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Authors: Victoria Metcalfe, Simone Haysom and Stuart Gordon
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This literature review identifies key trends emerging from the literature on civil–military coordination in conflicts and natural disasters.
It deals with the interaction between international humanitarian and international or foreign military actors operating in crisis contexts, and offers some reflections on the relationship between national military actors and the international humanitarian community.
- 39 pages
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Published by
ODI as part of the
HPG Working Papers
series.
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Authors: Samir Elhawary
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The way humanitarian aid workers are perceived has recently attracted increased attention.The aim of this work is to develop the debate on the role of humanitarian action in crisis contexts through an evaluation of how Médecins Sans Frontière's work is perceived in volatile environments.
- 9 pages
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Published by
Médecins Sans Frontière
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Download from www.doctorswithoutborders.org
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Authors: Laura Hammond and Hannah Vaughan-Lee
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This working paper examines the challenges to humanitarian action in Somalia by considering the meaning of the term ‘humanitarian space’ in practice, and the political–humanitarian dynamics within this space.
- 20 pages
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Published by
ODI as part of the
HPG Working Papers
series.
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Authors: Adam Pain and Paula Kantor
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This working paper examines the variability in the impact of social relationships on the provision of public goods in different villages in Afghanistan and argues this variability has not been captured in policy and programming responses.
- 32 pages
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Published by
ODI as part of the
HPG Working Papers
series.
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Authors: Sarah Collinson and Samir Elhawary
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This HPG Report reviews key trends and issues affecting humanitarian space over the last decade. It argues that the discourse of ‘shrinking’ humanitarian space, to which the solution is simply greater adherence to principles, is not borne out by the evidence.
- 36 pages
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Published by
ODI as part of the
HPG Reports
series.
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Authors: Andy Featherstone
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This study seeks to examine the challenges to adhering to these principles in practice and how donor funding restrictions can hamper the ability to provide principled humanitarian assistance. The case study in Afghanistan is the second of four case studies (Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and South Sudan are the other three).
- 28 pages
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Published by
ODI,
Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection and Norwegian Refugee Council
as part of the
HPG Commissioned Reports
series.
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Authors: Sarah Bailey and Kerren Hedlund
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Cash transfer programming is now widely accepted as a way to meet a variety of needs in humanitarian and transitional settings. Although the literature on cash transfers has grown exponentially over the last few years, as has their use in humanitarian interventions, the relationship between cash transfer interventions in crisis contexts and malnutrition has received little attention. This is surprising given that many cash transfers have nutritional objectives, such as improving access to an adequate quantity and quality of food. Nutrition, food security and health actors all could consider cash transfers as a way of addressing the multiple causes of malnutrition. The purpose of this paper is to explore evidence on the nutritional impact of cash transfers in emergency and transitional settings. It has been commissioned by the German government (Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ) through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
- 52 pages
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Published by
ODI as part of the
HPG Commissioned Reports
series.
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Authors: Simon Levine and Claire Chastre
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This paper takes a new look at the old problem of weaknesses in the integration of food security and nutrition approaches. The paper highlights the differences in the way the two sectors work in all stages from problem identification through to evaluation, and proposes that better casual analysis and response analysis could be a meeting ground to improve collaboration and impact.
- 10 pages
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Published by
ODI,
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and Humanitarian Aid & Civil Protection
as part of the
HPG Commissioned Reports
series.
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Authors: various authors
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Articles in the latest issue explore coping strategies and risk manageability, climate change adaptation, and the prevention of corruption in humanitarian assistance. For the full table of contents, or to subscribe or submit an article visit http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/disa
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Published by
ODI and
Wiley-Blackwell
as part of the
Disasters
series.
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from ordering.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Authors: Simone Haysom and Sara Pavanello
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This study focuses on urbanisation, displacement and vulnerability in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Research aims to consider the reality of life for displaced populations in urban areas, investigate the policy and operational challenges that confront national and international stakeholders when responding to the needs of urban internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees, and offer recommendations for strengthening support to these populations.
- 31 pages
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Published by
ODI and
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
as part of the
HPG Working Papers
series.
This resources was an output of the following ODI project: Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability
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Authors: Simon Levine, Alexandra Crosskey and Mohammed Abdinoor
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Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late. An enormous investment in early warning over a number of years has brought great improvements: mass human fatalities have become rarer in the past 25 years. Our response has not kept up with this ambition. This Network Paper examines how one project tried to ask the same questions again, its successes and failures and its attempt at a fresh explanation of the fact that so many apparently simple problems have proved so intractable.
- 32 pages
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Published by
Humanitarian Practice Network
as part of the
HPN Network Papers
series.
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