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    Insufficient evidence? The quality and use of evidence in humanitarian action

    Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action, 2014
    This paper reviews the quality of evidence available today to support humanitarian action. It focuses primarily on evidence generated by the ‘formal international humanitarian system’ through early warning, needs assessment, monitoring and feedback, evaluation and impact assessment.
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    Humanitarian emergency response review

    Department for International Development, UK, 2011
    The scale, frequency and severity of rapid onset humanitarian disasters will continue to grow in the coming years, due to a number of factors - including rapid population growth, especially in disaster prone areas, and changes in sea levels, in global rainfall and stormpatterns. This Independent review of the UK Government's humanitarian response systems argues
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    Helping South Asia cope better with natural disasters: the role of social protection

    Development Policy Review, 2007
    This article reviews major cash transfers to households as a mean of social protection in a number of Asian countries. Looking at Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Pakistan in particular, the author indicates the role which the World Bank has played as a post-disaster donor in those countries, noticing the positive impact of this support on short-term food security and long-term recovery.
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    Shifting sands: the search for ‘coherence’ between political and humanitarian responses to complex emergencies

    Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2000
    The early 1990s have seen increasing calls to enhance the coherence of political and humanitarian action. This report from ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group examines the origins and evolution of the concept of coherence and its implications in practice. The report details the findings of a six-month study on the politics of coherence.
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    Round Table 7 on situations of fragility and conflict: discussion note – session 3: improving the delivery of international assistance for the reduction of fragility and conflict

    United Nations Development Group, 2008
    Over the past ten years United Nations’ (UN) peacekeeping operations have largely increased in number and importance. This short discussion note from the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness highlights discussions from Round Table 7 on how to strengthen common approaches and improve division of labour among donor countries.
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    Building back better: post-earthquake responses and educational challenges in Pakistan

    International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2008
    A powerful earthquake struck the northern areas of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan on 8 October, 2005. The timing of the quake and the low quality of school construction were factors in its major impact on the education sector.
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    ‘Civil society with guns is not civil society’: aid, security and civil society In Afghanistan

    Centre for Civil Society, LSE, 2008
    Afghanistan has become the first theatre in which the USA’s seemingly contradictory goals of the War on Terror and the promotion of liberal democracy and free markets are being played out to their full. This paper examines the intensified convergence of aid, security and foreign policy goals since 9/11 and its effects on civil society in the context of Afghanistan.
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    When disaster strikes: a guide to assessing seed system security

    Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, 2008
    Intervening in seed systems is serious business. Seed systems are at the heart of agricultural production and determines what farmers grow and whether they will have a harvest. Badly designed and poorly implemented seed aid during a crisis harms farmers, making them even more vulnerable to uncertainties.
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    Vulnerability to hunger: improving food crisis responses in fragile states

    United Nations University, 2008
    This paper examines the imperative for improved classification and analysis of food crises in different fragile contexts. Recognising the persistence and protracted nature of food crises, the paper questions how prevention and response mechanisms could be improved to help decisionmakers better address the underlying causes of vulnerability and hunger.
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    Improving drought response in pastoral regions of Ethiopia

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    This study provides an overview of the timing, appropriateness and efficacy of interventions in response to the drought that affected the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia in 2005/2006. It identifies mechanisms to initiate more timely and appropriate interventions to protect and support pastoral livelihoods and explores donor interest in resourcing these changes.

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