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World Refugee Statistics

Philippe Rekacewicz, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, April 2001

Le Monde Diplomatique (French)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/

Graph is part of a series of maps including
- Those Who Have Returned
- Forced to Emigrate
- Exiled within Their Own Country
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Exiled within Their Own Country - World Displaced Population

Philippe Rekacewicz, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, April 2001

Le Monde Diplomatique (French)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/

Map is part of a series also including
- Those Who Have Returned
- Forced to Emigrate
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Angola - Population Displacement - January-April 2001

This report is based upon information received by humanitarian organisations. It does not reflect all population movements in the country. Populations displaced by flooding during April are not included.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

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

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Carte Administrative et Autres Données sur la Ghinée

Ce site vous propose une série d'informations de base sur les pays d'Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre. De nouvelles données seront ajoutées au fur et à mesure sur d'autres thèmes ou d'autres pays. Ce serveur a été mis en place en 1996 avec un appui financier de la France dans le cadre d'un fonds fiduciaire.

Pour chaque pays, vous pouvez consulter différents documents concernant l'agriculture et l'alimentation (textes,
cartes, données statistiques, ...). Les sujets traités dans chacun de ces documents sont détaillés ci-après, ainsi que les sources ayant servi à leur réalisation.
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Those Who Have Returned - World Repatriated Populations

Philippe Rekacewicz, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, April 2001

Le Monde Diplomatique (French)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/

Map is part of a series also including
- Exiled within Their Own Country
- Forced to Emigrate
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Forced to Emigrate-World Refugee Populations

Philippe Rekacewicz, Le Monde diplomatique, Paris, April 2001

Le Monde Diplomatique (French)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cartes/

Map is part of a series also including
- Those Who Have Returned
- Exiled within Their Own Country

ASYLUM GIVERS: UNITED STATES AND GERMANY:  In 1999 Germany estimated that it had more than 1m refugees and asylum seekers (USCR estimate: 285,000). In north America there are 1.2m, of which 1.1m are in the US. Asylum seekers in western European countries
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Learning from Kosovo: The Humanitarian Community Information Centre (HCIC), Year One

This article reviews the Humanitarian Community Information Centre (HCIC) set up to provide information services to support the humanitarian effort following the mass return of Albanian refugees to Kosovo in June 1999.

Cited by the Brahimi report on UN peace operations as an example of the practical application of information technology in supporting humanitarian coordination, the article argues that the most important lesson learned by the HCIC is that effective coordination of humanitarian work is greatly aided by effective information management,
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Politics and Humanitarian Aid: Debates, Dilemmas and Dissension

This report examines the context, factors and motivations of the current form of politicisation of humanitarian action. In particular, it concentrates on how humanitarian action appears to be increasingly tied to new political objectives, and to the overall political response of donor countries to complex emergencies. It contains the following main chapters:

- Context of the current form of politicisation of humanitarian action
- The coherence agenda
- 'Humanitarian intervention' and civil-military cooperation
- Humanitarian principles
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Conflict Analysis and Response Definition

This abridged methodology aims to provide the analytical and action framework needed to plan preliminary responses to early warning. Through an assessment of conflict and peace indicators, as well as stakeholders, preliminary trends and scenarios can be drawn, and entry points for action identified.

- Conflict Indicators
- Peace Indicators
- Stakeholders
- Summary Analysis
- Entry points and contingency planning

The methodology emerged from an expert consultation on conflict analysis convened by FEWER in early 2001, and has been further
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Follow-up to Evaluations of Humanitarian Programmes

Report
ALNAP
Aiming to achieve accountability and learning, this study examines the utilisation of evaluation findings in the management of humanitarian programmes.

It argues for the necessity of effectively using findings of evaluation studies for operations management, policy formulation and the internal organisation of humanitarian organisations for evaluation to have a sustainable role. For this purpose, it provides information on the following issues:

- Assessing current practice of follow-up
- Analysing factors that contribute to good practice versus unsatisfactory practice
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Bibliography on IDPs: Conflict Induced Displacement

Provides a bibliography on internally displaced persons with specific focus on conflict induced displacement.
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Desk Review on UNICEF Humanitarian Response Capacity

This document reviews UNICEF's humanitarian response capacity, in order to identify broad conclusions and lessons on programmatic and operational improvements, strengths and remaining gaps in UNICEF humanitarian response. For this purpose, it examines the following issues:

- Humanitarian principles and human rights
- Interagency coordination
- Information management for planning, monitoring and evaluation
- Funding
- Management of inputs
- Human resources
- Allocation of roles and responsibilities

The review is based on 30 evaluations carried
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Rethinking ODA: Towards a Renewal of Official Development Assistance

This paper considers current trends and debates on the quantity and quality of Official Development Assistance (ODA) as well as provides a number of policy recommendations. Specifically, it examines issues relating to:

- Stagnation in ODA
- The Millennium targets
- The measure of assistance
- Aid effectiveness

The paper was prepared in conjunction with a roundtable on "The Future of ODA" held on December 4, 2000, in Berlin by Global Policy Forum, WEED and the Heinrich-Boell Foundation,
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Information Systems in Humanitarian Emergencies

This article examines information systems that cater to the international humanitarian-assistance community.

For this purpose, it considers field efforts, existing information systems in aid and the need for change, in particular examining the reasons for the failure of field-based systems and suggesting possible ways of enhancing their effectiveness.

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Humanitarian Action and Private Security Companies

This report represents a preliminary attempt to assess the use of private security companies by aid agencies and to raise a number of the key issues.  For this purpose, it examines European and American humanitarian agencies and their use of private security companies.

The paper derives from desk research of relevant literature and complementary surveys undertaken in Europe and the US on the policies and experiences of humanitarian agencies' use of private security companies during humanitarian operations.
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Guidelines for Water Treatment in Emergencies

Report
Oxfam
These guidelines seek to assist in the provision of reliable water supply where mass displacement of people has occurred, e.g. in refugee camps and relief centers, as well as for work with smaller communities who may not have been displaced from their homes. It contains the following chapters:  

- Assessing water quality
- Treatment technologies
- Application of treatment processes
- Installation strategy for bulk water
- Operation/management

The techniques and equipment described reflect the most current practice of Oxfam GB.
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Assistance to Post-Conflict Countries and the HIPC Framework

Report
World Bank
This paper describes the policies that guide assistance by World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to low income countries affected by armed conflict, and considers how further to enhance them in specific areas. For this purpose, it contains the following chapters:

- Current policies for assisting countries emerging from conflict
- Providing technical and capacity-building assistance
- Capacity-building efforts  
- Applying the HIPC framework to post-conflict countries
- Issues in HIPC arrears cases
- Implementing assistance to post-conflict
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Handbook for Participatory Evaluation

Report
CARE
This document offers guidelines on conducting an Internal Project Evaluation. After explaining the difference and complementarity of Self-Evaluations and Community-Evaluations, it discusses the following issues:

- Evaluation model and concept of internal evaluation
- Evaluation works
- Responsibility of project staff and community team members
- Quality of requirements
- Data collection methods
- Use of evaluation
- Dissemination of lessons learned

The document offers a comparative approach