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Humanitarian assistance: breaking the waves of complex political emergencies: a literature survey.
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999Conflict-precipitated human disaster has been a significant worldwide feature during the last decade, from 1989 to 1999. As complex political emergencies (which such politically caused disasters have been termed) proliferated, so did humanitarian assistance to alleviate human suffering and interventions to stop the conflicts.DocumentAn analysis of the poverty orientation of current Danida policies
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999Paper discusses Danida's current policies and activities with respect to: the overall poverty reduction goal and understandingsthe attempt to ‘mainstream' the poverty reduction objective in guidelines and proceduresthe concrete programmes and projects undertaken in Uganda.DocumentAngry young men in camps: gender, age and class relations among Burundian refugees in Tanzania
United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 1999Focuses on how the relief operation’s policy of equality challenges older hierarchies of authority. Through an analysis of refugees’ representations of gender relations, relations between generations, and relations between peasants and ‘big men’, it is shown that there is a general feeling of social decay in the camp.DocumentFrom Relief and Development to Assisted Self-Reliance: Nongovernmental Organizations in Bangladesh
Journal of Humanitarian Assistance, 1999By definition, virtually all development interventions contain a welfare element. This welfare element involves the subsidized provision to a marginalized group or community by an external agency, physical, human, and/or social capital. Where marginalization is compounded by some type of natural disaster or civil conflict, the welfare element is justifiably high.DocumentThe Design and Use of Capacity Development Indicators
Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1997Report sets out a generic list of capabilities that projects could be designed to achieve.DocumentCriteria for Donor Agencies' Self-Assessment in Capacity Development
Institutional and Capacity Development Network, DAC, 1999Aimed at reform-minded agencies and staff concerned with integrating capacity development into their day-to-day operations and improving their performance in this field. Aims to link donor's internal policies and practices to the impact of these in the field.DocumentCapacity Building: A New Way of Doing Business for Development Assistance Organizations
Institute on Governance, 1999The paper provides an overview of challenges faced by development assistance agencies as they seek to adopt a "capacity building" perspective. It explores the roots of those challenges and describes approaches to addressing them.DocumentInternational financial institutions reform: report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, March 2000
International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, US Congress (Meltzer Commission), 2000Report recommends many far-reaching changes to improve the effectiveness, accountability, and transparency of the financial institutions and to eliminate overlapping responsibilitiesThe report looking at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank,DocumentThe Kosovo refugee crisis: an independent evaluation of UNHCR's emergency preparedness and response
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2000Report assesses UNHCR's response in relation to three criteria:the overall outcome: did the refugees obtain appropriate protection and assistance?agency criteria: did UNHCR meet its own standards for providing protection and assistance during an emergency?