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Participation by Crisis-Affected Populations in Humanitarian Action: A Handbook for Practitioners

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ALNAP
Seeking to improve the accountability and quality of humanitarian action, this manual provides guidelines for humanitarian agencies seeking to increase participation of people affected by crises in their assistance programmes. For this purpose, it offers the following sections:

Part I: Designing a strategy for participation in humanitarian action
Part II: Participation throughout the project cycle
Part III: Sector related issues

Intended as a guide for international humanitarian personnel as well as staff working for national and local organisations,
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Education in Emergency Toolkit

This document offers a tool kit regarding education in emergencies. The first section attempts to clarify  what is meant by education in emergencies. It goes on to  explore which children are typically affected by an  emergency and how their education opportunities may have  changed.

The second section outlines a process, in the form of key  questions, that can be used for putting together an  education initiative. Next comes a discussion on how  education principles are still valid in times of  emergencies, but will need
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Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide

This guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for Maternal and Child Health/Child Survival (MCH/CS) and income related activities. The focus is on the collection and reporting of indicators to improve program management and document progress towards the achievement of results. Chapters are included on:

- Anthropometric evaluation and annual monitoring indicators

- Collecting anthropometric data through surveys

- Weighing and measuring equipment

- Taking measurements

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Children in War Information Kit

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IFRC
Containing short papers that are updated every year, this kit describes activities carried out by the ICRC to restore family links, provide care and protect unaccompanied children and child soldiers, among others. It contains, among others, the following papers:

- Children and War
- Legal protection of children in armed conflict
- Summary table of IHL provisions specifically applicable to children
- What is protection for the ICRC?
- Assisting Children in War
- Communication programmes for young people
- Mine/UXO risk education programmes and children
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Preparing for the Unexpected

This booklet outlines some practical steps to help you be better prepared for an emergency and to let you know what to do if one occurs. The following sections are developped:

- Preparing for emergencies
- What to do if an emergency occurs
- How to cope emotionally
- First aid tips.

The document is intended for those who have never experienced a major emergency and wish to understand better which impact an emergency can have on them and their family.
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Guidelines for Psychological Services Practice - Final Draft

The purpose of these guidelines is to offer practitioners with insights, principles and strategies in key facets of assessment and delivery of psychological services in the disaster context. They aim to facilitate recovery, ensure ethical practice and to protect victims and support workers in their respective roles and have been endorsed by the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. The following sections are developped:

- Basis for the provision of psychological services
- Concepts of the psychological effects in disaters
- Psychological service providers
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Handbook for Estimating the Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects of Disasters

This new version of the ECLAC Handbook describes the methods required to assess the social, economic and environmental effects of disasters, breaking them down into direct damages and indirect losses and into overall and macroeconomic effects. It focuses on the conceptual and methodological aspects of measuring or estimating the damage caused by disasters to capital stocks and losses in the production flows of goods and services, as well as any temporary effects on the main macroeconomic variables. This new edition also contemplates both damage to and effects
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Amnesty International Annual Report 2003

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Amnesty
This report documents human rights abuses in 151 countries and territories during 2002, providing studies of individual countries as well as regional summaries. In addition, it discusses the following themes:

- 'Counter-terrorism' and human rights
- International Criminal Court
- Death penalty
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Gender Approaches in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations

This manual on gender approaches aims to support and strengthen the capacity of UNDP staff working on recovery and rehabilitation activities in crisis and post-conflict situations to mainstream gender equality objectives. For this purpose, it looks at the following issues:

Key concepts and issues
- Gender analysis
- Gender policies
- Evolution of policy approaches towards women and development
- Myths about gender mainstreaming

Womens' rights are human rights
- Political participation as a basic human right
- Economic and social rights
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Global Humanitarian Assistance 2003

This document describes the global trends in humanitarian assistance for the year 2003. It focuses especially on the financial aspects of humanitarian assistance. The following topics are discussed:

- Trends in humanitarian assistance
- Defining humanitarian assistance flows
- Which International Organisations deliver humanitarian assistance and what do they do?

The document is part of Development Initiatives' ongoing monitoring and analysis of voluntary and official flows for development cooperation and humanitarian assistance.
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OCHA Annual Report 2002

This annual financial report provides details of how the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has used its extrabudgetary funds to carry out its planned activities. For this purpose, it considers the following aspects:

- Financial information and analysis
- Headquarters core activities and projects
- Field coordination activities

Providing an account of actual income and expenditures and highlighting OCHA's planned activities, achievements, and some of the lessons learned, the document forms part of OCHA's annual
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.

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Handbook of Best Practices on Small Arms and Light Weapons

Seeking to help cut down the amount of illegally-held weaponry in circulation, this handbook contains a set of guidelines outlining best practice guides on the following topics:

 - National controls over manufacture of small arms and light weapons (SALW)
 - Marking, record-keeping and traceability of SALW
 - National procedures for stockpile management and security
 - National control of brokering activities
 - Definition and indicators of a surplus of SALW
 - National procedures for the destruction of SALW
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The Power of the Media: Handbook for Peacebuilders

This book provides a set of guidelines on the processes which make media interventions in conflict situations effective and sustainable. The book is divided in three parts:

Part I: Media and peace building: operational framework, evaluation, lessons learned
Part II: Case studies selected in twelve different countries
Part III: A directory with 69 profiles of organisations working in this field worldwide

Building on an existing body of research and experience in the field, the books is aimed at people specialized in peace-building.
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Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response

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Sphere Project
Aiming to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance as well as the accountability of humanitarian agencies, this handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance.

The Humanitarian Charter describes the core principles that govern humanitarian action and asserts the right of populations to protection and assistance. Defining the legal responsibilities of states and parties to guarantee the right to assistance and protection, it is based on principles and provisions of international humanitarian,
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Towards a Comprehensive Approach of Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Needs of Women Displaced by War and Armed Conflict: A Practical Guide for Programme Officers

Focusing on sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict, this guide provides a tool for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian aid programmes.

 Assuming sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, the guide sees the promotion and protection of these as integral to all humanitarian relief operations and aims to assist in forming a comprehensive, gender and culture sensitive approach of displaced women's sexual and reproductive health.

The guide was based on a preliminary literature
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Natural Catastrophes and Man-Made Disasters in 2002: High Flood Loss Burden

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Swiss Re
Reporting on developments and relevant issues concerning catastrophe insurance in the year 2002, this document contains information on the following:

- Summary of events and trends
- Catastrophes in 2002
- Floods - a growing challenge
- Tables for reporting year 2002
- Tables on the major losses 1970 - 2002

The information is based on newspapers, direct insurance and reinsurance periodicals, specialist publications, and reports from insurers and reinsurers.
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Alert 2003: Report on Conflicts, Human Rights and Peacebuilding

This annual report examining conflicts, human rights and peace-building world-wide provides an overview of the world situation at the end of the year on the basis of an analysis of various indicators.

Eight main themes are examined: conduct in relation to the international community, arms embargoes, militarisation, human rights, development, humanitarian crises, conflict and peace building, and International Humanitarian Law.

The report seeks to provide greater knowledge of the advances, reverses and dynamics of various kinds that affect the
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Refugee Reproductive Health Needs Assessment Field Tools

These tools seek to assist relief workers in refugee and displaced person settings in gathering information to assess attitudes toward reproductive health practices and local medical practices/policies, the extent of needed service and the degree to which current services provide what is needed.

To be used in conjunction with the Inter-agency Field Manual, the following five tools are offered:

- Refugee leader questions
- Group discussion questions
- Survey (for analysis by computer)
- Survey (for analysis by hand)

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Play to Win: Final Report of the bi-partisan Commission on Post-Conflict Reconstruction

This report looks at top priority issues that the United States needs to address in terms of its strategic approaches towards failed states, in order to enable them to successfully rebuild themselves following conflict. For this purpose, it looks at the following main issues:

- Challenge of failed states
- Commission on post-conflict reconstruction
- Framework for a cohesive and strategic international response
- Role of the United States
- Enhancing U.S. response capabilities
- Road ahead

The report makes specific recommendations
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