reviews migration policies and their integration in national and/or international development whilst also identifying migration strategies and good practices.
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    Cash-transfer programming in emergencies

    Oxfam, 2006
    This manual is intended to support the implementation of cash transfer programmes in emergencies. It is based on the experience of Oxfam GB over five years (2000–2005) in a variety of disaster contexts. It argues that cash transfers may offer the following advantages over food aid:

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