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  UNICEF humanitarian action report 2009

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2009

  This 2009 UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report is an appeal for children and women affected by emergencies in 36 countries in the six UNICEF regions.
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  Asylum and migration in the Mashrek

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2008

  Refugees and migrants in the Mashrek countries (defined as Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria for the purposes of this report) are at risk of unlawful deportation, ill treatment and exploitation.
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  Providing aid in insecure environments: 2009 Update. Trends in violence against aid workers and the operational response

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2009

  Attacks against aid workers are not new. Fragile, insecure environments frequently expose humanitarian operatives to a myriad of threats – whether they be political, economic or aggression encountered due to the respective nature of 'the work'.
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  Where to now? Agency expulsions in Sudan: consequences and next steps

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2009

  Here ODI considers the impacts of the Sudanese government decision to expel a broad swathe of aid organisations from the country in March 2009. They detail a long list of potential consequences for those Sudanese in need of assistance. For instance:
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  Context-sensitive engagement: lessons learned from Swiss experiences in South Asia for aid effectiveness in fragile scenarios

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2008

  This paper was written for the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana and critically assesses Switzerland’s long-term experiences in South Asia particularly in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The authors evaluate the work conducted in these countries, and distil lessons for engagement in fragile, conflict countries.
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  Manual for the health care of children in humanitarian emergencies

  World Health Organization, 2008

  The acute phase of an emergency is defined by crude mortality rate and persists as long as the crude mortality rate is at least double the baseline mortality rate, that is, as long as there are twice as many people dying per day compared to the normal rate of death.
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  Aid reform: addressing conflict and situations of fragility

  CARE International, 2009

  Violent conflict and ‘situations of fragility’ represent significant challenges for aid effectiveness. Applying traditional development approaches in an unchanged fashion in such contexts simply does not work. Aid can have unintended interactions with conflict both to exacerbate or mitigate violence or the potential for violence.
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  Economic incentives for peacebuilding

  Program for states and security, 2008

  This paper assesses and presents what social science literature tells us about economic incentives for peacebuilding. It mentions that a variety of such incentives exists in post-civil war situations.
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  Linking mine action and development: humanitarian and development NGOs

  Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, 2008

  Landmine action is a key component of sustainable development.
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  A rethink on the use of aid mechanisms in health sector early recovery

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2009

  States emerging from protracted crises struggle to provide basic services. This is no more crucial than in the health sector where vulnerable ‘post-conflict’ populations are frequently in dire need of care.

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