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Health facilities centers in the West Bank

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2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic

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UNAIDS
This report describes the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 2004. It stresses that although the world is significantly increasing its commitment and resources to the epidemic, AIDS shows no sign of weakening. The report is divided into the following sections:

 - Overcoming AIDS: the "Next Agenda"
 - A global overview of the epidemic
 - The impact of AIDS on people and societies
 - Bringing comprehensive HIV prevention to scale
 - Treatment, care and support for people living with HIV
 - Financing the response to AIDS
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UNHCR Global Report 2003

This report describes UNHCR's operations in every region of the world in 2003. It highlights UNHCR's work in partnership with other agencies and gives visibility to the financial supporters. In this connection, the donor profiles include a detailed breakdown of donors' contributions at regional, subregional, country and sectoral levels.

The report is intended to meet the reporting requirements of as many donors as possible and should be read against the 2003 Global Appeal (published in December 2002), which described the main operations, planned activities and financial requirements
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Annual Review 2003-2004

This document is a report of the main actions undertaken by International Alert in 2003-2004 in the following areas:

- Peace-building in conflict regions
- Independent research, analysis and advocacy in conflict regions
- Research and advocacy on conflict issues.
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Checklist for Action - Prevention & Response to Gender-Based Violence in Displaced Settings

This document provides a checklist to prevention and response to gender-based violence in displaced settings. The checklist covers the following aspects:

- Coordination and Planning
- Staff Awareness Raising and Training
- Staff Management Responsibilities (Accountability)
- Prevent GBV by Providing Adequate Humanitarian Assistance and Services
- Put in Place Systems to Respond to the Needs of the Survivor
- Sector-by-Sector Actions for Prevention and Response to
- Gender-Based Violence.

The document was produced by The Gender-Based
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Strengthening the Coordination of Emergency Humanitarian Assistance of the United Nations Report of the Secretary-General A/59 /__-E/2004/__

This report examines some of the key humanitarian developments and challenges of the year 2003-2004. Some of the key issues addressed relate to natural disaster management and the challenges of obtaining sustainable humanitarian access to populations affected by conflict. Developments on key humanitarian policy initiatives are also highlighted. They include updates on efforts to strengthen policies and actions related to the transition from relief to development, gender and humanitarian action, humanitarian financing and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian
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Measuring the Impact of Humanitarian Aid: A Review of Current Practice

This report investigates the current state of the art in measuring and analysing the impact of humanitarian assistance. It is concerned with questions on how impact can be measured, why this is increasingly being demanded, and whether it is possible to do it better. It also explores the benefits, dangers and costs that paying greater attention to impact might entail. The document is divided into the following sections:

  - The impact of humanitarian aid: definitions, objectives and context
  - Measuring and analysing impact: methods, indicators and constraints
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2003 Global Refugee Trends: Overview of Refugee Populations, New Arrivals, Durable Solutions, Asylum-Seekers and Other Persons of Concern to UNHCR

This report summarizes global levels and trends in the population of concern to UNHCR: refugees, asylum-seekers and others of concern. The document is divided into 19 tables and offers information on:

- Refugee arrivals
- Voluntary repatriation
- Resettlement
- Local integration
- Characteristics of the population.

The data, reported by UNHCR country offices, generally reflect the view of the host country.
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Joint Assessment Guidelines (with Tools and Resource Materials)

This document provides guidelines to ensure effective collaboration in the planning and organization of all joint UNHCR-WFP assessment activities, adherence to agreed procedures and standards, the consistent production of reliable information, and the effective use and analysis of that information. The document is divided as follow:

Part I: Overview and procedures
Part II: Guidance and tools for joint assessment teams

The aim of these guidelines is to ensure effective collaboration in the planning and organization of all joint UNHCR-WFP
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On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations

Aimed at reporters in conflict zones and hostile areas, this report provides an overview of security issues and includes information on training courses, protective equipment, and insurance policies. It also offer useful tips on assessing, minimizing and managing risk.

This guide should be read not just by those in the field and those covering dangerous assignments, but also by the media managers who send journalists on those assignments. For managers, the safety of their journalists should be paramount. This means discouraging
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Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): A new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond

Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond. Conceived by Valid International, CTC seeks to address some of the challenges that traditional center-based approaches face.3 It aims to provide rapid, effective, low cost assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities and builds a foundation to link relief and development interventions for long-term solutions to food insecurity and threats to public health. CTC aims to treat the majority of the severely malnourished at home, build
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Aid agencies must think about how people are living, not dying

Gerald Martone and Hope Neighbor describe how saving lives can be used as an "emergency alibi" by relief organizations in order to speed up decision-making. Unfortunately, it is also used as an excuse for breaches of good craftsmanship or non-compliance with conventional best practices.

The purpose with this article is to show that immediate humanitarian needs in disasters can destabilise victims' future well-being and that a long-term view of emergency assistance gives rise to greater short and long-term benefits to the victims.
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Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): A New Approach to Managing Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies and Beyond

Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond. Conceived by Valid International, CTC seeks to address some of the challenges that traditional center-based approaches face. It aims to provide rapid, effective, low cost assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities and builds a foundation to link relief and development interventions for long-term solutions to food insecurity and threats to public health. CTC aims to treat the majority of the severely malnourished at home, build local capacity
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Turning Bureaucrats into Warriors

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World Bank
These guidelines on preparing and implementing multi-sector HIV-AIDS programs are based on many lessons learned in Africa over the last three years and are designed as a generic operations manual (GOM) from which countries and implementing agencies can learn and adapt for their own use. The GOM is also meant to support the principles for concerted action at country level, the recently promoted "Three Ones" which are aimed at achieving the most effective and efficient use of available resources and ensuring rapid action and results-based managaement:
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Manejo de Alojamientos Temporales: Albergues

La comisión de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias de Costa Rica (CNE), como ente encargado de velar por la prevención y la mitigación del riesgo, y la atención y rehabilitación de las emergencias en Costa Rica, para evitar o minimizar el dano que nos producen los desastres, ha organizado planes de emergencia para ser aplicados en nuestros hogares, centros de trabajo las comunidades, para garantizar comunidades seguras y preparadas.

La situación de desastre coloca a toda una comunidad en una circunstancia de cambio agudo para lo cual no estaba
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Plan para la Movilización Preventiva de Poblaciones

Costa Rica es un país que constantemente tiene que enfrentar situaciones de emergencia en las diferentes regiones. Las causas a veces tienen su origen en manifestaciones de la naturaleza y en otras ocasiones, en el hombre.

Por esta razón, el Area de Formación y Capacitación de la Dirección de Gestión en Desastres, siguiendo las nuevas politicas fijadas por la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias, se ha inpuesto la tarea de producir actualizar el material educativo utilizable en los procesos de capacitación dirigidos a las organizaciones