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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. 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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  3. Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2007
    HPG Reports 25
    Kevin Savage and Paul Harvey (eds)

    This paper is the final product of a two-year study into the role that remittances play in crises. The work explores how affected people use remittance income to survive and recover from crises, the effect that crises can have on remittance flows and the way that humanitarian responses consider the role of remittances. The study is based on a review of relevant literature, as well as detailed case studies in Haiti, Pakistan, Somaliland, Sudan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. The study concludes that, while remittances should not be seen as a panacea or substitute for humanitarian action, there is clear potential for humanitarian actors to do more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief and people’s own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis.

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  5. Livelihoods, migration and remittance flows in times of crisis and conflict: case-studies from Darfur, Sudan

    Publication - Discussion papers - 15 September 2006
    HPG Background Papers
    Helen Young
    The objective of this paper is to review the role and importance of remittances in the livelihoods of rural Darfurians before the current crisis and at its height in September 2004, and also to review the impact of the conflict on migration patterns, remittance transfer mechanisms and remittance flows.
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  7. Remittances in crisis: Sri Lanka after the tsunami

    Publication - Discussion papers - 31 July 2006
    HPG Background Papers
    Priya Deshingkar and M. M. M. Aheeyar

    Migrant and diaspora remittances flowed generously immediately after the tsunami once again demonstrating the counter cyclical nature of remittances. While some migrants hand carried money back when they returned after the Tsunami others sent money through trusted channels such as banks and other formal channels. But the damage to infrastructure as well as the loss of documents meant that many affected families could not access remittances sent through that route.

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