This guide on disaster assessment and response, now at version 4, can be used as a reference for individuals sent to disaster sites to perform initial assessments or to members of an OFDA Disaster Assistance Response Team. Information is provided on the following themes:

- General responsibilities and information
- Assessments
- Information on populations at risk
- Disaster assistance response team
- Forms and instructions
- Reference information
- Commonly used acronyms and terminology

The guide aims to be of interest to

This Report is about the scale of the challenge facing the world at the start of the 10-year countdown to 2015. Its focus is on what governments in rich countries can do to keep their side of the global partnership bargain. This does not imply that governments in developing countries have no responsibility. On the contrary, they have primary responsibility. No amount of international cooperation can compensate for the actions of governments that fail to prioritize human development, to respect human rights, to tackle inequality or to root out corruption. But without a renewed

Gender equality is a human right, one of the Millennium Development Goals and key to achieving the other seven. The UN Millennium Project concluded that reproductive health is essential to achieving the MDGs, including the goal of gender equality. Investments in gender equality and reproductive health offer multiple rewards that can accelerate social and economic progress, with lasting impact on future generations.

The conclusions of the experts are clear: Investing in gender equality, reproductive health and young people's development

Immunization does not simply raise the chances that children will resist disease: it virtually guarantees that they will. But millions of children remain unimmunized, and each year 1.4 million children under five die from diseases that are entirely preventable. This volume of Progress for Children reports on immunization, a key to the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality.

Over 60 non-governmental organizations gathered on September 25-26 for the North South Civil Society Conference on Refugee Warehousing. Organized by a range of refugee and faith-based groups, the conference drew civil society actors from over 15 countries to learn from one another and to collaborate on strategies to help refugees gain their basic rights. This report outlines the next steps and recommendations and covers the following areas:

A. General Comments and Principal Goals
B. Advocacy Strategies and Methods
C. Additional Areas for Advocacy

This document is intended to reflect on C-SAFE's collective experience with exit strategies, improve our understanding, and provide guidance to NGO staff for developing effective exit strategies in the field. The goal of this guidance document is to improve our collective understanding and ability to develop and implement sound exit strategies from developmental relief programs by:

• looking at some key concepts and terminology related to Exit Strategies (borrowed primarily from the FANTA technical note on Exit Strategies, November 2004);
• discussesing the challenges associated

This paper critically examines attempts to conceptualise the use of military intervention on humanitarian grounds, with a focus on the "responsibility to protect" framework, and offers discussion of the way forward in light of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and the US-led "war on terror". It traces the history of the concept from its post-Cold War origins through to the UN World Summit of September 2005. The paper concludes with a brief review of the challenges that face the international community in moving forward, and the specific