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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. Dice
    Dice

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: milky.way
    Source: Flickr

    Re-examining public financial management reforms: new frameworks and country evidence

    Event - Round-table - 20 June 2012 14:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

    This round-table brought together leading researchers on public financial management (PFM) to examine and debate evidence on budget reforms in low-income African countries. The round-table addressed frameworks for approaching and analysing PFM reforms, pre-conditions and political economy factors, prioritisation and phasing, and sustainability.

  2. 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'.

  3. 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.

  4. Voices from the Source: struggles with water security in Ethiopia

    Projects - February 2012 to July 2012
    This research will encourage people to speak for themselves, to articulate their own diversity of views on what their understandings are of water ‘security and insecurity’. It will also explore how people interpret the links between these understandings and their wider food, income health and other forms of security constituting their overall human security.
  5. People flooded village rural Mozambique
    People flooded village rural Mozambique

    People walk through flooded village in rural Mozambique
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: TheHumanitarianCoaliton.ca
    Source: Flickr

    Preparing for the future? Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change

    Event - Public event - 25 January 2012 10:30 - 12:00 (GMT+00)

    This event launches a new report - 'Rethinking support for adaptive capacity to climate change: the role of development interventions' - exploring the role that development interventions are playing in helping people to face the future challenges of change – including climate change.

  6. Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance - Phase 2

    Projects - January 2012 to April 2014
    The purpose of ACCRA is to increase the use of evidence by governments (specifically in Ethiopia, Uganda and Mozambique) and other development and humanitarian actors in developing and implementing policies and interventions that improve poor people's adaptive capacity, with a specific focus on climate related hazards, change and variability – both in the short and long-term.

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