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Media briefing

Climate Change and Future Impacts on Food Security

30/09/2011

1 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing has been written in response to the drought in the Horn of Africa, which is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. While severe drought has undoubtedly led to the huge scale of the disaster, this crisis has been caused by people and policies, as much as by weather patterns. This […]

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Media briefing

Disaster Risk Reduction: Fundamental to saving lives and reducing poverty

30/09/2011

1 documents

7 pages long

Languages: English

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This briefing has been written in response to the drought in the Horn of Africa, which is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. While severe drought has undoubtedly led to the huge scale of the disaster, this crisis has been caused by people and policies, as much as by weather patterns. An […]

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Education resource

Dealing with Disasters: Teaching activities for 11-14 year olds

28/09/2011

11 documents

Languages: English

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Why do disasters happen? Can they be prevented? What can be done to help? This cross-curricular resource for 11-14 year olds features detailed background information, case study material, and lesson plans to help you tackle these questions in your classroom. Activities cover floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and famine. There is also some useful case study material […]

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Briefing note

East Africa Food Crisis: Poor rains, poor response

20/07/2011

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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East Africa is facing the worst food crisis of the 21st Century. Across Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, 12 million people are in dire need of food, clean water, and basic sanitation. Loss of life on a massive scale is a very real risk, and the crisis is set to worsen over the coming months, particularly […]

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Evaluation report

Evaluation of Water and Sanitation Response for Vulnerable Populations in Lower Juba, Southern Somalia

01/08/2008

2 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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The Water and Sanitation Response for Vulnerable Populations in Lower Juba, Southern Somalia’ targeted displaced people and those affected by drought, between 1st November 2007 and 31st July 2008. The project targeted 1,100 households in Afmadow District. It sought to meet humanitarian needs and strengthen livelihoods of ought stricken pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, and also to […]

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Case study

Local Resources for Development, the experience of Somaliland’s General Assistance and Volunteer Organization (GAVO)

14/06/2008

1 documents

3 pages long

Languages: English

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With minimal assistance at a key point in its development, GAVO evolved from a local charitable and service organisation grounded in and supported by the local community into a strong public outreach and advocacy organisation advising Oxfam on government/civil society relations throughout the region.

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Briefing note

Ammunition: The Fuel of Conflict

15/06/2006

4 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Hundreds of thousands of people are killed each year through the misuse of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law. Small arms ammunition is the fuel that keeps many of the world’s conflicts raging. While small arms do not themselves cause conflict, they make it much […]

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Journal article

Islam and development: opportunities and constraints for Somali women

01/03/1999

4 pages long

Free access through journal website

Islam and development: opportunities and constraints for Somali women

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Economic and social crisis can force communities to seek refuge in religious faith; in such situations, communities become more susceptible to the influence of groups which use religious beliefs as a means to gain power. Sadia Ahmed describes the effects on women’s lives of the rise of Islamic extremism in Somalia since the early 1990s. […]

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Journal article

Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

01/11/1998

7 pages long

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Circumcision’, culture, and health-care provision in Tower Hamlets, London

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Tower Hamlets has a sizeable Somali community, who maintain close links to their culture and country of origin. About 80 per cent of Somali women are estimated to have undergone ‘female circumcision’. The authors carried out research to assess whether British health services meet Somali women’s health-care needs. Interestingly, they found that reasons given to […]

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Book

The Somali Conflict: Prospects for peace

01/01/1994

6 documents

156 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper was commissioned from Mark Bradbury by Oxfam (UK and Ireland), with the main aim of identifying practical ways in which the international group of Oxfam’s might contribute to the peace-making process in Somalia and Somaliland. When the paper was subsequently edited for publication, the recommendations which were originally specific to Oxfam, were generalised […]

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