HPG Working Papers

HPG Working Paper • March 2008
El Salvador : a case study in the role of the affected state in humanitarian action
Patricia Weiss Fagen
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HPG Working Paper • December 2007
The land question: Sudan's peace nemesis
Sara Pantuliano
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HPG Working Paper • December 2007
Between war and peace: land and humanitarian action in Colombia
Samir Elhawary
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HPG Working Paper • November 2007
Land rights in Angola: poverty and plenty
Conor Foley
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HPG Working Paper • September 2007
Mozambique: a case study in the role of the affected state in humanitarian action
Conor Foley
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HPG Working Paper Paper • July 2007
Corruption perceptions and risks in humanitarian assistance: an Afghanistan case study
Kevin Savage, Lorenzo Delesgues, Ellen Martin and Gul Ulfat
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HPG Working Paper Paper • June 2007
Business engagement in humanitarian relief: key trends and policy implications
Andrea Binder and Jan Martin Witte
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HPG Background Paper • June 2007
Private financing of humanitarian action 1995-2005
Laura Altinger and Virginia Tortella
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HPG Working Paper • June 2007
Drawing a line under the crisis: reconciling returnee land access and security in post-conflict Rwanda
John Bruce
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HPG Working Paper • April 2007
Livelihoods in crisis: a longitudinal study in Pader, Uganda - Inception Report
Celia Petty and Kevin Savage
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HPG Background Paper • April 2007
Corruption perceptions and risks in humanitarian assistance: a Liberia case study
Kevin Savage with Mulbah Jackollie, D. Maxim Kumeh and Edwin Dorbor
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HPG Background Papers • February 2007
Between the CAPs: agricultural policies, programming and the market in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ian Christoplos
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HPG Background Paper • December 2006
Humanitarian protection in Uganda: a Trojan horse?
Andrew Bonwick
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HPG Background Paper • December 2006
Protection in Colombia: a bottom-up approach
Andrew Bonwick
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HPG Background Paper • November 2006
Remittances in crises: a case study from Pakistan
Kevin Savage and Abid Suleri
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HPG Background Paper • October 2006
Learning from cash responses to the tsunami: case studies
Lesley Adams and Retno Winahyu
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HPG Background Paper • September 2006
Humanitarian action in the new security environment: policy and operational implications in Somalia and Somaliland
Joakim Gundel
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HPG Background Paper • September 2006
Humanitarian action in the new security environment: policy and operational implications in Afghanistan
Farahnaz Karim
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HPG Background Paper • September 2006
Humanitarian action in the new security environment: policy and operational implications in Iraq
Alexandre Carle and Hakim Chkam
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HPG Background Paper • September 2006
Livelihoods, migration and remittance flows in times of crisis and conflict: case-studies from Darfur, Sudan
Helen Young
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HPG Background Paper • September 2006
Seed vouchers in emergency programming: lessons from Ethiopia and Mozambique
Catherine Longley
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HPG Background Paper • August 2006
The role of remittances in crisis: an Aceh research study
Treena Wu
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HPG Background Paper • August 2006
Remittances in crisis: Sri Lanka after the tsunami
Priya Deshingkar and M. M. M. Aheeyar
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HPG Background Paper • April 2006
Migrant remittances in the context of crisis in Somali society: A case study of Hargeisa
Anna Lindley
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HPG Background Paper • April 2006
Remittances in crises: A Haiti case study
Patricia Fagen
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HPG Background Paper • September 2005
Aid donorship in the Gulf States
Lin Cotterrell and Adele Harmer
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HPG Background Paper • September 2005
India’s official humanitarian aid programme
Gareth Price
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HPG Background Paper • September 2005
Aid donorship in Central Europe
Sven Grimm and Adele Harmer
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HPG Background Paper • September 2005
Aid donorship in Asia
Lin Cotterrell and Adele Harmer
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HPG Background Paper • July 2005
Through a livelihoods lens: a case study on the impact of humanitarian assistance in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Elizabeth Stites and Sue Lautze
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HPG Background Paper • July 2005
Breaking the poverty cycle: a case study of cash interventions in Ethiopia
Lesley Adams and Emebet Kebede
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HPG Background Paper • July 2005
Relief assistance at the margins: meanings and perceptions of ‘dependency’ in northern Kenya
Jeremy Lind
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HPG Background Paper • July 2005
Poverty, power and relief assistance: meanings and perceptions of ‘dependency’ in Ethiopia
Jeremy Lind and Teriessa Jalleta
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HPG Background Paper • June 2005
Cash transfer programmes in Afghanistan: a desk review of current policy and practice
Charles-Antoine Hofmann
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HPG Background Paper • February 2005
Cash and vouchers in emergencies
Paul Harvey
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HPG Background Paper • July 2004
European Union policy approaches in protracted crises
Tasneem Mowjee
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HPG Background Paper • June 2004
Assessing the Impact of Humanitarian Assistance: A Review of Methods and Practices in the Health Sector
Les Roberts
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HPG Background Paper • June 2004
Assessing the Impact of Humanitarian Assistance: A Review of Methods and Practices in the Food and Nutrition Sector
Jeremy Shoham
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HPG Background Paper • April 2004
HIV/AIDS and Humanitarian Action: Insights from US and Kenya-based agencies
Laura L. Murphy
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HPG Background Paper • March 2004
Good humanitarian donorship and the European Union: issues and options
Joanna Macrae and Adele Harmer
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HPG Background Paper • September 2003
Needs and Vulnerability in the Balkans: The Case of Serbia
Charles-Antoine Hofmann
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HPG Background Paper • September 2003
The Southern Africa Crisis: A Critical Review of Needs Assessment Practice and Its Influence on Resource Allocation
James Darcy, Andre Griekspoor, Adele Harmer and Fiona Watson
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HPG Background Paper • September 2003
Measuring humanitarian Needs: Need Assessment and Resource Allocation in Southern Sudan and Somalia Mark Bradbury, Charles-Antoine Hofmann, Stephanie Maxwell, Dineke Venekamp and Abigail Montani
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HPG Background Paper • February 2003
Profits and poverty: aid, livelihoods and conflict in Afghanistan
Michael Bhatia, Jonathan Goodhand et al.
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HPG Background Paper • February 2003
Towards a politically informed humanitarian response to conflict: findings from Sierra Leone
Richard Fanthorpe
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HPG Background Paper • February 2003
Ni Paix Ni Guerre: the Political Economy of Low-Level Conflict in the Casamance
Martin Evans
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HPG Background Paper • February 2003
Fortunes of war: the Coltan Trade in the Kivus
Stephen Jackson
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HPG Background Paper • December 2002
Accountability and influence in the European Community Humanitarian Aid Office
Tasneem Mowjee and Joanna Macrae
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HPG Background Paper • December 2002
The US and the 'bilateralisation' of humanitarian response
Abby Stoddard