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    Tools for mainstreaming disaster risk reduction: guidance notes for development organisations

    ProVention Consortium, 2007
    How to mainstream disaster risk reduction into the work of development organisations? This ProVention paper aims to support the efforts of development organisations in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into their work.
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    From the ground up: education and livelihoods in South Sudan

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2007
    This report is based on the findings of a field mission to southern Sudan to assess education and livelihood programmes, including formal and non-formal education, vocational training, income generation and micro-credit.It finds that the provision of education and training in the region and in displaced persons’ camps during the conflict have been grossly inadequate.
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    On the links between violent conflict and chronic poverty: how much do we really know?

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2006
    Violent conflict, ranging in intensity from riots to wars, has become commonplace in today's world, and it would appear as though civil unrest on all scales is inextricably linked to poverty and deprivation. Or is it? This paper examines the trends emerging from recent research into the relationship between violent conflict and chronic poverty.
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    Vulnerability to climate stress:local and regional perspectives: proceedings of two workshops

    Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, 2005
    This report discusses the proceedings of two related workshops, which presented the findings of the project “Adaptation as a livelihood struggle: conflict and vulnerability among dryland populations in Kenya”. This research looked at how conflicts shape adaptation and contribute to vulnerability in the face of climate stresses, such as drought.
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    Agricultural rehabilitation: mapping the linkages between humanitarian relief, social protection and development

    Overseas Development Institute, 2006
    This paper addresses the question of how to support the livelihoods of rural people who have been affected by conflict.
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    Social vulnerability, sustainable livelihoods and disasters

    Benfield Hazard Research Centre, 2004
    In 1997 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) adopted the priorities of the White Paper on International Development recognising the significance of socio-economic factors in making individuals vulnerable to disaster.
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    Livelihoods and conflict

    US Agency for International Development, 2005
    This "toolkit" explains the connections between livelihood and conflict and aims to provide USAID missions with access to concrete, practical program options, lessons learned, and information about potential partners, mechanisms and monitoring and evaluation tools for implementing more effective conflict programmes. The document concentrates on how violent conflict can affect individu
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    The impact of water conflicts on pastoral livelihoods: the case of Wajir District in Kenya

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    This report describes and analyses relationships between natural resource-based conflicts and pastoral livelihoods in Wajir District, Kenya in order to examine the extent to which livelihood opportunities are lost to people when they spend their time and resources managing water related conflicts.The study findings confirm the assumption that water is a critical resource that determines success
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    Herding on the brink: towards a global survey of pastoral communities and conflict

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2005
    Examining the linkages between pastoralism and conflict using a sustainable livelihoods-based conflict analysis, this paper looks at the challenges posed by conflict in pastoral regions.
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    Darfur: livelihoods under siege

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2005
    This draft report presents findings of a study to investigate the effects of the current conflict and humanitarian crisis on the livelihoods of selected communities in Darfur, in order to refine strategic humanitarian interventions.The study focused on labour migration, livestock production and trade, and on communities’ links with central and eastern Sudan and with Libya.It traces the sourc

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