Disasters and Emergencies
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For a Safer Tomorrow
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Geneva Conventions enshrined peopl...
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For a Safer Tomorrow (Summary)
Summary of a Safer Tomorrow. Since the end of the Cold War, the number of armed conflicts in the world has fallen. But is this trend now about to be reversed? Climate change, poverty and inequality, and the wider availability of weapons all add to the risk of conflicts increasing. In 1949, the Genev...
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The Guide to the HAP Standard
What is HAP? The Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) is a multi-agency initiative to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian action. What is the HAP Standard? The HAP Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management Standard (2007) provides an industry standard for humanit...
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Improving the Safety of Civilians
Improving the Safety of Civilians is an innovative tool which strengthens the capacity of humanitarian field workers to improve civilian safety through humanitarian programmes. Designed for use in difficult and sensitive field situations, the pack draws from extensive experience in real protection c...
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Managing Humanitarian Relief
Responding Effectively to humanitarian disasters is far from straightforward, and relief workers often find themselves in a world of uncoordinated , highly competitive agencies working with cross-cutting purposes. Managing Humanitarian Relief is aimed at relief workers charged with putting together...
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Mesure de l'impact et redevabilite en situation de secours d'urgence
Quelle diffrence faisons-nous? Comment le savon-nous? Le Guide Suffisamment Bon aide les agents de terrain occup pondre ; ces questions. Il offre un ensemble de lignes directrices fondamentales sur la facedilon d'ecirctre redevable vis a vis des populations locales et de mesurer l'impact du programm...
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Pour des lendemains plus sûrs
Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, le nombre de conflits armés dans le monde a baissé. Mais est-ce la tendance sur le point d'être renversée? Le changement climatique, la pauvreté et les inégalités, et la plus grande disponibilité des armes tout accroître les risques de conflits croissants. En 1949,...
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Building Trust in Diverse Teams
What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used throughout the cycle of an emergency response and features...
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Cash-transfer Programming in Emergencies
In this guide Oxfam staff present the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes. They explain how to assess whether cash is the most appropriate response to any particular emergency. These 16 A6 cards contain key elements from the book. Different types of cash intervention are compared - cash grants...
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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies
What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations and contains a variety of tools on needs assessm...