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Evaluation of Somalia Drought Response 2011/12

Report
Oxfam

This report presents the findings of an effectiveness review carried out on Oxfam's response to the 2010/11 drought-related food crisis in Somalia, undertaken through the application of Oxfam's Humanitarian Indicator Tool. For a slow onset crisis, where there was an established early-warning system, Oxfam was slow to react. Having scaled-up its internal capacity, the programme was notable for taking on the challenge needed to expand and ensure that a significant proportion was focused in the worst affected areas and, ultimately, providing assistance to over 900,000 people.

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Accountability starter pack

Report
Oxfam

Purpose of this pack

This guide is for those staff who would like to learn more about how to implement activities that are accountable to people and communities. It is primarily aimed at country-level staff responsible for implementing development or humanitarian projects and programmes.

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National mine action strategic plan 2012 - 2016

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  1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The South Sudan national mine action strategic plan was developed by the South Sudan Mine Action Authority, with the assistance of the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre (UNMACC) and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD).

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Afghanistan: Emergency Response Funds - Mapping for 2010 - 2011

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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How to guide to conflict sensitivity

Conflict Sensitivity Consortium (with support from DFID) has been working since 2008 to enhance the impact of development, humanitarian aid and peacebuilding programming through increased and more effective integration of conflict sensitivity. This experience (drawing from 35 member agencies in 4 countries) has culminated in the production of 'The how to guide to conflict sensitivity'.

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North, South & West State: WFP Food Security Monitoring System (FSMS) Round 12 (February 2012)  

Executive Summary

• February is the post‐harvest period, when food availability at household level typically improves and cereal prices are comparatively lower due to availability of food from production at household level. However, crop production in the 2011/12 agricultural season was poor, with findings from a post‐harvest assessment conducted in December 2011, estimating a cereal gap of 147,830 metric tones (MT).

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Relevance or Excellence? Setting Research Priorities for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Settings

Background: Humanitarian crises are associated with an increase in mental disorders and psychological distress. Despite the emerging consensus on intervention strategies in humanitarian settings, the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in humanitarian settings lacks a consensus-based research agenda.

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INEE Minimum Standards Assessment Report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The focus of the assessment was to understand awareness of the INEE Minimum Standards (MS), how they are being used, and how they are institutionalized in plans and policies1. In particular, the assessment aimed to measure the value added of the INEE Minimum Standards Handbook to date as a tool for:

  • Advocacy

  • Coordination

  • Program planning and response

  • Research

  • Institutional change

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Haiti + 9 others
CCRIF Quarterly Report: 1 December 2011 - 29 February 2012

INTRODUCTION

This report, for the period 1 December 2011 – 29 February 2012, is the third quarterly report in the 2011/2012 fiscal and policy year for CCRIF. It is designed to provide an update on progress during this quarter towards achievement of CCRIF’s Strategic Objectives (see Figure 1) as defined in the CCRIF Strategic Plan 2009/2010 – 2011/2012. In providing this progress update, this quarterly report also illustrates how the Facility upholds its customer values.

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Somebody help: The forgotten population of Jebel Si in North Darfur is left without healthcare as MSF struggles to continue its medical activities in the region

Report
MSF

In the remote Jebel Si area of North Darfur, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a hospital, five health posts, and a mobile clinic. These are the only health facilities in the area, and they serve a permanent population of 100,000, as well as about 10,000 seasonal nomads. The majority of MSF’s patients in Jebel Si are women and children.

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Haiti + 2 others
Incorporating Sexual and Reproductive Health into Emergency Preparedness and Planning

Lessons learned from national-level efforts in Haiti, Uganda and South Sudan

Summary

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Innovative Financing in Early Recovery: The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund

In post-conflict Liberia, the National Health Plan set out a process for transitioning from emergency to sustainability under government leadership.

The Liberia Health Sector Pool Fund, which consists of DfID, Irish Aid, UNICEF, and UNHCR, was established to fund this plan and mitigate this transition by increasing institutional capacity, reducing the transaction costs associated with managing multiple donor projects, and fostering the leadership of the Liberian Health Ministry by allocating funds to national priorities.

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Lebanon + 2 others
Eighteenth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) (S/2012/124)

I. Introduction

  1. The present report provides a comprehensive assessment of the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) since the last report of the Secretary-General (S/2011/715) was issued on 14 November 2011.

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Kenya's New Constitution and Conflict Transformation

The infamous 2007/8 post-election violent conflict that engulfed Kenya and attracted global attention was by no means unprecedented. Indeed, the country’s history includes episodes of violent conflict, some of the causes of which are still unresolved. A repeated failure to address the root causes of these violent conflicts has occasioned their reoccurrence and further entrenched their underlying factors, such as impunity, weak accountability in governance, corruption, politicised ethnicity, inequitable resource distribution, poverty and marginalisation.

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The Legacy of War Time Rape: Mapping Key Concepts and Issues

At this conference researchers and practitioners gathered to map key concepts and issues related to war time rape. The cooperation between the PRIO gender group, and the "International network for interdiscipinary research on children born of war [INIRC]" offered the opportunity to draw upon contracts from different networks of researchers and practitioners who for many years have worked on rape, war, traumatisation, children born of war, perpetrators, reconciliation etc., but who had not yet had the opportunity to exchange information and share knowledge in these areas.

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Glossary for DNA (Disaster Needs Analysis)

Access - The ability to approach, obtain and make use of goods and services (GPCWG 2011).

Affected areas - Provinces or municipalities affected by the hazard…Not all people in those areas [will] necessarily require humanitarian response – normally only a percentage of the people in the affected area require humanitarian assistance (IASC 2011).

Affected population - People requiring immediate assistance during an emergency, including basic survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance (GPCWG 2011).

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Ethiopia + 2 others
Drought Contingency Plans and Planning in the Greater Horn of Africa - A desktop review of the effectiveness of drought contingency plans and planning in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia

Executive Summary

This paper is a UNISDR contribution towards effective Drought Contingency Planning (DCP) for stakeholders and partners implementing drought risk reduction programmes in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). It attempts to convert findings, concepts and guidelines into a guidance document from critical gaps to bridge general drought preparedness, contingency planning and early response.