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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. Final monitoring report of the Somalia cash and voucher transfer programme - Phase 1: September 2011–March 2012

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 August 2012
    HPG Commissioned Reports
    Catherine Longley, Sophia Dunn and Mike Brewin
    This report presents the findings of Phase 1 of a monitoring exercise of a unique partnership involving 14 non-governmental organisations providing cash-based interventions in response to famine and humanitarian emergency in South Central Somalia. It was the first large-scale cash-based response to be implemented in Somalia, and – at a global level – the first non-governmental emergency cash-based programme on this scale
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  2. Humanitarian space in Somalia: a scarce commodity

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 18 April 2012
    HPG Working Papers
    Laura Hammond and Hannah Vaughan-Lee
    This working paper examines the challenges to humanitarian action in Somalia by considering the meaning of the term ‘humanitarian space’ in practice, and the political–humanitarian dynamics within this space.
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  3. 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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  4. Drought preparedness and response in the Horn of Africa

    Event - Workshop - 1 March 2012 09:00 - 17:00 (GMT+03)

    Simon Levine spoke at the Regional Humanitarian Partnership Team, IAWG, and Food Security and Nutrition Working Group joint workshop, highlighting key issues from the HPN Network Paper 71: System Failure?Wendy Fenton participated in the event.

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  5. Somalia conference needs to clear the way for effective relief efforts

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 February 2012
    'It is, therefore, imperative, irrespective of the direction taken at [the London] conference [on Somalia], that the political community takes heed of these concerns and commits to ensuring that all sides of the conflict adhere to international humanitarian and human rights law, and that the neutral and independent character of humanitarian relief is both supported and respected.'
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  6. UN integration and humanitarian space

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 December 2011
    Victoria Metcalfe, Alison Giffen and Samir Elhawary
    In this joint study HPG and the Stimson Center consider how efforts to forge greater coherence within the UN system have affected humanitarian action.
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  7. Woman in Mogadishu, 2011
    Woman in Mogadishu, 2011

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/Stuart Price
    Source: Flickr

    Looking back, moving forward? A humanitarian perspective

    Event - Public event - 5 December 2011 19:00 - 20:30 (GMT+00)

    From the popular uprisings in the Middle East, to the intervention in Libya, and now the tragedy unfolding in the Horn of Africa, many of this year’s top stories have been dominated by humanitarian issues. In this end of year debate, chaired by Channel 4's Jonathan Rugman and cast with leading figures from the humanitarian world, including the head of HPG, Sara Pantuliano, the panel discuss the main challenges to protecting and assisting people caught up in conflict and disasters in 2011. They will also explore the challenges which lie ahead in 2012.

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  8. Village residents flee fighting in Abyei
    Village residents flee fighting in Abyei

    Internally Displaced Persons on the road fleeing large-scale fighting in Abyei, between the Sudan Armed Forces and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army. 20/05/2008
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/Tim McKulka
    Source: Flickr

    Urban displacement: implications for humanitarian and development actors

    Event - Round-table - 1 December 2011 09:00 - 16:30 (GMT+00)

    This event will explore research on displacement in urban settings and will enable policy-makers, operational agencies and researchers to share their experiences and understanding of how to best engage in urban contexts and assist urban displaced population.

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  9. NP71 - System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa

    System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa

    Publication - Discussion papers - 30 November 2011
    HPN Network Papers 72
    Simon Levine, Alexandra Crosskey and Mohammed Abdinoor
    Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late. An enormous investment in early warning over a number of years has brought great improvements: mass human fatalities have become rarer in the past 25 years. Our response has not kept up with this ambition. This Network Paper examines how one project tried to ask the same questions again, its successes and failures and its attempt at a fresh explanation of the fact that so many apparently simple problems have proved so intractable.
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  10. Blind aid: Relief efforts inside Somalia

    Event - Public event - 19 October 2011 19:00 - 20:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

    Samir Elhawary speaks at an event hosted by Médecins Sans Frontière  which aimed to unravel some of the complexities of providing assistance in Somalia.

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