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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. Referendum results in Juba, 2011
    Referendum results in Juba, 2011

    A man reacts as the preliminary results of the referendum are announced in Juba on January 30, 2011
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: © Siegfried Modola/IRIN
    Source: IRIN

    South Sudan at a crossroads: humanitarian response in a changing context

    Event - Public event - 22 May 2013 11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Much has been accomplished in South Sudan in recent years, but has the humanitarian situation in the world’s newest nation improved? This event will launch edition 57 of the Humanitarian Exchange on South Sudan, which examines from different perspectives the drivers of continuing humanitarian needs in the country and how humanitarian, development and government actors interpret and respond to these.

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  2. 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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  3. Seminar on Transition

    Event - Seminar - 24 April 2012 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+02)

    Samir Elhawary led the meeting and, together with Sara Pantuliano presented on the topic of Transition. The discussion covered the following issues:
    ·         Transition: concepts and definitions·         Stabilisation and the importance of political settlements·         Civil-Military relations·         Integrated Missions and Humanitarian space·         Sudan and South Sudan case study

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  4. Advanced course on conflict, crisis and transitions

    Event - Course - 9 November 2011

    The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute and the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) at the University of York are partnering to offer a yearly ‘Advanced Course on Conflict, Crisis and Transitions’, a week-long programme targeting mid-career and senior professionals.

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  5. Pipelines and donkey carts - A social risk analysis of water availability, access and use in Nyala, South Darfur

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 September 2011
    Alan Nicol, Mohamed Abdulrahman Elamin and Nawal Hassan Osman with Mahbouba Abdelrahman Ali, Suleiman Mohamed Nour, Tayalla Elmedani, Sumaya Mohamed Yagoub and Aisha Mustafa El-Neima Mohamed
    This study seeks to examine the social impact of increased water availability in Nyala, provided for through Darfur Urban Water Supply Project, particularly to understand in more detail how the existing ‘water economy’ of Nyala may change as the resource is made more available via an expanded town network, and how this change may affect the poor and contribute to or mitigate future conflict.
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  6. Strengthening public financial management in post-conflict countries

    Publication - Briefing papers - 28 April 2011
    Economic Premise 54
    Verena Fritz, Edward Hedger, and Ana Paula Fialho Lopes
    Understanding how to rebuild resilient states in post-conflict countries is an urgent priority for the international community. A new cross-country study of public financial management reforms in post-conflict situations shows that substantial progress is possible even in difficult circumstances, while showing a pattern of sequencing and progress that differs from standard assumptions. However, the impact on state building remains less than what might be hoped. That impact could be strengthened by persistently targeting sustainable capacity, challenging areas such as procurement, greater public awareness, and more rapid coverage of line ministries and sub-national levels.
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  8. The MDGs and the humanitarian-development divide

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 September 2008

    The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 will be a hollow victory if those who are worst off – including many of those living in fragile states – see little or no improvement in their living conditions.This Opinion examines the gap between humanitarian and development agendas, which has been thrown into sharp relief by efforts around the MDGs.

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  9. Violent paths to peace? Rethinking the conflict-development nexus in Colombia

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 8 July 2008
    Colombia Internacional 67
    Samir Elhawary

    International aid in conflict-affected countries is based on the liberal assumption that an inverse relationship exists between violent conflict and development. This paper contests this assumption through a study of the Colombian context that demonstrates violent conflict and development can in fact be interconnected as part of the transition to capitalist modes of production and in the process of state formation.

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  10. Sudan: experts speak on the current situation

    Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 6 July 2008

    Sudan remains in the spotlight, with progress towards resolving the Darfur conflict stalled, ongoing tension along the border between Sudan and Chad, and a violent confrontation in June between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the border town of Abyei. This podcast, recorded at recent ODI events on Sudan, provides expert views on the current situation in the region.

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