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This paper offers a synthesis of ideas debated at a one day seminar examining international responses to humanitarian tragedies. With many regions of the world today caught up in a state of...
This paper presents the participatory review of the Ikafe settlement programme in northwest Uganga. Set up in 1994, the Ikafe project allocated land to Sudanese refugees so that they could become...
This paper provides a preliminary roadmap for humanitarian agencies to engage more proactively with the issue of small arms and light weapons. It reviews the dimensions of the problem, from both...
This project looks at the use of cash and voucher based approaches (such as cash grants, cash for work) by humanitarian aid agencies and local governements to support those displaced by the 2004...
This review aims to help project planners and managers appreciate the significance of hazards and the risks associated with them.
This sixth GPR in the RRN series set itself the task of broadening thinking on temporary human settlement planning in emergencies. It asks what is good, or at least better practice in planning for...
Following international interventions in Bosnia-Herzegovina1 and Iraq, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have played a central role in delivering humanitarian relief, encouraging participation...
Challenges in providing shelter in India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka after the tsunami.
Conclusions and Recommendations from the Evaluation Meeting.
More than 400 professionals from 48 countries met at this meeting to identify lessons learned with regard to the preparedness for...
In recent years, international humanitarian agencies have been adapting theirresponses to emergencies. Many have begun using cash-based initiatives, alongsideor in place of conventional relief...