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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
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  1. Beijing Advanced Course 2012
    Beijing Advanced Course 2012

    Staff and participants attending the Advanced Course Beijing 2012
    License: HPG's photo
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    Advanced course on crisis, recovery and transitions - 2013 (Beijing)

    Event - Course - 13 - 19 October 2013

    The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM) at Tsinghua University are partnering to offer the second Advanced Course on Crisis, Recovery and Transitions.

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  4. Cooperation from crisis? Regional responses to humanitarian emergencies

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 September 2013
    Jérémie Labbé, Lilianne Fan, and Walter Kemp
    This policy paper examines how regional responses to humanitarian crises have succeeded or failed to meet humanitarian objectives in order to inform approaches to contemporary crises, with a historical look at regional responses to the war in the former Yogoslavia and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
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  5. Kevin Watkins

    Letter to Barclays Bank - "No winners from the closure of Barclays’ Somali accounts"

    Opinion - Letters - 2 September 2013
    ​Kevin Watkins, the Executive Director of the Overseas Development Institute has called on Barclays Bank to reconsider its decision to close its Somalia accounts, describing the move as 'unwarranted, unnecessary and a threat to some of the world's most vulnerable people’.

    He cites new research from the Humanitarian Policy Group in ODI on a major cash transfer programme introduced in response to the Horn of Africa famine.

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  6. Talking to the 'other side': Humanitarian negotiations in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, Sudan

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 August 2013
    HPG Working Papers
    Irina Mosel and Ashley Jackson
    This Working Paper examines humanitarian negotiations with armed non-state actors in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. Through interviews with armed groups, aid workers, local and international experts and civilians, the study aims to improve understanding of the opportunities for, and obstacles to, engagement with the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the Government of Sudan for humanitarian access.
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  7. Talking to the 'other side': humanitarian negotiations with armed non-state actors in Darfur, Sudan, 2003-2012

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 August 2013
    HPG Working Papers
    Jonathan Loeb
    This Working Paper focuses on the humanitarian community’s extensive engagement with rebel movements in Darfur from 2003-2012. Based on first-hand accounts of experiences of aid workers and rebels who participated in humanitarian negotiations, it documents the rise, decline and disappearance of cross-line aid over the last ten years.
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  9. Sara Pantuliano

    A day to honor Syria’s humanitarian workers

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 August 2013
    Clad in crimson overalls, with a gleaming red crescent framed in white on their backs, the volunteers of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) hardly blend into the crowd. Yet despite being clearly marked as humanitarian workers, SARC volunteers continue to come under fire in one of the bloodiest civil wars ongoing today.

    On the 3rd of March 2013, SARC staff member Mohieddine Mahmoud died while on duty when heavy shelling wracked Jobar neighbourhood in the suburbs of Damascus.

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  10. Eva Svoboda

    World Humanitarian Day: counting the costs

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 August 2013

    Local aid worker deaths in the spotlight

    As humanitarian organisations venture further into the frontlines to deliver medical care, food and shelter, the cost of aid work has risen. These costs are not only financial – but human in nature. On World Humanitarian Day, August 19, we are reminded of the importance of the security and safety of humanitarian aid workers, both local and international.

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