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Guidelines for Conducting Joint Evaluations of Humanitarian Action

01/04/2011

3 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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A joint evaluation is when different agencies work together to evaluate and review their response to an emergency. This helps agencies increase accountability and transparency, to learn from one another, and to coordinate future responses. Joint evaluations also provide a place where knowledge, resources and tools can be shared among peer agencies and long-term cooperative […]

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

01/03/2011

13 pages long

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Constructing ‘modern gendered civilised’ women and men: gender-mainstreaming in refugee camps

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Gender mainstreaming in humanitarian programmes with forced migrants is based on a belief that such an approach will lead to greater gender equality, while raising the status of women through their ’empowerment’. In this article, I focus on the activities of international and local humanitarian organisations in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. I argue that the […]

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Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

01/03/2011

12 pages long

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Remittances and transnational families in Italy and The Philippines: breaking the global care chain

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This article describes the situation over the last 30 years of women migrants from the Philippines in Italy, who have been caught in what many have called the ‘global care chain’. The pressure to send remittances back home is locking these women even further into the global care chain, with not only economic, but social […]

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Churches, mosques, and condoms: understanding successful HIV and AIDS interventions by faith-based organisations

01/02/2011

14 pages long

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There are an estimated 33 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide. While national education campaigns have been successful in providing a broad platform of awareness of HIV and AIDS, within some countries faith-based organisations (FBOs) have assumed an important role in educating and supporting local communities to reduce HIV transmission. This […]

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Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions

01/02/2011

17 pages long

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Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to be based largely on untested assumptions about community participation and responsibility. Drawing on case studies on potable-water management and home-based […]

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Analysing cultural proximity: Islamic Relief Worldwide and Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

01/02/2011

12 pages long

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Based on fieldwork carried out on Islamic Relief’s relief programme for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, this article contributes to the debate on whether Muslim aid agencies bring added value when working with Muslim beneficiaries in Muslim areas. The author explores the significance of religion in relations between actors in the aid process and argues that […]

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The roles of, and relationships between, expatriates, volunteers, and local development workers

01/02/2011

11 pages long

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This article reports on exploratory research based on interviews with expatriate and local aid workers employed by local and international NGOs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Thematic analysis of the interviews found that personnel were placed in groups based on their job category – consultant, volunteer, or permanent staff – regardless of experience. These categories logically […]

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Micro-insurance through corporate-NGO partnerships in West Bengal: opportunities and constraints

01/02/2011

7 pages long

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This Practical Note examines the nascent micro-insurance sector in West Bengal, paying particular attention to the corporate-NGO partnership model for micro-insurance distribution, which has been enabled by India’s unique regulatory framework. We challenge the popular construction of this model as a ‘win-win’ for all parties by analysing conflicting understandings of micro-insurance schemes and their purposes […]

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Humanicrats’: the social production of compassion, indifference, and hostility in long-term camps

01/02/2011

11 pages long

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Why do front-line workers not always display humanitarian compassion towards people living in camps? In seeking an answer, this article conceptualises the ‘humanicrat’: a front-line worker who is part humanitarian and part bureaucrat, each with typological emotions. Case studies from NGO teams in long-term camps in northern Ugandan illustrate the social production of emotions. The […]

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Handle with care: engaging with faith-based organisations in development

01/02/2011

8 pages long

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Religious faith has always had an intense but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with faith-based organisations (FBOs). This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful – but flammable – fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors therefore need to handle them with understanding and […]

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