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  Cost-recovery in the health sector: an inappropriate policy in complex emergencies

  Humanitarian Practice Network, ODI, 2004

  The introduction of cost-sharing mechanisms in health care programmes in complex emergencies is a growing concern for many relief agencies: cost-recovery seems in opposition to the basic humanitarian principle of allocation of assistance based on need alone.
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  Aid and conflict: the policy coherence challenge

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This paper explores the security dimensions of policy coherence for development (PCD) work, arguing that the future of aid lies in the intersection between security and development. Illustrating the interlinkages between security and development, the paper reports that there is growing evidence of a two-way causality.
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  Guidelines for HIV/AIDS interventions in emergency settings

  2002

  At the end of 2001, over 70 different countries experienced an emergency situation, resulting in over 50 million persons being affected worldwide. Conditions that define a complex emergency (conflict, social instability, poverty and powerlessness) are also the conditions that favour the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
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  Botswana’s strategy to combat HIV/AIDS: lessons for Africa and President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS relief

  Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, 2004

  This report, based on a conference held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), outlines the history and pertinent issues relating to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana.
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  GM food aid: Africa denied choice again?

  Earthlife Africa, 2004

  This publication by the Africa Center for Biosafety, Earthlife Africa, Environmental Rights Action - Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Grain and SafeAge makes the case that non-GM food aid is both possible and desirable.
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  The politics of poverty: aid in the new cold war

  Christian Aid, 2004

  This report sets out mistakes that have been made in the past in relation to the politicisation of aid. Based on case studies in Afghanistan and Uganda, it also shows how they are being repeated. The authors argue that the growing politicisation of aid threatens to obscure the goal of poverty reduction.
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  Can Food-for-Work Programmes reduce vulnerability?

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2003

  This paper looks at how, when and why Food for Work (FFW) programmes can reduce vulnerability. Is it most effective as short-term insurance, a longer-term rehabilitation and development intervention, or both? The paper argues for the subjecting FFW transfers to an initial geographic targeting based on the three criteria of food and labour market performance and general morbidity status.
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  How to fight, how to kill: child soldiers in Liberia

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report explores the human rights situation of child soldiers in Liberia through a series of interviews with former and current child soldiers undertaken in the country in late 2003.The report argues that approximately 15,000 boys and girls under the age of eighteen, some as young as nine and ten years old, were involved in the fighting in Liberia.
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  U.S. international food assistance report 2002

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2004

  This report presents the actions undertaken by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to promote global food security during 2002. It presents the case for aid for food security, analyses each of the international food assistance policy programmes and components, and explores the benefits of such aid to the U.S.
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  Surviving school: education for refugee children from Rwanda 1994-1996

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This study explores how education in situations of post-conflict emergency can be established and maintained as a vital psychological support to children and communities. Specifically, the study investigates how education for refugee children emerged and developed after the genocide in Rwanda caused hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring countries.

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