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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. Relationships between water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) service delivery and peace-building and state-building: a review of the literature

    Publication - Discussion papers - 17 December 2012
    ODI Working Papers 362
    Nathaniel Mason
    There is an increasing desire among policy and programming communities for service delivery in fragile and conflict affected states and situations to yield peace-building and state-building benefits. This paper maps the theoretical relationships and assesses the state of the evidence, which is found to be patchy for service delivery in general, and more so for WASH services.
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  2. Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 December 2012
    HPG Working Papers
    Simone Haysom and Wasseem el Sarraj
    This HPG Working Paper examines the successive waves of forced displacement in Gaza in recent years and explores the consequences of upheaval generated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the citizens of Gaza. Based on hundreds of interviews with residents and those tasked with assisting them the paper considers the many factors that generate displacement, loss of shelter, livelihoods and life in the Gaza Strip.
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  3. Roundtable on Civil-Military Coordination - Responding to natural disasters: Coordination between national armies, regional organisations, and humanitarian actors

    Event - Round-table - 14 December 2012

    This roundtable brought together various stake holders from the UN, humanitarian agencies, regional bodies, government representatives, and military and security bodies to explore policy and operational debates relating to civil-military coordination in disaster management in the Asia-Pacific region.

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  4. Ashley Jackson

    Talking to the Taliban

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 12 December 2012

    As international troops withdraw from Afghanistan and prepare to hand over security in 2014, HPG’s newly published research based on scores of interviews with the Taliban provides a rare insight into their relationship with aid organisations.

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  5. ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint
    ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint

    Afghanistan: An ICRC team at a Kabul checkpoint manned by one of the numerous armed groups active in the city in 1994
    License: ODI given rights
    Credit: © ICRC / Thierry Gassman
    Source: ICRC website

    The other side: humanitarian engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan

    Event - Public event - 11 December 2012 11:00 - 12:30 (GMT+00)

    This event launches a new report into how aid agencies engage with the Taliban to gain access to Afghans in need of assistance. It offers a valuable and rare insight into how the Taliban view humanitarian and development assistance. The report draws on dozens of interviews with Taliban militia and leaders and conversely, investigates the approaches used by aid agencies to gain access to populations in Taliban-held territory.

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  6. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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