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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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Overview

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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Briefing paper

Delivering the Agenda: Addressing chronic underdevelopment in Kenya’s arid lands

16/05/2006

3 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Due to economic and political marginalisation, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) are today the most under-developed areas of Kenya. The pastoral inhabitants of these lands have both the right and the ability to maintain a decent livelihood but have been denied an appropriate and effective development policy for decades. The current drought-related crisis has […]

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Briefing paper

Making the Case: A national drought contingency fund for Kenya

16/05/2006

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The critical failure in Kenya’s system of drought management is its slow response. A national drought contingency fund should be established to ensure timely, appropriate, and adequate intervention aimed at mitigating the impact of drought-related crises. Recurrent drought may be an inevitable fact of life in Kenya, but the human suffering it causes is not.

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Briefing paper

A Recipe for Disaster: Will the Doha Round fail to deliver for development?

01/04/2006

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Trade policy

Overview

As yet another deadline approaches in the Doha Round of trade negotiations, the chances of a deal being done this year that helps developing countries are looking increasingly slim. Aggressive demands by rich countries mean that, far from being able to pursue reforms that will lift people out of poverty, poor countries are having to […]

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Briefing paper

Public Health at Risk: A US free trade agreement could threaten access to medicines in Thailand

01/04/2006

7 documents

29 pages long

Languages: English, French, Indonesian, Khmer, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese

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Overview

New stringent drug patent and marketing rules being negotiated in a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the US and Thailand would limit competition and reduce access to affordable medicines in Thailand. This would threaten the future of existing successful Thai HIV/AIDS treatment programmes, which rely on inexpensive generic drugs, and thus deprive thousands of people […]

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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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Overview

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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Briefing paper

Back to Work: How people are recovering their livelihoods 12 months after the tsunami

20/12/2005

3 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The tsunami of 26 December 2004 devastated the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Many were living in poverty before the tsunami; others were suddenly plunged into poverty. The affected communities are determined to rebuild their lives, and the generosity of donors has meant that aid agencies have been able to help them. Many […]

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Case study

Beyond the Mainstream: Education for nomadic and pastoralist girls and boys

19/12/2005

4 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

This paper illustrates the challenges involved in providing good-quality gender-equitable education for children who are beyond the reach of mainstream, formal education. It focuses on children of nomadic and pastoralist households, identifying specific issues in providing schooling for them, and drawing on lessons from approaches and initiatives by various agencies (government and non-government). The paper […]

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Case study

Making it Happen: Political will for gender equality in education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Why do some countries succeed in promoting gender parity and equality in education while others do not? The answer often given is ‘political will’. All too often, however, no further explanation is offered. There has been little effort to understand why governments are unwilling or unable to change their policies and priorities to achieve equal […]

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Case study

Developing Capacity to Achieve Gender Equality in Education

19/12/2005

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Overview

Failure to achieve gender equality in education is often blamed on ‘weak capacity’. This paper illustrates the ways in which individual, organisational, and institutional capacity all play important roles in producing positive results for girls. It is essential to recognise that these different forms of capacity are related, in order to prevent the disappearance of […]

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