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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. Review and analyse potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve connectedness strategies in transitional settings

    Projects - December 2012 to December 2013
    GiZ has expressed an intention to review and analyse the potential challenges of support to strengthen resilience to improve the connectedness in transitional settings GiZ and HPG are interested in building on a successful cooperation to initiate research work on reviewing and analysising the potential challenges involved in assisting and improving resilience
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  4. Yves Daccord - ICRC Director-General
    Yves Daccord - ICRC Director-General

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: ICRC
    Source: Flickr

    The changing humanitarian landscape: obstacles and opportunities

    Event - Public event - 6 December 2012 18:30 - 19:30 (GMT+00)

    The first in a series of annual lectures hosted by the Humanitarian Policy Group will be given by Yves Daccord, the Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The title of Mr Daccord's talk is 'The changing humanitarian landscape: obstacles and opportunities'.

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  5. Humanitarian space at risk ?

    Event - Round-table - 14 November 2012 09:00 - 16:30 (GMT+00)

    This roundtable discussion focused on the challenges associated with non-international armed conflict and armed non-State actors (ANSAs). Eva Svoboda spoke at this roundtable.

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  6. Humanitarianism: Past, Present, Future

    Event - Conference - 8 - 10 November 2012

    This two and a half day conference explored the past, present, and future of humanitarianism. Eleanor Davey (HPG) gave a presentation entitled "Why the humanitarian sector needs a historical consciousness: motivation, methodology and challenges" during a session chaired by Wendy Fenton (HPN). Wendy Fenton also chaired another session entitled "From local to global: making local agency count at the global policy level".

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  8. Beyond the ‘French Doctors’: The evolution and interpretation of humanitarian action in France

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 October 2012
    HPG Working Papers
    Eleanor Davey
    This Working Paper provides a review of the French experience of humanitarian action over the twentieth century, and of the Francophone literature about this history. It illustrates the importance of national contexts in shaping ideas and discourses about humanitarian affairs, while also reflecting upon their place in a global history.
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  9. Homs Faces Renewed Round of Shelling
    Homs Faces Renewed Round of Shelling

    Smoke billows skyward as homes and buildings are shelled in the city of Homs, Syria.
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/David Manyua
    Source: UN Multimedia

    The crisis in Syria

    ODI On...

    Responding to the need for deliberation and coordination amongst humanitarian actors in Syria and neighbouring countries, HPG convened two high level roundtables. These brought together UN agencies, NGOs, donor representatives, and national and diaspora humanitarian groups to discuss the deepening political and humanitarian crisis, consider its impact on civilians caught up in the conflict and reflect on the response of the international and national community.

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  10. Eleanor Davey

    The diversity of aid

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 October 2012
    One of the key challenges facing the international aid system today is how to respond to actors, notably those from the global south, who have not been regarded as part of the conventional humanitarian landscape. Eleanor Davey observes the value an historical perspective can bring to current thinking and understanding. Eleanor's article appears on pgs 5-7 in this issue of the Networker
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