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  An assessment of the effects of Norwegian development assistance on poverty reduction and conflict prevention

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 2001

  This study assesses the impact of Norwegian aid assistance. Recent research into aid effectiveness has shown that aid is most effective in poverty reduction when it is targeted to countries that are very poor and (among those countries) when it is focused on those that have made substantial progress reforming economic institutions and policies.
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  Enhancing local capacity to manage conflicts: Malian women take centre stage

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Have we neglected the gender dimensions of conflict over natural resources (NR)? Are women’s capacities to analyse and resolve NR disputes sufficiently recognised? Can women’s rights to participate in NR management be affirmed in a way that is not confrontational? How could women be integrated into peace-making and reconciliation initiatives?
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  Dilemmas of aid delivery in the midst of conflict

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Defying the odds, people survive while conflict rages round them. How do they do it? In situations of chronic conflict and political instability (SCCPIs) can livelihoods analysis complement a political economy approach? What kind of aid channels are best suited to efforts to support livelihoods?
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  Reconstructing Iraq: a guide to the issues

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2003

  The military victory in Iraq has given rise to the challenge of rebuilding the country and delivering on President Bush’s promise of a free and democratic future for the Iraqi people. Yet post-war reconstruction and transition to self-governance are complex and extremely difficult challenges, and the case of Iraq poses unique problems.
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  Database of malaria control in complex emergencies, 2000

  Malaria Consortium, 2000

  This database presents the results of a questionnaire, developed and sent to agencies involved in malaria control in countries in complex emergency situations, together with literature reviews.
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  Reproductive health during conflict and displacement

  Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization (WHO), 2000

  This Guide aims to provide a brief analysis of the impact of conflict and displacement on the provision of health services and on the reproductive health of individuals and communities.
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  The role of education in protecting children in conflict

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2003

  This paper argues for a reappraisal of the position of education in emergency programming. It explores the links between education and the wider protection needs of the children it assists. It suggests that, as protection in conflict emerges more clearly as a legitimate humanitarian concern, so the role of education as a tool of protection must be more clearly understood.
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  Alone on the dance floor: UNHCR and the return of Afghan refugees

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Were donors, refugee agencies, the media and the Karzai government wrong to encourage Afghan refugees to rush home to a devastated country in the grip of drought and political instability?
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  The challenge of keeping refugee camps demilitarised

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  What should be done about populations of forced migrants containing both civilian refugees and combatants? How should UN peacekeepers and refugee officials co-operate with each other? Does involvement of the military in disarming armed refugees compromise principles of neutrality?
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  Politics v humanitarianism on the front line – can the UN get its act together?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Are peacekeeping operations incoherent? Has the humanitarian imperative of protecting and saving lives in conflict taken second place to UN peace operations? Has pursuit of the myth of sustainable peace distracted the UN from the more immediate necessity of keeping people alive?

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