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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. Women waiting to receive their cash transfer
    Women waiting to receive their cash transfer

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (Flickr)
    Source: Flickr

    Holding cash transfers to account

    Event - Public event - 25 April 2013 11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Do cash transfer programmes effectively address issues of social exclusion? These and other questions will be explored in an ODI event which will present findings from Transforming Cash Transfers, a DFID-funded study that investigates beneficiary and community perspectives on unconditional cash transfer programmes in five countries - Kenya, Mozambique, the Occupied Palestinian Territories (both Gaza and West Bank), Uganda and Yemen.

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  4. Iraq 10 years on: examining a decade of turbulence

    Event - Conference - 8 April 2013

    This conference organised by The Cordoba Foundation and The Sharq Forum  reviewed and examined the achievements and failures of a decade’s long intervention in Iraq by Western-led forces and regional powers. Eva Svoboda chaired a session on "The humanitarian costs of the last decade in Iraq".

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  6. A view of Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza
    A view of Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza

    A view of Jabalia refugee camp. Jabalia is the largest of the Gaza Strip's eight refugee camps. It is located north of Gaza City, close to a village of the same name
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Suhair Karam/IRIN
    Source: IRIN

    Gaza calling: conflict and displacement in the Gaza Strip

    Event - Public event - 4 March 2013 14:00 - 16:00 (GMT+00)

    This event is scheduled to launch Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip, a look at internal displacement over the past ten years in Gaza. With a live video link to Gaza, this event will bring together Palestinian and international speakers to explore the multi-faceted effects of the conflict on civilians, and up to date assessment of how displaced populations have fared since the Pillar of Defence military operation in November 2012.

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  7. Labour mobility in east Africa: an analysis of the East African Community's Common Market and the free movement of workers

    Publication - Journal articles or issues - 7 February 2013
    Development Policy Review Volume 31, Issue Number 2
    Yurendra Basnett
    This article advocates an institutional perspective in analysing labour mobility, since rules governing cross-border labour markets are an embodiment of access and participation rights, and can determine the formalisation or informalisation of work and the protection and benefits accrued by migrant workers. It examines the East African Community's Common Market Protocol of July 2010, which seeks to promote the ‘free movement of workers’ within the Community. It argues that there are contradictions and inconsistencies in implementing the Protocol and provides recommendations for addressing them.
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