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The Third Session of the Global Platform in 2011 motivated participants to coalesce intoone voice for strong community involvement and engagement in disaster risk reduction andclimate change...
The main objectives of this study have been two-fold. On the one hand, the study has attempted to establish the extent of financial vulnerability of governments and households to natural hazards...
Each year this document is published to inform thedonor community about the activities planned byOCHA Headquarters and its field offices for the coming year, and to solicit donor support for OCHA...
The œOslo Guidelines? were originally prepared over a period of two years beginning in1992. They were the result of a collaborative effort that culminated in an internationalconference in Oslo,...
These guidelines aim to support the fieldworker in establishing the necessity for and overseeing the construction of multi-purpose buildings to be used in a range of emergency situations. The...
Livelihood thinking dates back to the work of Robert Chambers in the mid-1980s. In realisingthat conventional development concepts did not yield the desired effects and that humankind...
For decades, WFP has been on the frontline of the fight against hunger. But today, the global context in which WFP operates is rapidly changing. New challenges areemerging. High commodity prices,...
The purpose of this technical guidance sheet is to provide guidance to WFP Country Office andpartner staff in conducting a simple trader survey with limited or no external technical support. For...
Understanding food security and vulnerability has always been challenging. Yet theemergence of relatively new phenomena such as the recent high food and fuel prices, the global financial crisis,...
This second edition of the UNHCR/WFP Joint Assessment Guidelines has followed thefirst revision of 2004, which resulted from five years of a joint effort to distil experience, institutionalize...