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Michal Lyons presented Practical Action Publishing's new book 'Building Back Better'.
This Network Paper explores the current and practice of contingency planning in humanitarian organisations. It sets out the key terms and concepts relating to contingency planning, explores the...
A presentation launching the book, Building Back Better: Delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale, edited by Michal Lyons and Theo Schilderman and published by Practical...
Smoke in the home from cooking on wood, dung and crop waste kills nearly one million children a year. In its report, Smoke: the Killer in the Kitchen, published in 2004, Practical Action...
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) are a set of international guidelines and standards dealing with designing, implimenting anf evaluating livestock interventions. LEGs have...
It may seem obvious that human rights abuses (or more correctly when armed conflict is involved, violations of humanitarian law) are at the core of these emergencies, but the protection of...
This publication is the result of extensive consultations and a response to the call for clear policy and practical guidance for mainstreaming gender perspectives into disaster risk reduction. It...
The ALNAP Global Study responds to a growing consensus that the consultation and participation of disaster-affected populations during the planning, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian...
This HPG Briefing Paper examines the idea and practice of coherence between political and humanitarian action. It concludes that the present emphasis on integration of these two policy domains is...
Report of a conference organised by ODI, POLIS at the University of Leeds and CAFOD in London, 1 February 2001. Humanitarian assistance has always been a highly political activity. It has always...