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01 Oct 2008

World
UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2008 Mid-Year Review

Report
— UN Children's Fund
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The Humanitarian Action Report 2008 included 39 countries and 6 regional chapters from the following UNICEF regions: Asia and the Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern and Southern Africa, Middle East and North Africa, the Americas and Carribean and West and Central Africa.

At the beginning of the report, you can find an overview of the UNICEF humanitarian action financial requirements. The overall initial HAR 2008 requirement amounted to US$ 855,367,446. The overall revised HAR requirement as of July 2008, has been US$ 917,203,566.
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01 Oct 2008

World
Local Voices, Global Choices: for Successful Disaster Risk Reduction - A collection of case studies about community-centre partnerships for DRR

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— Bond
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The second Wednesday of October each year is set-aside for the International Day of Disaster Reduction. This year it falls of the 8th Oct. The purpose of this day is to raise awareness, internationally, of the ongoing importance of disaster risk reduction.

A year like 2008 only highlights the urgency of this need. This year will probably go down in history as a year with one of the highest numbers of victims of natural catastrophes (Munich Re).

The largest number of events ever recorded in one year, was 960 in 2007. Most of these were weather related and generated
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01 Oct 2008

World
Humanitarian Coordinators Pool Mapping Exercise Report

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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This report is divided into six sections

Section 1 outlines the background and methodology of the Mapping Exercise. More than 200 stakeholders where contacted by email to provide input. Of these, over 100 where also either interviewed face to face or interviewed by phone from operational humanitarian United Nations agencies on the IASC, International Organizations (ICRC, IFRC, IOM), NGO Consortia, key NGO humanitarian agencies and large Red Cross National Societies, key donors on UNOCHA support network, and humanitarian standard and quality projects dealing with personnel.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Oct 2008

World
Participatory Impact Assessment - A Guide for Practitioners

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— Tufts University
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The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, this guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector. Other than in some health, nutrition, and water interventions in which indicators of project performance should relate to international standards, for many
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01 Oct 2008

World
Humanitarian Action and Older Persons: An Essential Brief for Humanitarian Actors

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— Inter-Agency Standing Committee
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Older persons are entitled to equal protection under international human rights and humanitarian law. Building awareness about the rights and needs of older persons is the first step to reducing their marginalization during and after crises and enabling them to continue supporting themselves and others.
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01 Oct 2008

World
The Use of Private Security Providers and Services in Humanitarian Operations

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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Executive summary

As conditions of insecurity continue to challenge international humanitarian operations in many countries around the world, aid organisations have adopted a number of different measures in response. Among the most controversial of these measures has been the contracting of commercial entities to provide security services for operations and personnel. In the highly sensitive and sometimes polarised debate on the issue, two contrasting opinions are often heard. One side sounds the alarm that the privatisation of security seen in military and diplomatic
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01 Oct 2008

World
Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: National, Regional and International Interactions - A Regional Case Study On the Role of the Affected State in Humanitarian Action

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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This report describes the institutional structures and mechanisms put in place to deal with disasters. These include (a) the organisational networks that have been created at the regional and sub-regional levels to cope with and enhance responses to disasters and to link with national mechanisms in the member countries; and (b) the international organisations, including NGOs, operating regionally and
nationally. The nature of the regional and international operations is a major focus of this report.

Second, referring to the disaster emergencies
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01 Oct 2008

World
The Role of the Affected State in Humanitarian Action: A Case study on Pakistan

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— ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group
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This paper is divided into 9 chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the way disaster management institutions are structured, and give a brief overview of the history of disaster relief in Pakistan since its formation in 1947. Chapter 4 looks at the capacity of state institutions, in particular at the interesting balance of power between national and local state capacity on the one hand, and military and civilian authority on the other. Chapter 5 provides an outline of disaster management capacity, broadening the research limits
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01 Oct 2008

World
Improving Lives: Results from the partnership of the United Nations and the European Commission in 2007

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— United Nations
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In 2007, the European Commission and specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations cooperated in development and humanitarian efforts in 102 countries across all regions of the world.

What follows are just some of the results supported by the partnership, which are further elaborated in subsequent chapters. The results belong first and foremost to the governments and citizens of the countries since they were achieved principally through their leadership. In the majority of cases, these were part of broader
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01 Oct 2008

World
AusAID Annual Report 2007-2008

Report
— Australian Agency for International Development
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The year in review

2007-08 was an exciting year for Australia's international development assistance program. The government announced that Australia would increase its official development assistance (ODA) to 0.5 per cent of gross national income by 2015 to assist our developing country partners to make progress against the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), building on growth over the previous budget period. Australia's pledge came against a backdrop of renewed international commitment to accelerate MDG attainment globally. New partnerships were initiated with some of our
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01 Oct 2008

World
Statistics on International Development 2008

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— Department for International Development
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Statistics on International Development 2008 shows how official UK financial resources for international development are spent. Expenditure is broken down by destination country or organisation, type of assistance and purpose. The majority of the data are produced on a cash basis in line with international reporting standards and are therefore not directly comparable with those reported in DFID's Departmental Report or resource accounts.
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01 Oct 2008

Central African Republic
New fund gives $2.5 million to priority projects in the Central African Republic

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(New York/Geneva/Bangui, 1 October 2008): The new Common Humanitarian Fund has allocated $ 2.5 million to 16 priority projects in the Central African Republic. With this funding, aid agencies will protect the lives of newly displaced people, provide health care and water to people struck by violence, ensure the survival of infants and young children and help the displaced who are returning to destroyed villages to restart their lives.

"The pooled fund will help to make humanitarian action in the country more efficient and better coordinated,"

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Oct 2008

Syrian Arab Republic
United Nations launches appeal for aid to Syria

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(New York, 1 October 2008): The United Nations today launched an appeal for $ 20,228,570 to work with governmental partners and non-governmental organisations to help up to one million drought-affected people in Syria for a period of six months.

Syria is currently experiencing a drought that is by far the worst over the past four decades. The Syrian Government has estimated that up to one million people--predominantly herders and

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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01 Oct 2008

Afghanistan + 4 others
Hunger's global hotspots: 01 Oct 2008

Report
— World Food Programme
Rome, 1 October 2008 - Facts, figures and the lastest updates from WFP's high profile emergencies.

Afghanistan

- Under emergency assistance, approximately 2,000 battle and flood affected people have benefited from WFP food assistance in Laghman and Nangarhar provinces. The food was provided based on joint assessment made by Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) and UN agencies.

- WFP has planned to dispatch 36,000 mt food intended for 520,000 recipients for winter pre-positioning. The food will be pre-positioned in 23 provinces which will be inaccessible

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01 Oct 2008

Nepal
Nepal: NRCS mobilized its best capacity in relief services

Report
— Nepal Red Cross Society
Monika Khatun, 70, has no more than her two daughters, a calf and in depth the memory of the regretful past. The hot sunny days of September pass under one bush or other at the bank of Koshi river looking after the calf. "Our poor but a small family was happy in Haripur village whereby the river flows", she sobs, "but it has become a story of the past." Like Khatun, about 6,500 families are living under emergency shelter in Saptari and more than 7,500 families in Sunsari district, the other side of the Koshi river. Only few of them
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01 Oct 2008

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Essential medicines delivered to conflict-displaced people in Dungu, DRC

Report
— Medair
International humanitarian NGO Medair, active in northeastern DRC for over a decade, has committed resources from its Emergency Fund to provide urgently needed drugs and health care support for thousands of people displaced by recent outbreaks of conflict.

The UN has confirmed that villages in Dungu territory were attacked by militia from the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on 17 September. OCHA estimates that between 43,000 and 100,000 people have been displaced in Dungu territory.

Medair's health supervisors have witnessed

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01 Oct 2008

Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Complex Emergency Situation Report #7 (FY 2008)

Report
— US Agency for International Development
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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA)
OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA)

Note: The last situation report was dated September 4, 2008.

BACKGROUND

Consecutive seasons of failed rains, exacerbated by a rapidly growing population, rising inflation, endemic poverty, and limited government capacity, have led to chronic food insecurity and water shortages in Ethiopia. Approximately 7.2 million people receive food or cash assistance through the Government of the Federal Democratic

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01 Oct 2008

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Renewed fighting hits civilians

Report
— ICRC
On 28 August 2008, fighting resumed between the armed forces of the DRC, the armed opposition movement of the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple and other armed groups. The situation in North and South Kivu worsened drastically, forcing around 100,000 people to flee their homes and exacerbating the plight of the civilian population. Max Hadorn, the ICRC's head of delegation in the DRC, describes the seriousness of the humanitarian situation and talks about what the ICRC is doing to help.

Fighting in the two Kivus has intensified

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