Header Grid Blocks

GTranslate

Shaping policy for development

An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN
  • 844 items

Sort by

Search results

  1. Is humantiarianism worth defending?

    Event - Public event - 18 April 2013

    The MSc module on Managing Humanitarianism at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) held a final lecture that invited panellists to answer the question: "Is humanitarianism worth defending?" Simon Levine served as one of the panellists.

    Find out more

  2. 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".

    Find out more
  4. Mauritanian herder seeks pasture during 2012 Sahel food security crisis
    Mauritanian herder seeks pasture during 2012 Sahel food security crisis

    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam
    Source: Flickr

    HPG Integrated Programme 2013-15

    Projects - March 2013 to March 2015
    This is the eleventh Integrated Programme (IP) of work proposed for funding by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG). The projects constitute the core of HPG’s research work in 2013–15, combining policy-relevant research and engagement, humanitarian practice, academic engagement and a vigorous and extensive public affairs programme of events, conferences and media work.
    Find out more

  5. Paradoxes of presence: Risk management and aid culture in challenging environments

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013
    HPG Commissioned Reports
    Sarah Collinson and Mark Duffield with Carol Berger, Diana Felix da Costa and Karl Sandstrom
    This publication reflects on the increasing presence of humanitarian agencies in insecure environments and risk management – and the fundamental tension between ‘staying’ and ‘staying safe’. It argues for efforts to broaden and deepen the risk agenda beyond the immediate preoccupations of ostensibly manageable security risks, but which encompasses attention to the host of interconnected challenges and hazards involved.
    Download
  6. Lilianne Fan

    Myanmar: Meiktila violence sends warning to foreign investors

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 March 2013

    In Myanmar's capital Yangon, on March 20-21, a business investment summit presented Myanmar as a stable, growing democracy eager to establish agriculture, infrastructure, financial and manufacturing partnerships with leading international companies.

    The messages were clear: Myanmar's transition to democracy is irreversible, wide-ranging reforms are underway and the country is now ripe for investment and trade.

    Read and comment
  9. John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator visits refugee camp in Chad
    John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator visits refugee camp in Chad

    John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, holds a meeting at the refugee camp in Chad
    License: Creative Commons
    Credit: UN Photo/Olivia Grey Pritchard
    Source: UNmultimedia

    The politics of humanity: the reality of relief aid

    Event - Public event - 20 March 2013 18:00 - 20:00 (GMT+00)

    In conversation with the BBC’s Mike Wooldridge, Sir John Holmes, former UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), will be discussing some of the most controversial episodes of his tenure as ERC and the morally complex choices confronting those responsible for the provision of humanitarian aid to people in need of assistance and protection.

    Watch

Pages