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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

Events: Conference

Strengthening sub-national governance for poverty reduction: innovations and impact

Event - Conference - 11 September 2008

This Conference seeks to highlight the strategic and practical experiences, best practice, and lessons learned by prominent national organizations and international development agencies in promoting more effective and impactful sub-national governance aimed at reducing extreme poverty and inequality. Experiences from Latin America will be featured –with an exploration of their relevance in other parts of the developing world.

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Politics and Poverty: New Frontiers for Donor Agencies

Event - Conference - 6 June 2008

This Conference seeks to highlight the strategic and practical experiences, best practice and lessons learned by donor agencies in Latin America in promoting pro-poor development agendas aimed at reducing extreme poverty and inequality - and address their relevance in other parts of the developing world.

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Unchartered territory: Land, conflict and humanitarian action

Event - Conference - 7 February 2008 09:00 - 17:30 (GMT+00)

This conference provided a space for policymakers, academics and practitioners to share their experiences of land tenure issues and build up an understanding of how humanitarian organisations respond to them in their assistance and programming.

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Uncharted territory: Land, conflict and humanitarian action

Event - Conference - 7 February 2007 09:30 - 17:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

This conference seeks to provide a space for policymakers, academics and practitioners to share their experiences of land tenure issues and build up an understanding of how humanitarian organisations respond to them in their assistance and programming. 

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Budget Support and Beyond: can the Paris agenda on aid be delivered?

Event - Conference - 6 - 7 November 2006

Can donors do more to support progressive political and economic change in poor countries? Is a new approach needed to selecting the most appropriate mix of aid instruments in a given context? What are country-level public financial management reforms delivering in terms of a better context for utilising aid? Can attention to donor agency incentives and non-budget support instruments help deliver improvements in aid effectiveness at country level?

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Distribution of food and cash Lesotho
Distribution of food and cash Lesotho

Distribution at a food and cash constituency in Mohale's Loek, Lesotho
License: ODI given rights
Credit: Rachel Slater and Rebecca Holmes
Source: ODI

Cash and Emergency Relief

Event - Conference - 19 January 2006

The conference aimed to provide a forum to raise awareness within the humanitarian system of the growing body of experience with cash responses. It provided an opportunity for debate at a senior policy level about when and where cash responses are likely to be appropriate and what changes might be needed in the structure of humanitarian response for cash to be more widely considered where it is appropriate. It aimed to identify practical next steps for taking forward work on cash approaches such as the development of guidelines and tools for practitioners as well as broader donor policies.

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