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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. Tools for the job: Supporting principled humanitarian action

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 10 October 2012
    HPG Commissioned Reports
    Ingrid Macdonald and Angela Valenza
    Despite high level donor commitments to the humanitarian principles, global humanitarian funding continues to favour politically strategic countries over neglected or protracted crises. This report looks beyond the rhetoric and makes concrete recommendations to make humanitarian funding more principled and effective.
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  3. Talking to the other side: Humanitarian engagement with armed non-state actors

    Publication - Briefing papers - 28 June 2012
    HPG Policy Briefs 47
    Ashley Jackson
    This HPG Policy Brief explores the obstacles to and opportunities for humanitarian dialogue with armed non-state actors (ANSAs). It begins with the rationale for such engagement and the applicable legal frameworks. It then provides an overview of the challenges that humanitarian actors face when engaging in dialogue with ANSAs on issues of access, assistance and protection.
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  4. Somalia conference needs to clear the way for effective relief efforts

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 February 2012
    'It is, therefore, imperative, irrespective of the direction taken at [the London] conference [on Somalia], that the political community takes heed of these concerns and commits to ensuring that all sides of the conflict adhere to international humanitarian and human rights law, and that the neutral and independent character of humanitarian relief is both supported and respected.'
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  5. Members of the militant Al-shabab in southern Somalia
    Members of the militant Al-shabab in southern Somalia

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Hassan Mahamud Ahmed/IRIN
    Source: IRIN

    Counter-terrorism and humanitarian action

    Event - Public event - 17 October 2011 13:00 - 15:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    This event launches the publication of new HPG research documenting the profound effects that counter-terrorism legislation has on humanitarian action. The authors discuss how the application of counter-terrorism laws undermine humanitarian principles and erode the ability to provide assistance in a neutral and principled manner.    

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  6. Durum. Dissemination session to JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) combatants.
    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
    This project aims to better understand how aid agencies engage with ANSAs, and how humanitarian engagement ultimately affects access to protection and assistance for vulnerable populations. It will seek to examine various issues and country case studies that illuminate this engagement in difficult political and security environments. This includes what lessons can be learned from experiences of negotiations and dialogue with ANSAs to ensure that vulnerable populations are better able to access assistance and protection. It will also explore the risks inherent to this engagement, including the moral dilemmas that often arise and the compromises that agencies make in order to gain access.
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  10. Terms of Engagement: Conditions and Conditionality in Humanitarian Action

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 July 2000
    HPG Reports 6
    Nicholas Leader and Joanna Macrae

    This report covers a conference organised by the ODI and the Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva in May 2000 to discuss different views on the 'terms of engagement' between humanitarian and political actors. It provides an overview of the debates, and indicates areas of consensus, and of disagreement.

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