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

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 November 2012
    HPG Working Papers
    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.
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  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.

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  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?
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  7. 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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  9. Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Sri Lanka

    Publication - Discussion papers - 21 August 2012
    Priyanthi Fernando and Sonali Moonesinghe
    Drawing on a review of key literature and a series of consultations with policy makers, practitioners and academics, this paper explores and assesses the current state of knowledge on livelihoods, basic services and social protection in Sri Lanka.
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  10. Livelihoods, basic services and social protection in north-western Pakistan

    Publication - Discussion papers - 21 August 2012
    Babar Shahbaz, Qasim Ali Shah, Abid Q. Suleri, Steve Commins and Akbar Ali Malik
    This review paper synthesises and assesses evidence from the existing literature on poverty and livelihoods, access to basic services and social protection, and aid and its governance in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan, particularly the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally Administrative Tribal Areas (FATA)
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