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    Review of the strategic framework for Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    The purpose of this review is to assess the extent to which the Strategic Framework for Afghanistan (SFA) has met its aims of improving the effectiveness of the assistance programme in Afghanistan and in making progress towards building peace.The paper concludes that whilst the SFA is a bold and imaginative initiative it has not yet achieved the objective of coherence between political, human r
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    Taking refugees for a ride? The politics of refugee return to Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2002
    This paper charts the course of the assisted repatriation programme organised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), discusses its consequences for those who repatriated, those who did not, and for the pace of reconstruction in Afghanistan, and asks whether it should and could have been managed differently.The paper argues that in considering the return of r
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    Financing and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations

    World Bank, 2003
    This paper is concerned with the specific issues of financing modalities and aid management arrangements in post-conflict situations, and advances a number of recommendations on the basis of a review of several recent cases.
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    Land rights in crisis: restoring tenure security in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2003
    This paper summarises the findings of a short exercise to identify land issues in present-day Afghanistan.
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    Public health and humanitarian interventions: developing the evidence base

    British Medical Journal, 2000
    During an emergency response, there is a tension between saving lives in the short term and promoting longer-lasting health systems development. An article in the British Medical Journal makes the case for expanding the evidence base underlying humanitarian aid.
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    Responding to displacement: Balancing needs and rights

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find ‘durable solutions’ for those who are forced to flee their homes, attitudes have, if anything, hardened towards refugees and asylum-seekers.
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    Participation, self-reliance and integration: Sudanese refugees in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    For many years, there have been calls for the greater participation of refugees in programmes meant to support and assist them. Has this been achieved in reality?
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    Is the UNHCR doing its job?: Combining refugee relief with local development in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Food and water deprivation, inadequate health and education facilities, prison-like restrictions on freedom of movement, ethnic and gender violence, ad-hoc justice and collective punishment: this is how Cairo- based refugee scholar Barbara Harrell-Bond recently described the plight of many refugees in UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) camps in Africa.
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    A troubling dilemma: capacity building in the midst of conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    As conflicts rage, is it realistic for the international community to hope to build local capacity? Or should it focus solely on delivering assistance? Are current patterns of north-south interaction helpful in the resolving of humanitarian crises? Can we move away from the compartmentalisation of humanitarian relief into small boxes and short time-frames?
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    Peacebuilding: more than a buzzword?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In Guatemala and Kenya, local NGOs attempt to end re-occurring violence and to promote reconciliation. Can their experiences help to produce an approach that will increase the capacity of local civil society networks to advocate for, implement and sustain peace? How should the impact of peacebuilding be assessed?

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