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   UK International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone at the ASAZA gender-based violence centre.

   International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone listening to women at the ASAZA gender-based violence centre.
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Emily Travis/DFID
   Source: Flickr
   

   Good practice in preventing and responding to gender-based violence in humanitarian contexts

   Projects - April 2013 to June 2013

   This project seeks to map and critically analyse evidence of good practice in prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian contexts which can support humanitarian practitioners and policy makers to improve the quality of GBV programming in the field.  The literature review will also inform the Humanitarian Practice Network’s (HPN) and DFID’s understanding of the scope and quality of the current evidence base of good practice in GBV prevention and response and recommend areas where additional research and evidence is needed. 

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   Mauritanian herder seeks pasture during 2012 Sahel food security crisis

   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam
   Source: Flickr
   

   HPG Integrated Programme 2013-15

   Projects - March 2013 to March 2015

   This is the eleventh Integrated Programme (IP) of work proposed for funding by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG).The Integrated Programme gives intellectual consistency to the research work of HPG, helping to ensure HPG’s effectiveness and providing a clear basis for the mobilisation of funds.

   The projects constitute the core of HPG’s research work in 2013–15, combining policy-relevant research and engagement, humanitarian practice, academic engagement and a vigorous and extensive public affairs programme of events, conferences and media work.

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3. Development of operational guidance and SOPs for cash-based interventions

   Projects - March 2013 to December 2013

   Operational trends have triggered renewed consideration of how UNHCR can best maximise the potential for using cash-based interventions.

   A focus on seeking alternatives to refugee camps, and the increasingly urban nature of displacement crises, require effective ways of reaching out to those in need of protection and assistance. In this context, UNHCR has adopted a pro-active approach to the use and scaling-up of cash-based interventions in its operations, and published “An Introduction to Cash-based Interventions in UNHCR Operations”.

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4. Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance - Phase 2

   Projects - January 2012 to April 2014

   The ACCRA consortium (made up of Oxfam GB (lead), Care International, ODI, Save the Children Alliance and World Vision) has been operational since November 2009. The purpose of ACCRA is to increase the use of evidence by governments (specifically in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique) and other development and humanitarian actors in developing and implementing policies and interventions that improve poor people's adaptive capacity, with a specific focus on climate related hazards, change and variability – both in the short and long-term.

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   Community vulnerability analysis involving the women of Thaung Tan village, Myanmar

   A community vulnerability analysis involving the women of Thaung Tan village, Myanmar, is one of many disaster risk reduction activities being undertaken in Dedayer township. The town’s disaster risk reduction work includes developing community risk reduction action plans, raising public awareness, first aid practice, installing radios to provide early warning and building facilities such as bridges and jetties.
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Dedaye Team / Oxfam
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   Resilience and humanitarian action

   Projects - April 2011 to March 2013

   Resilience and resilient livelihoods are becoming a focus of humanitarian and development agencies seeking to address the underlying fragilities that turn shocks and stresses into humanitarian crises. It is not clear what makes people resilient in protracted crises and how resilience can be ‘built’. 
   

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   Durum. Dissemination session to JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) combatants.

   Durum. Dissemination session to JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) combatants.
   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: CICR/HEGER, Boris
   Source: ICRC
   

   Humanitarian negotiations with armed non-state actors

   Projects - April 2011 to March 2013

   Over the past two decades, humanitarian actors have expanded the geographic scope of their work to more challenging and dangerous environments.

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   Palestine Arab Refugees - UNRWA 1959

   UNRWA's Gouraud Camp in Baalbek town, 90 kms. northeast of Beirut, includes an old military barracks. It has 3070 inhabitants. 01/04/1959. Baalbek, Lebanon
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: UN Photo/JG
   Source: UN Multimedia
   

   Global history of modern humanitarian action

   Projects - April 2011 to March 2013

   This research project (previously known as Moving Forward) seeks to identify and understand the principal changes in policy, practice and institutional architecture that the humanitarian sector has undergone since the beginning of the twentieth century.
   
   The aim is to help the sector better understand its history and make greater use of historical analysis and lessons in current discussions and debates aimed at improving humanitarian action.
   

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8. HPG Integrated Programme 2011-13

   Projects - April 2011 to March 2013

   For the 2011–13 Integrated Programme, HPG proposes to focus on specific issues of particular current significance to the sector, and which reflect the expertise within the team.The new research agenda builds on previous work as well as adding new strands of analysis:

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   Port-au-Prince. ICRC delegate meets with Colonels from the Brazilian battalion of MINUSTA.

   Port-au-Prince. Un délégué du CICR s'entretient avec des colonels d'un Bataillon brésilien de la MINUSTA. Port-au-Prince. ICRC delegate meets with Colonels from the Brazilian battalion of MINUSTA. The earthquake which ocurred in the Port-au-Prince region on the 12th of January 2010 is the worst earthquake the country has ever had to endure.
   License: ICRC permission
   Credit: CICR/KOKIC, Marko
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   Civil-military coordination: the search for common ground

   Projects - April 2011 to March 2013

   Effective civil–military coordination is essential to the humanitarian objective of saving lives and alleviating suffering. However, in recent years civil–military coordination has faced a number of major and often interconnected challenges, including expanded international intervention in fragile and conflict-affected states, the increased frequency and scale of natural disasters related to climate change and the rapid proliferation of humanitarian actors.
   

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10. Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance Programme in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda

    Projects - November 2009 to October 2011

    The Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) project was established in 2009 with the goal of improving poor and vulnerable communities’ ability to adapt to change. ACCRA specifically addresses the longer-term problems associated with climate change, increased populations and competition for resources. 

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