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ReliefWeb Annual Statistics - 2007

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ReliefWeb

ReliefWeb remains a key resource for its humanitarian audience. In 2007, we had almost 37 million page views and over 8 million unique visits to the website.

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Sri Lanka: Mannar District - Access Information as at 1 January 2008

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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Sri Lanka: Vavuniya District - Access Information Updated as at 1 January 2008

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Sri Lanka: District - Batticaloa: Access information updated as at 01 January 2008

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Sri Lanka: District: Trincomalee - Access information updated as of 01 January 2007

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Sri Lanka: District: Ampara - Access information updated as at 01 January, 2008

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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Afghanistan + 11 others
World: Wild Poliovirus, 02 Jan 2007 - 01 Jan 2008

Note: Excludes viruses detected from environmental surveillance and vaccine derived polio viruses.
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Sri Lanka: Humanitarian Access (as of 01 January, 2008)

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Full Access: All agencies have full access
Partial Access: Agencies do not have systematic access to concerned areas. They either have to follow pre-set procedures or are denied access for some time or some locations at some point in time.
No Access: Agencies do not have access to these areas but the UN and ICRC could have been granted permission in some areas at some point in time.
Controlled Access: In areas of "Controlled Access" UN agencies, ICRC and INGO have regular access after following pre-set procedures.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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Among people

This report is an extensive annotated listing of printed and audiovisual material on community risk reduction. Community organization and the production of emergency plans are some of the topics covered. Also listed are useful tools for communities to design and use their own local risk maps.
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Global Risks 2008

This report examines global risks for 2008 from a range of perspectives. It focuses on four emerging issues that shape the global risk landscape, namely systemic financial risk, food security, supply chains and the role of energy.

The paper then presents a collective assessment of global risks in 2008, looks at the methodological hurdles around the representation of interconnectedness and demonstrates how risk "squeezing" and homogenization of risk have changed the way risk is perceived globally. It also examines the role of financial markets as
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ICT for Reconstruction and Development - Afghanistan Challenges and Opportunities

Afghanistan ICT has truly been a success story emerging from a country left dysfunctional after 23 years of war. ICT lessons derived from this success are highlighted, as are some thoughts on making more effective use of the ICT infrastructure in the future. Findings and observations of successes and challenges are based on visits by one of the authors to Afghanistan in April and May 2006 to research the rebuilding of Afghanistan telecommunications and IT and their use as enablers of cross-sector reconstruction and development.
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Review of Incorporation of Essential Nutrition Actions into Public Health Programs in Ethiopia

The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) package is an approach to expand the coverage of seven affordable and evidence-based actions to improve the nutritional status of women and children, especially those under two years of age. The Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project's Review of Incorporation of Essential Nutrition Actions into Public Health Programs in Ethiopia found that the approach has been incorporated into the Ethiopia Federal Ministry of Health system and multilateral and NGO programming, however, improved training and other steps are necessary
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UNHCR Handbook for the Protection of Women and Girls

This Handbook describes some of the protection challenges faced by women and girls of concern to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and outlines various strategies we should adopt with our partners to tackle these challenges.

It sets out the legal standards and principles that guide our work to protect women and girls and outlines the different roles and responsibilities of States and other actors. UNHCR's own responsibilities in this respect are explained, both as part of its mandate to secure international protection and durable solutions and as
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Delivering Better Aid: An Opportunity for European Union Leadership in the Fight Against Global Poverty

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Concord
In its policy paper on EU Aid Effectiveness, CONCORD underlines the need for the EU to be ambitious in the High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra. While the Paris Declaration is a useful tool for driving greater aid efficiency, it is limited in scope, avoiding critical issues like aid allocation and transparency and setting unambitious targets in others such as ownership, mutual accountability, and aid untying. The policy paper focuses on a number of practical steps the European Union can take to build on its existing aid effectiveness commitments and, in