Since mid-2005, Ockenden International has been carrying out community assistance projects in Missan governorate in south Iraq. We work with small communities, in neighbourhoods or villages...
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Reporting on education project cuts to Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan
Ockenden International works in Afghan refugee camps in northern Pakistan, working on education projects with the communities there. We provide teacher training, and help set up and maintain primary...
Maoists join interim Nepal government
A major change in the Nepalese political landscape was announced in Kathmandu on Friday 16 June. Marking a potential end to the 10-year-old Maoist insurgency, which has left some 13,000 dead, an...
Eastern Sudan peace talks succeed
On 19 June 2006, peace talks aimed at settling the complex conflict in eastern Sudan were said to have come to a conclusion. With international focus on Darfur, this has been achieved largely away...
Pakistan: Life after the earthquake - Two stories of young women
Pakistan sustained the heaviest death toll and destruction in its 58-year history after a powerful earthquake registering 7.6 on the Richter scale ripped through the north of the country and...
Sudan's internally displaced
For many years Ockenden has been working with internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Sudan and in and around the capital Khartoum. We have often sought to convince donors that many of Sudan's...
Iraq crisis deepens
According to a recent report from the NGO Coordinating Committee in Iraq the humanitarian situation in Iraq remains desperate and may well continue to decline in the coming months. It argues that,...
Nepalese government to issue a new IDP policy
The continued conflict between Maoist rebels and the government in Nepal has had devastating effects on the lives of many of Nepal's people. The war has led to people being displaced for a number of...
Afghanistan: Country update - Feb 2006
Afghanistan has been and will remain a challenging environment for Ockenden International to serve its beneficiaries. The confluence of myriad forces including the ongoing insurgency by...
Pakistan: Ockenden's earthquake response
The earthquake that struck northwest Pakistan and Kashmir on 8 October 2005 had a devastating effect on most people living in the region. 87,000 people died and an estimated 3 million were displaced...
Sudan + 3 more
Sudan: An uncertain return
Report on the current and potential impact of displaced people returning to southern Sudan Jake Phelan and Graham Wood Executive Summary The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between...
Nepal developments
Ockenden International has worked in Nepal for the past three years helping Tibetan refugees. Ockenden's programmes have proved very successful and in 2005 we were able to broaden our work and assist...
Afghanistan's parliament sworn in
For the first time in 3 decades, Afghanistan has a popularly elected parliament. The last year that an elected national assembly functioned was 1973, before coups and a Soviet invasion brought 30...
Pakistan earthquake
On 8 October 200,5 an earthquake devastated parts of northern Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. In Pakistan it is estimated that more than 87,000 people have died, with many more injured and...
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Rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army attack major town in western Equatoria, Sudan
Over the course of the previous two nights security fears have grown in the town of Maridi, southern Sudan, as the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army(LRA) launched consecutive attacks on the...
Trip report - Pakistan Earthquake zone, NWFP, 7 - 8 Dec 2005
Balekot -- 7 December The road through the mountains was only briefly blocked and is now open. The destruction increases the closer you get, as Balekot was the epicentre of the earthquake. Completely...
Woking charity eases the pain in Sudan
Woking charity Ockenden International has been to Sudan to explore ways it can help refugees of the country's bitter civil war. Jake Phelan, a research consultant for Ockenden based in Constitution...
World + 3 more
Bleeding Boundaries: Civil-Military Relations and the Cartography of Neutrality
This paper seeks to reflect on the often difficult interplay between humanitarian organisations and the military. It looks primarily at three countries where Ockenden International works: Sudan...
Afghanistan: Country update - Oct 2005
Ockenden International currently maintains offices in six provinces of Afghanistan, employing approximately 200 Afghan and 3 expatriate staff to carry out a variety of programmes intended to address...
South Sudan expects mass returnees
Following the recent formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU), it is expected that many more internally displaced People (IDPs) and refugees will return to South Sudan. However, two...