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  Refugees, displaced people and international migrants changing the face of development

  Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, 2000

  This presentation pursues two areas of reflection concerning the limitations of development strategies, both of which result from observations of armed conflicts: one is what happens to refugees, displaced persons and the diaspora (including, international migrants) and the other is what happens to the nation-state as it attempts to reconstruct and reconcile to prevent further conflict.
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  Vocational training for refugees: a case study from Tanzania

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2001

  Report concerns the evaluation of ongoing skills training programmes for the 10,000 young Burundian refugees entering adulthood each year in the refugee camps, with a view to expanding them into a wider programme based in the refugee camps.
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  Fulani settlement and modes of adjustment in the Northwest Province of Cameroon

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1993

  This collection of papers includes:Highlights of the Nigerian livestock resources report (David Bourn). This article estimates the value of Nigerian livestock as a major national asset. Who controls this asset is worth further study.Cashmere production in Northern China (Angus Russel).
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  Assessing the Need to Manage Conflict in Community-Based Natural Resource Projects

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Considers the role of ‘conflict management assessment’ in community-based natural resource projects. The importance of conducting an assessment of the potential for conflict and its management in relation to a project intervention is stressed, and an assessment framework described.
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  The right to food in theory and practice

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999

  FAO (ed), contributions from different authors from UN, academia and NGO-sector. In this publication, the rights related to food are examined from both the human rights and the operational points of view. Distinguished human rights expert A.
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  Laying the foundations: the role of data collection in the monitoring systems of development NGOs

  Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 2000

  How can smaller NGOs collect monitoring and evaluation data which data is accurate and meaningful? Where does their capacity need to be improved?The paperargues that the development community as a whole pays insufficient attention to the processes of data collection and analysis that enable organisations to generate accurate, high-quality information at field level.
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  Enhancing the private sector contribution to post-war recovery in poor countries:part 1:comparative analysis

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000

  Violent conflict has become more frequent in developing countries in the last two decades, and international support for peace making has become more important. Yet, post-war reconstruction in these countries has proven to be difficult and prolonged despite high levels of foreign aid.
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  The politics of coherence: humanitarianism and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2000

  Examines the idea of coherence between political and humanitarian action which emerged in the aftermath of the Rwandan experience. It analyses the evolution of the concept in the last decade and its implications for the relationship between humanitarian and political action.
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  Mainstreaming security and safety management in aid agencies

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2001

  Looks critically at the organisational structures, management tools and policies that aid agencies are using, or could use, to improve the overall quality of their safety and security management.The briefing suggests principles for a security policy, identifies types of management systems for strengthening safety and security currently in practice, explores their strengths and weaknesses.
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  Rural Africa at the crossroads: livelihood practices and policies

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000

  This paper synthesises the findings and main policy implications of new empirical studies on changing rural livelihoods from the De-Agrarianisation and Rural Employment (DARE) research programme at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden.Conclusions include the following: Largely as a result of structural adjustment performances, diversification out of agriculture has become th

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