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Guidelines and toolkits

Water Treatment Guidelines For Use in Emergencies

25/04/2006

1 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The object of water treatment is to provide potable water, i.e. pathogen free and chemically safe, which is low in physical impurities and […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Water Filtration Manual

25/04/2006

1 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. The equipment is designed to be used with any or all of the following Oxfam water equipment: Water Storage equipment, Water Coagulation and […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Malaria Control Manual

25/04/2006

1 documents

161 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is meant for all Oxfam staff who may be involved in initiating a malaria control project in humanitarian situations specifically although much of the background information will be useful for longer term programmes. Knowledge of malaria control is important for Public Health Promoters, Water and Sanitation Engineers and Project Co-ordinators and Managers in […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Integrating and Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in Emergencies

25/04/2006

1 documents

138 pages long

Languages: English

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These guidelines are meant for all Oxfam staff who may be involved in implementing a humanitarian response or who may be collaborating with partner organisations in humanitarian situations. Knowledge of HIV and AIDS is important for Public Health Promoters, Water and Sanitation Engineers, Food and Nutrition specialists and Project Co-ordinators and Managers in order to […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Guidelines for Public Health Promotion in Emergencies

25/04/2006

1 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English

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Public Health Promotion is the planned and systematic attempt to enable people to take action to prevent or mitigate disease. It combines insider knowledge (what do people know, do and want) with outsider knowledge (e.g. the causes of disease, epidemiology, vector control and communications and learning strategies). Public Health Promotion can be used to target […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Water Distribution Manual

24/04/2006

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual is part of a series of guides devised by the Oxfam Public Health Engineering Team to help provide a reliable water supply for populations affected by conflict or natural disaster. Wherever possible, water supplies in emergency conditions should be obtained from underground sources by exploitation of springs, tubewells, or dug wells. No filtration […]

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Book

Protection: An ALNAP Guide for humanitarian agencies

01/04/2006

2 documents

120 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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This guide gives essential advice and insights to humanitarian practitioners who are involved in providing safety and protecting vulnerable people in war and disaster. It provides a framework for responsibility and action, which helps clarify conceptual issues and helps humanitarian field workers position themselves vis-a-vis other actors who have overlapping mandates. A practical schema is […]

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Journal article

Art and disarmament: turning arms into ploughshares in Mozambique

01/04/2006

10 pages long

Free access through journal website

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Following the Renamo/Frelimo conflict and the 1992 Rome Accord ending hostilities, the Christian Council of Mozambique undertook to remove arms from the civilian population by trading them for development tools. The weapons were given to artists associated with a collective in the capital, Maputo. The weapons were cut into pieces and converted to sculptures that […]

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Briefing note

UN Arms Embargoes: An overview of the last ten years

12/03/2006

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Despite the fact that every one of the 13 United Nations arms embargoes imposed in the last decade has been systematically violated, only a handful of the many arms embargo breakers named in UN sanctions reports has been successfully prosecuted. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, between 1990 and 2001 there were 57 […]

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Book

Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies

01/02/2006

2 documents

112 pages long

Languages: English

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In emergencies, distributing cash can often meet people’s immediate needs more quickly and appropriately than the direct distribution of commodities. Cash gives people choices and thereby preserves their dignity. Commodity distribution often poses logistical problems, and – in the case of food aid – it may disrupt local markets. But among humanitarian agencies there are […]

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