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Chad: Food Security - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Agriculture and Seeds - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Water and Sanitation - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Non Food Items - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Protection and Security - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Health/Nutrition - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Chad: Education - Who Does What Where (as of Jan 2007)

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Untapped Potential: Displaced Youth

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.
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Survey of Cluster Munition Policy and Practice

Cluster munitions stand out as the weapon category most in need of stronger national and international law in order to protect civilians during armed conflict. They pose an immediate danger to civilians during attacks due to their inaccuracy and wide dispersal pattern. After conflict they pose another lasting hazard due to the high number of landmine-like submunition duds that litter the landscape. There is a potential future danger of widespread proliferation.

This document contains an overview of states practice regarding cluster
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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide

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Oxfam
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
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Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention: Background, Context, and Issues

The current global agreement governing food aid-the Food Aid Convention (FAC)-will expire in 2007. It has come under heavy criticism as has the diffuse set of broader food aid governance institutions that has emerged in the last 50 years. These institutions are characterized by overlapping mandates, differing degrees of authority and legitimacy, varied levels of transparency in decisionmaking, and problematic representation of the major stakeholders. A number of issues are likely to arise during the course of negotiations over a new FAC. These include
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Concerning Accountability of Humanitarian Action

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
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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies: Operational Guidance for Emergency Relief Staff and Programme Managers Version 2.1 Feb 2007

Aim
The aim of this document is to provide concise, practical (but non technical) guidance on how to ensure appropriate infant and young child feeding in emergencies. A number of elements are also applicable in nonemergency settings.

Target groups
The Operational Guidance focuses especially on infants and young children under 2 years of age and their caregivers, recognising their particular vulnerability in emergencies. It is intended for emergency relief staff and programme managers of all agencies working
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Global Health Partnerships: The UK Contribution to Health in Developing Countries

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:
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Entreprise Locale, Paix Locale : Le potentiel du Secteur Privé National pour la Construction de la Paix - Résumé

Dans chacune des régions touchée par la guerre ou l'instabilité, le secteur privé national est considérablement affecté. Il y subit une diminution de l'investissement; une destruction des infrastructures; des attaques directes; un gachi d'opportunité, des pertes d'employés, de capital et d'accès aux marchés; ainsi que des coûts liés à l'imprévisibilité due au fait d'opérer dans un environnement de conflit. Contrairement aux investisseurs étrangers, les entrepreneurs locaux ne sont souvent pas en mesure de répondre simplement en relocalisant leur investissement.
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Ending Violence Against Women - Programming for Prevention, Protection and Care

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
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International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

This international treaty outlaws enforced disappearances and upholds the right of victims to know the truth about the circumstances and fate of those disappeared.

It calls on all States Parties to ensure that enforced disappearances constitute an offence under domestic law and significantly, states that the widespread or systematic practice of enforced disappearances constitutes a crime against humanity.

The Convention affirms the right of victims - including families of those abducted - to know the truth about
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How Compatible are UN Coherence and Humanitarian Partnership?

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Tufts University
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.
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Cash-Based Responses in Emergencies

People affected by disasters may need external assistance in order to survive and recover. To the extent that this involves transfers to individuals, this assistance can either be provided in-kind, in the form of food aid, shelter materials, seeds or blankets, or it can be provided in cash, enabling people to decide for themselves what they most need, and to buy it in local markets.

This three-year HPG research project has looked into when the option of giving people money instead of, or as well as, in-kind assistance is feasible and appropriate. The final report
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Ensuring a Food Secure Future: Ingredients for Change

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PANOS
Hunger makes the international news during times of famine, yet chronic food shortages are a feature of everyday life for millions of people in Africa and Asia. What can be done to change this and what role can journalists play?

Researchers are often aware of pending disasters long before they occur, and can recommend how to prevent hunger. Academic research can provide the back-story to events and help journalists broaden the debate. Some research findings influence government policy, while others are ignored - either out of expediency or because they go