In the context of the goals for children and development set out at the World Summit for Children in 1990, this report monitors global advances and setbacks in the period until 1999. In particular,...
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Manual on Field Practice in Internal Displacement
This manual offers field workers a sampling of prior experience of agencies wrestling with internal displacement. Concise examples of program initiatives undertaken by operational agencies,...
Guidance for Evaluating Humanitarian Assistance in Complex Emergencies
This document aims to improve accountability and performance in the operation of the international humanitarian assistance system by providing guidance on how to evaluate humanitarian assistance...
Guidelines for Environmental Assessment Following Chemical Emergencies
These guidelines provide practical guidelines to be used as an emergency assessment tool to enable competent national authorities and/or international experts to gather on-site data in chemical...
Human Development Report 1999: Globalization with a Human Face
The 1999 Human Development Report examines the possible positive and negative effects of globalisation on human development. It includes the following chapters: - Human development in this age of...
Guidelines for Drug Donations
These guidelines aim to improve the quality of drug donations, not to hinder them. They are not an international regulation, but are intended to serve as a basis for national or institutional...
Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Towards a Mine-Free World
In the context of the Mine Ban Treaty, which entered into force on March 1999, this report for the year 1999 measures the concrete impact of the Treaty on the global mine problem. Individual...
Asistencia Humanitaria en Caso de Desastres: Guía para Proveer Ayuda Eficaz
Los desastres naturales y los denominados complejos se han presentado cada vez con mayor capacidad destructiva tanto en América Latina y el Caribe como en otras regiones en desarrollo del resto del...
World Report 1999
This annual review of human rights practices covers developments in 68 countries during the period December 1997 to November 1998. With respect to particular countries, issues examined include: -...
Amnesty International Annual Report 1999
Covering human rights abuses in 142 countries and territories around the world, this report provides studies of individual countries as well as regional summaries for the year 1998. In addition,...
International Guidelines for Landmine and Unexploded Ordnance Awareness Education
These International Guidelines were developed to introduce central issues of mine awareness, seeking to shield populations from accidents involving landmines, unexploded ordnance or other...
Evaluating Country Programmes
With development agencies increasingly targeting development assistance at the country level, this paper provides an overview of approaches and methods for country programme evaluation in order to...
Protecting Human Rights: The Challenge to Humanitarian Organisations
Viewing assistance and protection as complementary rather than competitive activities and arguing for a combined approach, this paper seeks to provide aid personnel with an analytical framework for...
A Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Rights Law
This guide provides a summary of the principal applicable provisions of human rights law and, to a lesser extent, of humanitarian and refugee law. Chapters are provided on: - Historical background...
Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations: An Inter-Agency Field Manual
This field manual aims to facilitate discussion and decision-making in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of reproductive health (RH); guide field staff in introducing and/or...
Rethinking "Relief" and "Development" in Transitions from Conflict
This report aims to introduce a new perspective for viewing the process of transition from conflict and promote an expanded, flexible definition of humanitarian action. For this purpose, it looks at...
Mean Times: Humanitarian Action in Complex Political Emergencies - Stark Choices, Cruel Dilemmas
This book focuses on how to engage in humanitarian activities in complex emergency situations. It is divided into the following parts: - Humanitarian action in the midst of failing, failed and...
WHO Handbook for Emergency Field Operations
This handbook is a tool for working in "complex emergencies" or other situations where customary working conditions and normal procedures are suspended. In addition to giving an overview of various...
Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations: A Guide for Effective Aid
In the context of the logistic and management problems posed to national authorities by the flood of relief supplies that arrive in the aftermath of large-scale disasters, this report aims to make...
OFDA Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1998
The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance responded to a record total of 86 declared disasters in FY 1998. BHR/OFDA continued its emergency humanitarian assistance programs in numerous "complex...