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Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS: A practical approach to mainstreaming

15/02/2007

1 documents

126 pages long

Languages: English

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This manual will help field staff to mainstream HIV and AIDS in humanitarian emergencies. It assumes some knowledge of humanitarian programming, and is intended to build staff skills in addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection and the consequences of HIV and AIDS, particularly in rapid-onset emergencies. The authors draw on experience in […]

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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The good enough guide

09/02/2007

13 documents

80 pages long

Languages: Arabic, Bangla, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu

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What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessment and profiling. Its […]

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Leaving Disasters Behind: A guide to disaster risk reduction in Ethiopia

15/01/2007

8 documents

210 pages long

Languages: English

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This book is intended for staff from government agencies, non-government organizations, academic and research institutions and also donors who work in or for the disaster-prone areas of Ethiopia. The book will also be useful for those working in other disaster-prone regions in Africa and beyond. It provides guidance on how to reduce disaster risk using […]

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Africa Up in Smoke? 2: An update report on Africa and global warming from the working group on climate change and development

30/10/2006

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Too much or too little rain can be a matter of life or death in Africa. At different times and in different places across the continent, climate change threatens both. This briefing brings up to date the original report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Africa – Up in smoke?, released in […]

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Up In Smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean: The threat from climate change to the environment and human development

29/08/2006

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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The report confirms that largely regular and predictable temperature and rainfall patterns, are changing, becoming less predictable and often more extreme. It catalogues the impact of climate change and environmental degradation ranging from drought in the Amazon to floods in Haiti and elsewhere; vanishing glaciers in Colombia to extreme cold in the Andes; and hurricanes, […]

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Effective Consultancies in Development and Humanitarian Programmes

01/07/2006

1 documents

112 pages long

Languages: English

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This guide to good consultancy practice is unusual in two respects: its focus is consultancy work in the international development sector; and it describes the process from the perspectives of both clients and consultants, helping each side to understand what the other does. Using detailed checklists, the authors explain the stages of a typical consultancy, […]

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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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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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Beyond Access: Transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

01/09/2005

1 documents

266 pages long

Languages: English

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In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls’ access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social […]

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Transitional Settlement, Displaced Populations

13/06/2005

1 documents

240 pages long

Languages: English

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It is often the national or regional coordinators of organisations who make decisions about whether to support the building of a refugee camp or to support refugees living with host families. Technical specialists, such as physical planners, are not always available until later on in the emergency. Compared with other sectors of response, there has […]

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