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Aid partnership in the Bougainville conflict: the case of a local women’s NGO and its donors

01/06/2006

12 pages long

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This article documents lessons learned from a study of aid partnerships in post-conflict development and peace building in Bougainville. It examines how donor agencies, in this case the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), contributed to the successes and failures of the Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency (LNWDA). […]

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Funding development in Rwanda: the survivors’ perspective

01/06/2006

6 pages long

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Why has the humanitarian world already forgotten the people of Rwanda? And why do the survivors of the Rwandan genocide continue to be sidelined, particularly those women who were raped and deliberately infected with HIV/AIDS in a campaign of systematic sexual violence? The focus of humanitarian organisations shifted from Rwanda after 1994, and these women […]

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Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: tsunami response in Sri Lanka

01/06/2006

11 pages long

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This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, […]

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Who really protects civilians?

01/06/2006

8 pages long

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Current debate tends to suggest that the protection of civilians is something ‘done to’ the passive recipients of international largesse. Whether in terms of macro-level interventions of the UN Security Council or micro-level attempts to reduce the negative side-effects of relief action, those in need of protection are rarely seen as key players in their […]

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Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

01/06/2006

12 pages long

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Women, gender, and conflict: making the connections

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This review essay explores the need to make the roles of women and of men visible in order to understand the different ways in which they are involved in, and affected by, armed conflict; and also to examine the ways in which gender roles, the relations between women and men, are changed during and as […]

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Editorial

01/06/2006

5 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.

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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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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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Guidelines and toolkits

Water Storage Manual

26/04/2006

1 documents

22 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. Storage tanks are required for collection of water from springs or water produced from continuous flow water treatment systems, e.g. from upflow clarifiers […]

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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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