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Letter to Barclays Bank - "No winners from the closure of Barclays’ Somali accounts"
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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The end of cheap rice: a cause for celebration?
Cheap rice may well be a thing of the past according to this new ODI Briefing which says that growing pressure on land and water resources, coupled with population growth, may be pushing the world towards an era of higher prices. -
Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 2: April 2012-March 2013
Sophia Dunn, Mike Brewin and Aues ScekThis report presents the findings of Phase 2 of a monitoring exercise of a unique partnership, the Cash and Voucher Monitoring Group (CVMG), involving non-governmental organisations providing cash-based interventions in response to famine and humanitarian emergency in South Central Somalia. It was the first large-scale cash-based response to be implemented in Somalia, and – at a global level – the first non-governmental emergency cash-based programme on this scale. -
InterAction Forum 2013
The annual InterAction Forum seeks to provide a space for the leadership of NGOs, governments, philanthropy, corporations and civil society to engage and forge common solutions to improve the lives of the world’s poor and marginalized. Simon Levine spoke on a panel: "Resilience: How to Make it Meaningful?".
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Development of operational guidance and SOPs for cash-based interventions
This project seeks to develop multi-sectoral, operational guidance for UNHCR on setting up and achieving protection and assistance goals through cash-based interventions in displacement settings. It also seeks to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for UNHCR for cash-based interventions. -
Mbororo Refugees in Cameroon prepare communal land
Mbororo refugee women prepare communal land for the next planting season in Gbiti
License: Creative Commons
Credit: UNHCR / F. Noy
Source: FlickrResponse analysis and response choice in food security crises: a roadmap
This event will launch Network Paper 73: Response analysis and response choice in food security crises: a roadmap, which provides an in depth discussion of the process of making an appropriate response choice in humanitarian emergencies, and an analysis of the most important factors involved in that choice.
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Displaced women and children in northern Mali
License: Creative Commons
Credit: EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre
Source: FlickrConflict and intervention in Mali: the humanitarian consequences
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Mozambique's agriculture and Brazil's cerrado 'model': miracle or mirage?
Great Insights GREAT Insights, Volume 1, Issue 10. December 2012Lídia Cabral, Alex Shankland, Anna Locke and Jimena DuranThis article explores what is currently Brazil’s most ambitious agricultural cooperation initiative in Africa – ProSavana - a programme aiming to replicate Brazil’s renowned ‘cerrado transformation’. -
Review and analyse potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve connectedness strategies in transitional settings
GiZ has expressed an intention to review and analyse the potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve the connectedness in transitional settings GiZ and HPG are interested in building on a successful cooperation to initiate research work on reviewing and analysising the potential challenges involved in assisting and improving resilience