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Improving the safety of civilians: a protection training pack
Oxfam, 2009In 1991 during the first Iraq war, a destitute little girl in the holy city of Safwan stood in the middle of a crowd of displaced people with a placard around her neck: ‘We don’t need food, we need safety.’ She epitomised a shift in the understanding of what civilians expect from the international community and the role of humanitarian agencies in securing it.DocumentGuidance on profiling internally displaced persons
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2008Obtaining reliable data on internally displaced persons (IDPs) is challenging. In most countries affected by internal displacement, existing data on IDPs and the conditions of their displacement is incomplete, unreliable, out of date or inaccurate. This presents a key obstacle to effective advocacy, the improvement of IDP protection and the design of targeted assistance programmes.DocumentNon-discrimination in emergencies: training manual and toolkit
Save the Children Fund, 2008Agencies who respond to emergencies are also in danger of maintaining or even worsening the entrenched exclusion and prejudice experienced by many people before an emergency. Children, as an already powerless group, may be particularly at risk of discrimination in an emergency.DocumentTraining guide for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008A significant gap remains between need and capacity for management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children. This is despite clear advances in the development and implementation of international and national protocols for the management of SAM, as well as guidelines and training for inpatient care of severely acutely malnourished children.DocumentA guide for monitoring and evaluation of Avian Influenza programs in Southeast Asia
MEASURE Evaluation, 2008As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has recognized the need to move from an emergency mindset to a mid- to long-term perspective. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems form a critical element in these longer-term approaches.DocumentGender sensitive disaster management: a toolkit for practitioners
Earthworm Books, 2008The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. Vulnerabilities and capacities of individuals and social groups evolve over time and determine people’s abilities to cope with disaster and recover from it.DocumentChild rights situation analysis
Save the Children [Sweden], 2008A multi-dimensional situation analysis focussing on child rights helps ensure that programmes and policies are better informed. It involves collecting relevant information to enable realistic assessment of what needs to be done in order to improve the lives of children.DocumentPartnership to Protect: CSOs and the AU : An advocacy toolkit for civilian protection
African Centre for Humanitarian Action - Africa Humanitarian Action, 2008Around the world, most people agree that governments must be the ones responsible for making sure that their people are protected. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. In this case, it is the responsibility of both intergovernmental organisations, like the AU, and international organisations, such as CSOs, to help protect civilians.DocumentSocial analysis sourcebook: incorporating social dimensions into bank-supported projects
World Bank, 2003Understanding the social world in which the World Bank’s investment projects operate is critical to any effort to reduce poverty. The World Bank undertakes social analysis in connection with its lending program in order to determine the suitability of the program for World Bank financing.DocumentParticipatory Impact Assessment: a guide for practitioners
Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008The ability to define and measure humanitarian impact is essential to providing operational agencies with the tools to systematically evaluate the relative efficacy of various types of interventions.Pages
