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    Analysing the UN tsunami relief fund expenditure tracking data: Can the UN be more transparent?

    International Budget Partnership, 2006
    This report summarises an analysis by the International Budget Project of the UN’s real-time database for tracking expenditures for the tsunami relief program.
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    Saving lives, relieving suffering, protecting dignity: DFID’s humanitarian policy

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This policy statement details how DFID plans to prioritise and deliver its humanitarian work in the future, focusing on the poorest countries.
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    Rights and responsibilities: resolving the dilemma of humanitarian intervention

    Oxford Research Group, UK, 2005
    This paper critically examines attempts to conceptualise the use of military intervention on humanitarian grounds, with a focus on the 'responsibility to protect' framework, and offers discussion of the way forward in light of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the US-led 'war on terror'.It traces the history of the concept from its post-Cold War origins through to the UN World Summit of Septemb
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    Better ways to prepare for emergencies

    Network Learning, 2006
    This handbook aims to provide instruction and guidance for in emergency preparedness at the agency and community level. It is targeted towards those new in the field and for those preparing for or organising an introductory workshop on emergency preparedness.The handbook gives a general overview of the different types of disasters as well as how they are commonly dealt with.
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    Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

    Focus on the Global South, 2006
    This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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    Surviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook for microfinance institutions

    World Bank, 2006
    Experiences of several Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in disaster-prone areas have demonstrated that access to microfinance services can support disaster preparedness and risk reduction by decreasing client vulnerability. When clients have access to needed financial services during crisis situations, the impact of the disaster may considerably lessen.
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    Vulnerable livelihoods in Somali Region, Ethiopia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This report examines the causes and consequences of livelihood vulnerability in Somali Region, Ethiopia.Examining household’s coping mechanisms the author finds that rationing of food consumption is an immediate response to shortage, as it is costless and easily reversible.
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    Minimum standards regarding staff security in humanitarian aid

    VENRO, 2003
    Increasingly, not only have attacks on civilian populations in conflict zones become a mainstay in modern warfare, but so has attacks on aid workers.
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    Report on DFID’s response to the Indian Ocean disaster

    Department for International Development, UK, 2006
    This report summarises the response of DFID to the Asian Tsunami relief effort. Its aim is to explore the lessons learned from DFID’s response and to use that information to improve current and future services.
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    Evaluating humanitarian action using the OECD-DAC criteria: an ALNAP guide for humanitarian agencies

    Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2006
    This guide provides practical support on how to use the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) criteria in evaluation of humanitarian action (EHA).

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