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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. 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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  2. Talking to the 'other side': humanitarian engagement 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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  3. Humanitarian Exchange 58: Humanitarian Negotiations

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 July 2013
    Humanitarian Practice Network, Ashley Jackson and contributors
    This edition of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited with Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Research Fellow Ashley Jackson, features humanitarian negotiations. In many contexts, negotiations with a wide array of actors – both state and non-state – are essential to gaining access to populations in need of assistance. This issue looks at field experiences of undertaking humanitarian negotiations, the challenges and compromises involved and the resources and tools that have been developed to support more effective engagement.
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  4. Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance
    Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance

    Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance blocked at a checkpoint in Hebron, OPT.
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: ICRC 2011
    Source: ICRC

    Getting where needed: overcoming aid access obstacles

    Event - Public event - 29 April 2013 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Knocking on the front door doesn't always get you in. That's been the hard lesson over decades for humanitarians seeking to bring assistance to those in need. This event will address the practical challenges organisations face in reaching those in need, and the strategies adopted to overcome them.

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  5. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator visits refugee camp in Chad
    John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator visits refugee camp in Chad

    John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, holds a meeting at the refugee camp in Chad
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/Olivia Grey Pritchard
    Source: UNmultimedia

    The politics of humanity: the reality of relief aid

    Event - Public event - 20 March 2013 18:00 - 20:00 (GMT+00)

    In conversation with the BBC’s Mike Wooldridge, Sir John Holmes, former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), will be discussing some of the most controversial episodes of his tenure as ERC and the morally complex choices confronting those responsible for the provision of humanitarian aid to people in need of assistance and protection.

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    Talking to the Taliban

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 December 2012

    As international troops withdraw from Afghanistan and prepare to hand over security in 2014, HPG’s newly published research based on scores of interviews with the Taliban provides a rare insight into their relationship with aid organisations.

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  7. ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint
    ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint

    Afghanistan: An ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint manned by one of the numerous armed groups active in the city in 1994
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: © ICRC / Thierry Gassman
    Source: ICRC website

    The other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan

    Event - Public event - 11 December 2012 11:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

    This event launches a new report into how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance. It offers a valuable and rare insight into how the Taliban view humanitarian and development assistance. The report draws on dozens of interviews with Taliban militia and leaders and conversely, investigates the approaches used by aid agencies to gain access to populations in Taliban-held territory.

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  10. 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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