Introduction Despite a relative reduction in the level of violence in Iraq, as of December 2008 Iraqis continue to face serious and persistent threats to their safety and welfare due to a mix of...
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The Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change
Using existing international databases that track disaster occurrence and humanitarian costs, this research attempts to improve understanding of how climate change may affect international...
Participatory Impact Assessment - A Guide for Practitioners
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this...
Déplacement interne en milieu urbain : Étude de profilage Tufts-IDMC - Étude de cas 2 : Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Karen Jacobsen, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University en collaboration avec l'Observatoire des Situations de Déplacement Interne (IDMC), Genève Dans de nombreuses zones de conflit...
Internal displacement to urban areas: The Tufts-IDMC profiling study - Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Case 2
Karen Jacobsen, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University in collaboration with Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Geneva In many conflict zones today, the targeting and uprooting of...
Desplazamiento interno hacia áreas urbanas: Estudio de caracterización realizado por Tufts-IDMC - Caso 3: Santa Marta, Colombia
Karen Jacobsen y Kimberly Howe, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, en colaboración con el Observatorio de Desplazamiento Interno, Ginebra El ataque indiscriminado y el desarraigo de la...
Internal displacement to urban areas: The Tufts-IDMC profiling study - Santa Marta, Colombia: Case 3
Karen Jacobsen and Kimberly Howe, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, in collaboration with Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Geneva In many conflict zones today, the targeting...
Colombia + 2 more
Internal displacement to urban areas: The Tufts-IDMC profiling study
IDMC identified the need to develop and test a methodology to assess the number and situation of IDPs in urban centres, to complement the Guidance on Profiling Internally Displaced Persons. The...
Humanitarian agenda 2015: Nepal country study
Executive Summary The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum, there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. -Antonio Gramsci,...
Internal displacement to urban areas: The Tufts-IDMC profiling study - Khartoum, Sudan: Case 1
Karen Jacobsen, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University in collaboration with Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Geneva In many confl ict zones today, the targeting and uprooting of...
Targeting in complex emergencies: Colombia country case study
Executive Summary This research is one of four cases in a study commissioned by the World Food Programme to investigate the participation of recipient community in the targeting and management of...
Targeting in complex emergencies: Somalia country case study
Executive Summary Somalia has been in a state of conflict since the late 1980s and has not had a central government able to govern the country since the fall of the former President, Siad Barre, in...
Complexity and context as the determinants of the future
By Peter Walker Peter Walker is Director of the Feinstein International Center. Active in development and disaster response since 1979, he has worked for British-based NGOs and environmental...
Complexity and Context as the Determinants of the Future
Humanitarian crises today are not due to one underlying cause but rather to a set of complex issues or an accumulation of adverse trends. As a result, humanitarian action needs to be more broadly...
Sudan: Adaptation and devastation - the impact of the conflict on trade and markets in Darfur
Margie Buchanan-Smith and Dr Abduljabbar Abdulla Fadul EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Trade is the lifeblood of the economy of the three states which comprise the Darfur region and one of the main ways in which...
Targeting in complex emergencies: South Sudan country case study
Executive Summary The population of Southern Sudan was caught in a civil war from 1983 to 2005. During the war, several major famines led to a massive food aid intervention by the World Food...
Forced marriage within the LRA, Uganda
I. Executive Summary The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-a rebel group fighting the government of Uganda-is estimated to have abducted over 60,000 Ugandan children and youth. Within the war-affected...
Impact assessment of the pastoralist survival and recovery project Dakoro, Niger
Summary This report documents the findings of an impact assessment of the 'Pastoralist Survival and Recovery Project' implemented by Lutheran World Relief and partners in North Dakoro, Niger. The...
The state of female youth in Northern Uganda: Findings from the Survey of War Affected Youth (SWAY)
Executive Summary The Survey for War Affected Youth (SWAY) is a research program dedicated to evidence-based humanitarian aid and development. SWAY employs new data, tools, and analysis to improve...
Myanmar + 1 more
Invisible in Thailand: Documenting the need for international protection for Burmese
by Margaret Green, Karen Jacobsen and Sandee Pyne (this is a more detailed version of the Forced Migration Review article that appeared in April 2008) The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is...