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  Tsunami response: a human rights assessment

  ActionAid International, 2006

  This report from ActionAid outlines how one year after the Tsunami, despite the tremendous efforts of local, national and international agencies, the rehabilitation and reconstruction process is fraught with difficulties.
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  Global humanitarian assistance update 2004 -05

  Global Humanitarian Assistance, 2005

  This update contains 34 charts which aim to provide the latest information and statistics on trends in humanitarian assistance. The document considers where money is being spent, by whom and on what.The update is divided into chapters focusing on different areas of humanitarian assistance.
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  Predictable funding for humanitarian emergencies: a challenge to donors

  Oxfam, 2005

  This short paper focuses on one the upgrading of the existing UN Central Emergency Revolving Fund (CERF) to a new Central Emergency Response Fund. The authors argue that UN Member States should together commit US$1 billion into the new CERF.
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  Aftershocks: natural disaster risk and economic development policy

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This briefing paper considers when and where economics gives more attention to natural disasters.
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  Humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan, 2001-05: from Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2005

  This report, initiated by The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida), the Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI), the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID), presents the findings of an Evaluation of their assistance to Afghanistan over 2001-early 2005.Main recomme
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  ALNAP's review of humanitarian action in 2004

  Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2005

  This report provides an analysis and understanding of current trends in humanitarian action, as a means of supporting improvement in sector-wide performance.
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  Humanitarian engagement with non-state armed actors: the parameters of negotiated access

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2005

  This document examines the parameters of responsible humanitarian engagement with armed non-state actors (ANSAs). The author argues that all engagement should maintain minimal operational preconditions, such as security for aid workers, and respect for international humanitarian law.
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  Humanitarian response review

  Reliefweb, 2005

  This report considers and assesses humanitarian response capacities of the UN, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement.
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  Humanitarian issues in Niger

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This Humanitarian Policy Group briefing note highlights some of the questions that will need to be answered in order to explain the slowness of the international response to the 2005 famine in Niger. It argues that this is not just a case of donors failing to provide resources quickly enough.
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  Children’s feedback committees in Zimbabwe: an experiment in humanitarian accountability

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This publication chronicles the attempt by Save the Children (UK) to set up an accountability project, related to the agency’s food aid intervention in Zimbabwe, that would address some of the issues of aid worker accountability.

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