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Providing aid in insecure environments: trends in policy and operations
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2006There is a widespread perception within the international aid community that serious violence against aid workers has increased in recent years. This report presents findings from a two-year study examining aid in insecure environments.DocumentUnderstanding parents' attitudes to education in Afghanistan
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006A ‘Back to School’ campaign in Afghanistan has resulted in more than 4.3 million enrolments. However 2.5 million school-age children are still not in school. ‘Supply-side’ issues – school buildings, teachers and curricula – are receiving attention, but little is known about how families decide whether to send their children to school.DocumentResolving the Pakistan - Afghanistan stalemate
United States Institute of Peace, 2006This report discusses the history as well as the contemporary situation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border characterised by conflict around the border lands, the poor development situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan and the contemporary conflict and the potential for a border settlement.The report argues that Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the neighbouring regiDocumentHuman security: concepts, implications and application to the post-intervention challenges in Afghanistan
Centre of International Studies and Research, 2005This paper reviews the debates in relation to the concept of “human security” applied specifically to the situation in Afghanistan.It provides an examination of the definitions of human security and its reception by the international community along with analysis of the implications that the adoption of a human security approach might imply in deciding policies and applying programmes.The paDocumentManaging aid dependency project, donor coordination and good governance.
Global Economic Governance Programme, University College Oxford, 2006Donor coordination, and its more formal expression in the 'Harmonisation and Alignment' agenda, has been the focus of increasing attention in aid debates.DocumentThe benefits contracting health services in Afghanistan
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006Afghanistan has emerged from over twenty years of war with some of the worst health indicators in the world. It has the fourth highest rate of infant and child mortality, as well as one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Access to basic health care is critical if the lives of Afghanistan’s war-affected people are to be improved.DocumentTaking stock: Afghan women and girls five years on
Womankind, 2006This research shows that five years after the fall of the Taliban regime the gains made on paper for women and girls are not matched in reality when you look at what is happening on the ground. Set in a table format around key women’s rights issues, this balance sheet draws together a wide range of research and anecdotal evidence collected from national and international sources.DocumentBeauty queens and wallflowers: currency unions in the Middle East and Central Asia
International Monetary Fund, 2006Against the background of the theory of optimum currency areas, this paper analyses possible scenarios for establishing a currency union (CU) in the Middle East and Central Asia region.The paper outlines the theory of optimum currency areas and provides an overview of recent empirical findings on the benefits and cost of membership.Through statistical analysis based on countries’ GDP, growthDocumentEducation and the role of NGOs in emergencies: Afghanistan 1978-2002
US Agency for International Development, 2006In political and social crisis and emergencies the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as frontline service providers is critical, as chronic unrest and fragmentation render the capacity of the state to provide public service ineffective or virtually non-existent.