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HPG Working Papers

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Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Working Papers present case studies or background notes which support key aspects of the Group's research projects.

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Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip

Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 December 2012
HPG Working Papers
Simone Haysom and Wasseem el Sarraj
This HPG Working Paper examines the successive waves of forced displacement in Gaza in recent years and explores the consequences of upheaval generated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the citizens of Gaza. Based on hundreds of interviews with residents and those tasked with assisting them the paper considers the many factors that generate displacement, loss of shelter, livelihoods and life in the Gaza Strip.
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A conceptual analysis of livelihoods and resilience: addressing the ‘insecurity of agency’

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 November 2012
HPG Working Papers
Adam Pain and Simon Levine
The debates on how aid investment can be reoriented towards supporting resilience are usually framed in terms of risk, and of people’s ability to cope with shocks. This HPG working paper argues that support to resilience and intelligent monitoring would be better based on a focus on the structural factors that prevent people from investing in their futures.
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Beyond the ‘French Doctors’: The evolution and interpretation of humanitarian action in France

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 October 2012
HPG Working Papers
Eleanor Davey
This Working Paper provides a review of the French experience of humanitarian action over the twentieth century, and of the Francophone literature about this history. It illustrates the importance of national contexts in shaping ideas and discourses about humanitarian affairs, while also reflecting upon their place in a global history.
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Avoiding reality: Land, institutions and humanitarian action in post-earthquake Haiti

Publication - Research reports and studies - 29 September 2012
HPG Working Papers
Simon Levine, Sarah Bailey and Béatrice Boyer, with Cassandra Mehu
This HPG Working Paper examines how international aid agencies struggled with the world of land rights in the response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and finds that many of the difficulties it encountered in coping with reality are a common feature of aid responses. The paper argues that the international humanitarian system must find a way of working in the same complex and imperfect reality that crisis affected people live in. The paper is available in English and French.
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