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Power, Livelihoods and Conflict: Case Studies in Political Economy Analysis for Humanitarian Action

This study aims to identify and test analytical and methodological tools that humanitarian agencies can use to understand the complex and difficult environments in which they work, as well as identify key themes arising from political economy analysis with direct or indirect implications for humanitarian aid interventions.

The research looked at four country case studies; the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan.

The paper is part of an effort exploring how improved political analysis might strengthen relief interventions by
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Corporate Actors in Zones of Conflicts: Responsible Engagement

With foreign companies potentially able to significantly contribute to developing countries through transfer of capital, know-how, technology etc., this report aims to provide a checklist to be used as a tool for enterprises to make sure that their engagement in conflict zones is socially responsible.

For this purpose, a checklist is provided with respect to the following:

- Legitimate purpose of business operations (Right intention)
- Reasonable hope of success
- Direct and indirect responsibility (Double effect)
- Legitimate authority
- Openness
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Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Follow-up to the World Conference on Human Rights (E/CN.4/2003/14)

This report outlines some of the urgent protection challenges facing the Commission of Human Rights and the international community. For this purpose, it looks at the following issues:

- Need for stronger protection of human rights
- Upholding human dignity, equality, security and human rights
- Reform and modernization of the human rights programme
- Activities of the Office for the protection of human rights under the rule of law
- Concluding observations

The annual report is the first by the UN
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Gender and Water Resource Guide

This guide has been developed to assist practitioners in mainstreaming gender within the context of integrated water resources management (IWRM), building on existing initiatives by summarising available tools and materials on gender mainstreaming in IWRM.

To be used in conjunction with the texts and materials to which it refers, the guide gives a brief overview and summary of issues within the different categories of IWRM and is designed to raise awareness and promote learning and analysis on the relevant social equity and gender issues.

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Measuring Humanitarian Need: A Critical Review of Needs Assessment Practice and Its Influence on Resource Allocation

This paper explores the link between needs assessment and decision-making by agencies and donors about response and resource allocation.

Examining global funding disparities, i.e. levels of funding not correlating to levels of need and most urgent cases not consistently prioritized, the paper also considers the lack of a consistent and objective basis for deciding which those cases are, and the means for deciding about the allocation of resources between competing priorities in the humanitarian 'system'.

The paper is based on five case studies and
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Partnership: An Operations Management Handbook for UNHCR's Partners

Aiming to present programme procedures in a practical and easy to follow format, with appropriate checklists and guidelines, this handbook seeks to provide all necessary information to ensure effective and efficient working partnership with UNHCR. For this purpose, it examines the following:

- UNHCR mandate and organisation
- UNHCR's operations
- Planning
- Project management and implementation
- Monitoring, reporting and evaluation
- Refugee emergencies

The handbook should be read in the broader
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Education in Emergencies: Field Guidelines

These guidelines provide managers, programme and technical staff with guidance in the management of refugee education programmes to ensure that access, quality and equity in education are improved.

For this purpose, they translate policy into practical and operational terms, helping field staff and implementing partners to take concrete actions on a range of education issues.  

Developed to promote the universal application of standards in the education sector and a harmonized approach to a wide range of refugee education needs, the guidelines are primarily based on
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Politics and Humanitarianism: Coherence in Crisis?

In its examination of the interaction of humanitarian work and politics, this document looks at the terms such interaction should take as well as interest trade-offs necessary to ensure the provision of assistance, protection as well as longer-term changes to bring peace. The study is based on case studies undertaken during 2002, of Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan, and includes the following chapters:

- Genesis of the coherence debate
- Coherence and humanitarian action
- Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and the coherence debate
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Integration of the human rights of women and the gender perspective

The report contains a detailed review of international, regional and national developments and best practices for ways and means of combating violence against women over the period 1994-2003.

Contents
- The international developments in the area of violence against women
- Regional and national developments in the area of violence against women
- Country specific reports divided according to regions, African Region, Arab Region, Asia Pacific Region, The Americas, and European Region
- Best practices in fighting violence against women
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Addressing the "In" in Food Insecurity

"To put it bluntly, the state of food insecurity in the world is not good." So begins the 2002 United Nations Food and Agriculture's Organization's (FAO) review of global food security status and trends. At the same time, there has been some success in reducing poverty and malnutrition during the 1990s, and the importance of such progress should not be underestimated. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through programmatic improvements based on the 1995 Food Aid and Food Security Policy, played an important role in these relative
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Terror and hunger haunt northern Uganda

Northern Uganda's humanitarian crisis is worse than ever. Terrorised by rebels and haunted by hunger, nearly one million IDPs are crammed into 60 impoverished IDP camps.
Kampala, February 1 - Northern Uganda is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since rebels took up arms against the government over a decade ago.

The number of displaced people needing food aid in the region has risen from 520,000 to 800,000 since last July, when the Ugandan government launched a fresh offensive - Operation Iron Fist - to root out rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) bases.

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Sri Lankan rebels assure visiting UNICEF chief of release of child soldiers

Colombo (dpa) - Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka have assured the visiting UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy that they will release the child soldiers who have joined their movement.
Bellamy, before ending a three-day visit to Sri Lanka on Saturday, told journalists that the rebels had agreed to discuss steps regarding the discharge of child soldiers.

The visiting UNICEF chief during a meeting with the Tamil rebel political wing leader, S.P. Thamil Chelvam had raised the issue about rebels continuing to recruit children to their forces.

Bellamy said the rebels have agreed to

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Georgia: Abkhaz side ready to start talks on return of IDPs in Gali district

(Tbilisi February 1, 2003. Civil Georgia) - At the meeting with Valeri Loshchinin, Russian President's special envoy for the Abkhazian conflict settlement, de facto Abkhaz Prime Minister Genadi Gagulia said that the Abkhaz side is ready to discuss with the Georgian side issue of return of IDPs to the Gali district of breakaway Abkhazia.
Russian Foreign Ministry reported on January 31 that during the meeting issue of the Russian peacekeeping forces, deployed in the conflict zone under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States was also discussed.
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U.N. alarmed by foreign troop buildup in Congo

KINSHASA, (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday it was concerned about a buildup of foreign troops in northeastern Congo, where rebels have been accused of murder, cannibalism and rape despite a peace accord.
The spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Congo, Hamadoun Toure, said Uganda and Rwanda had sent troops into Kivu and Ituri, mineral-rich regions of Congo divided into an ever-shifting patchwork of rebel factions and armed bands.

Clashes in the northeast have persisted despite the peace deal signed last year to end four years of war that drew

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International monitors call for full peace deal in Sudan's Nuba mountains

KHARTOUM, Feb 1 (AFP) - International observers in Sudan's central Nuba mountains on Saturday called for the region's ceasefire to be transformed into a full-fledged peace deal between the government and southern rebels.

"Instead of continuing as an accord for cessation of military operations, the ceasefire agreement should be transformed into a peace agreement," the chief of the observer mission, Brigadier General Jean Wilhelmsen, told a press conference here.

The Norwegian officer heads the Joint

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Iraqi Kurds call for aid to prevent refugee crisis

By Jon Hemming
ARBIL, Iraq, (Reuters) - Iraq's breakaway Kurds appealed on Saturday for aid to prevent a repeat of the 1991 exodus of refugees across the mountains during which thousands died from cold, starvation, or government forces' gunfire.

Many ordinary Kurds have already stocked up on essentials, and are closely following news of U.S. preparations for a possible war against Iraq to decide when to quit their homes and head for their only traditional ally -- the mountains.

"Any assistance, any help from anybody,

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Burundi rebels killing, kidnapping civilians: witnesses

BUJUMBURA, Feb 1 (AFP) - A hardline Hutu rebel group in Burundi, which has refused to join others in signing peace accords with the government, has begun kidnapping and killing civilians near the capital, witnesses said Saturday.
Men of the National Liberation Forces (FNL) murdered seven people in two districts of Bujumbura-Rural province around the capital in the past five days "and five more were killed the week before," a local farmer said.

Among those murdered were two women and a local government official, added the farmer, who asked not to be named

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Peru: Floods Information Bulletin No. 1

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This bulletin is being issued based on the needs described below reflecting the information available at this time. Based on further updates and details from assessment reports, or should the situation deteriorate, the Federation will consider international support through an Appeal.
The Situation

On 14 November 2002, the Peruvian government extended the emergency situation in nine departments in Peru for a further 60 days. Although persistent rains in the plains and in the central forested regions are usual for the time of year, flooding this year is particularly

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Angola: WFP beneficiaries to be over two million people

Luanda, 02/01 - The World Food Program (WFP) foresees that the number of people it provides food aid to in Angola can go up to 2.1 million until the next harvest season in April/May 2003, against the average number of recipients (1.7 million people).
These figures were forwarded by the American, James Morris, WFP Executive Director, in a press conference attended by the directors of that UN agency for Southern Africa and Angola, respectively Judith Lewis and Francisco Roque Castro.

That UN officer stressed that, by mid

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India: Gujarat earthquake - an update two years later

By Jim Lane
On January 26th, 2001, Gujarat province in India experienced one of the two most catastrophic earthquakes in history. The earthquake, rated at 7.9 magnitude, left an estimated 25,000 people dead, 200,000 people injured, an estimated 600,000 people homeless, with over 348,000 homes destroyed and an additional 844,000 damaged. An estimated 15.9M people out of a population of 38.9M in the region were directly or indirectly affected by the quake, with losses estimated between$1.3B and $5B.

It is important to note that the high