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Guia para el acompañamiento psicosocial a nñas, niños y adolescentes antes, durante y despues de desastres

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Plan

Presentación El Ministerio de Educación en cumplimiento a su política plasmada en el Plan Social Educativo “Vamos a La Escuela” y el Ministerio de Salud en cumplimiento a la Política Nacional de Salud Mental, han acordado unir esfuerzos para fortalecer capacidades institucionales para la respuesta emocional ante situaciones de desastre.

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Guidance note: Assessing post-disaster food security

I. Introduction

The following guidance note describes the requirements and steps in undertaking post-disaster food security assessment. The guidance note on damage, loss and needs assessment intended for recovery and reconstruction is prepared separately.

II. Purpose of This Guidance Note

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Urban Violence and Humanitarian Challenges

This second colloquium organised jointly by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) aimed to present the causes and humanitarian consequences of urban violence, as well as related trends and challenges for the European Union and humanitarian actors. Two case studies have been selected, focusing on different types of violence affecting urban environments.

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Guidance note: Post disaster damage, loss and needs assessment in agriculture

Introduction

This guidance note has been prepared as a guide to assist Pacific Island Countries following disasters affecting the agriculture sector. It describes the requirements and steps required in undertaking post-disaster damage, loss and needs assessment in all of the sub-sectors of agriculture.

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Disaster risk reduction in Asia: identifying and maximising opportunities for action

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Wilton Park

Conference report, Monday 12 - Wednesday 14 December 2011 (WP1125)

Key points discussed

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Topic Guide on Conflict

Conflict is inherent in all societies and arises when two or more groups believe their interests are incompatible. ‘Conflict’ is not, however, interchangeable with ‘violence’. Non-violent resolution is possible when individuals and groups have trust in their governing structures, society and institutions to manage incompatible interests. Conflict becomes a problem when this trust and respective conflict management capacities are absent and conflicting parties choose instead to resort to the use of force to secure their goals.

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Nairobi Burning - Kenya's post-election violence from the perspective of the urban poor

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The next elections in Kenya will probably be held in December of 2012, and they are already casting an ominous shadow. Will these elections again be accompanied by an escalation of violence as in 2007?

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Food Observatory: Issue No.5, January 2012

Food problem tops the list of issues facing most countriesspecially developing ones. Successive food crises motivated concerned parties to examine causes of such crises & establish systems which help forecast any future crises to evade or mitigate their occurrence.

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International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the Global Legal Order

Within Norwegian defence and foreign policy, the establishment of an international legal order and the global rule of law have been identified as key objectives. As articulated in various Norwegian policy documents and statements, these objectives appear to presume (i) that there exists a harmonious and complementary relationship between human rights and humanitarian law, and (ii) that the convergence of the two bodies of law is necessarily a good thing.

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Peace and Conflict 2012 (Executive Summary)

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to internal civil strife to full-fledged inter-country war. A major trend it tracks is the incidence of wars beyond the protracted conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For 2012, Peace & Conflict focuses on the theme of policy guidance for preventing conflict. It covers special topics with original contributions that focus on mediation, economic recovery, and the impact of elections.

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Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Abstract: We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-05. We exploit two waves of survey data from Afrobarometer 2000 and 2008, including information on socioeconomic characteristics at the individual level, and geo-referenced measures of fighting events from ACLED.

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Appui à la réhabilitation et la reconstruction du logement dans le contexte post-séisme en Haïti : progrès et problématiques

Le rapport ci-après s’appuie sur les chiffres fournis par les agences chargées de l’exécution des projets d’hébergement d’urgence et de logement en réponse à une requête formulée conjointement à la mi-décembre 2011 par le Groupe Sectoriel Abris d’urgence, Coordination et Gestion des camps/Logement Quartiers (OIM) et le Groupe de travail Logement Quartiers (groupe facilité par ONU-Habitat dans le cadre du Groupe sectoriel Relèvement Immédiat).

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Support for housing rehabilitation and reconstruction: progress and issues

The following report is based on the figures provided by shelter and housing implementing agencies to a combined request for data by the Emergency Shelter, Camp Coordination Camp Management cluster / Logement Quartiers mid December 2011, by IOM and UN-HABITAT.

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La réponse sanitaire au tremblement de terre en Haïti - Janvier 2010

Leçons à retenir pour la prochaine grande catastrophe soudaine

Haïti a été frappé par un grand nombre de catastrophes naturelles soudaines au cours des dix dernières années, la dernière en date et la plus dévastatrice étant le séisme du 12 janvier 2010. C’est aussi l’une des nombreuses urgences soudaines qui ont mobilisé la communauté internationale à l’échelle mondiale.

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A simple solution makes a big impact for Ethiopia's farming families

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Mercy Corps

Erin Gray
Senior Media Communications Officer, European HQ

When drought hits and families are struggling to survive, the solutions don’t always have to be complicated or expensive. As I learnt from our team in Ethiopia last year, something as simple as a sack can mean the difference between hunger and happiness for a farming family.