Youth, a stage of life marked by uncertainty, change and challenge, is a time of enormous potential, enthusiasm and energy, when young people make choices based on available opportunities to plan for their transition to adulthood.

Young people displaced by conflict, however, have few opportunities and, as a result, this stage of life is often characterized by idleness, violence and poverty. As the average length of displacement continues to extend, youth are increasingly vulnerable to sexual and economic exploitation and recruitment into armies and militias.

What difference are we making? How do we know? The Good Enough Guide helps busy field workers to address these questions. It offers a set of basic guidelines on how to be accountable to local people and measure programme impact in emergency situations.

Its 'good enough' approach emphasises simple and practical solutions and encourages the user to choose tools that are safe, quick, and easy to implement.

This pocket guide presents some tried and tested methods for putting impact measurement and accountability into

Humanitarian action has been accused of prolonging wars and undermining governments' accountability to their people, destroying markets and creating dependency, failing to address the causes of crisis and so acting as a substitute for 'real' action, failing to reach the neediest, being inequitable, corroding human dignity and providing poor-quality assistance in insufficient quantities to people in desperate need. There is some truth in all of these accusations, but also some disturbing deceptions based on very limited evidence and faulty reasoning. All too

In more than five years as Chief Executive of the NHS in England I met many people and NHS organisations that were working - often voluntarily - to improve health in developing countries. Their work seemed to me to be very impressive and very worthwhile.

I was therefore delighted when the Prime Minister and the Secretaries of State for Health and International Development invited me, in March 2006, to look at how we could use UK experience and expertise in health to best effect to help improve health in developing countries.

At the outset we agreed that this review would:

This booklet is intended primarily for development practitioners. It provides practical points to consider when designing and implementing projects addressing violence against women. This collection of 'good practices', drawn from UNFPA experience in the field, is neither exhaustive nor prescriptive. Violence against women manifests itself in different ways in different societies - from psychological abuse and physical harm to early marriage and ritual slavery - and the pathways to success vary. Nevertheless, a number of shared approaches described

This document is a transcript of a keynote by Antonio Donini, Feinstein International Center, at the ICVA Conference 2007. The document was made on the basis of speaking notes, and is not a prepared text.

The keynote was addressing how compatible UN coherence and humanitarian partnership are.