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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. InterAction Forum 2013

    Event - Conference - 28 April - 1 May 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?".

  2. A conceptual analysis of livelihoods and resilience: addressing the ‘insecurity of agency’

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 November 2012
    Adam Pain and Simon Levine
    The debates on how aid investment can be reoriented towards supporting resilience are usually framed in terms of risk, and of people’s ability to cope with shocks. This HPG working paper argues that support to resilience and intelligent monitoring would be better based on a focus on the structural factors that prevent people from investing in their futures.
  3. Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger
    Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/WFP/Phil Behan
    Source: UN Multimedia

    The crisis in the Sahel – time for a new drumbeat?

    Event - Public event - 31 October 2012 15:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

    This event launches the 55th edition of Humanitarian Exchange, the theme of which is the crisis in the Sahel. Drawing on the articles in this issue as well as their own experience and research speakers in Dakar, Ghana, and London will reflect on and debate these issues as well as respond to questions and comments from our audiences in the room and online.

  4. Humanitarian Assistance Webcast 12: DRR, Inc.: Can the Private Sector Revive Resilience?

    Event - Public event - 19 October 2012 14:30 - 16:00 (GMT+01 (BST))
    This humanitarian assistance webcast brought together an expert panel, which included Simon Levine of the Humanitarian Policy Group, to examine the following questions:
    • Should the public or private sector lead investment in resilience building? What are the costs and benefits of each approach?
    • How can the humanitarian and development communities work with the private sector on DRR while remaining impartial actors?
    • How can the model of resilience building and DRR be replicated in areas where private investment is perceived as high risk due to factors such as violence?
  5. UK launch of ‘Ending the Everyday Emergency'

    Event - Public event - 17 July 2012 14:00 - 15:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    World Vision and Save the Children, in association with the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) and the Sahel Working Group, invite you to discuss the findings of "Ending the Everyday Emergency", a new report on the challenge of strengthening resilience in the Sahel. Wendy Fenton, HPN Coordinator will be chairing the event.

  6. Improving emergency response

    Event - Round-table - 6 March 2012

    USAID organised meeting; Simon Levine presented findings from the Humanitarian Practice Network Paper 'System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa' at a session entitled 'Improving Emergency Response'.

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