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Children and Conflict in a Changing World

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The 1996 Machel Study challenged the world to recognize that "war affects every right of the child." This follow-up report analyses the progress – and challenges – of the subsequent decade. More than 40 UN agencies, non-governmental organizations and academic institutions – along with children from nearly 100 countries – contributed to this review, which was co-convened by the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict and UNICEF. The Strategic more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on July 22, 2009

Moving Beyond Rhetoric: Consultation and Participation with Populations Displaced by Conflict or Natural Disasters

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The importance of engaging directly with populations affected by poverty, conflict and disaster is a common theme in the literature on humanitarian aid, development and peace building. The mandate to engage in consultation and participation with affected communities has been enshrined in, for example, UN Security Council Resolutions, UN agency manuals, international conventions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) codes of conduct and guidelines, as well as the Guiding Principles on Internal more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on July 15, 2009

Emerging Trends in Hazards, Vulnerability Patterns and the Impact of Disasters

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While no country in the world is entirely safe, the lack of capacity to limit the impact of hazards remains a major burden for developing countries, where over 90 per cent of natural disasters fatalities occur. Twenty-four of the 49 least developed countries still face high levels of disaster risk. At least six of them experienced between two and eight major disasters during each of the last 15 years, with long-term consequences for human development. These figures do not include the more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 22, 2009

“Clouds but Little Rain…”

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The first independent study assessing the progress undertaken in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action at local level identifies a significant gap between national and local level action. The report, conducted by the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction, was completed in June 2009 for presentation at the Second Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Full document in PDF Format (2.48MB); Number of pages: 70p; Source(s): Global Network of more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 16, 2009

Gender Mainstreaming in Emergency Management: Opportunities for Building Community Resilience in Canada

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This report builds on international efforts over the past decade to develop more gender-sensitive approaches to disaster risk management, for example by the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, and the humanitarian relief efforts of the Canadian International Development Agency. Our observations also reflect recent initiatives by researchers, practitioners and policy makers to promote gender mainstreaming. Full report in PDF format; Number of pages: 99p

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 04, 2009

Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development

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Some 75 percent of the world’s populations live in areas affected at least once by earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or drought between 1980 and 2000. The consequences of such widespread exposure to natural hazard for human development are only now beginning to be identified. This Report shows that billions of people in more than 100 countries are periodically exposed to at least one event of earthquake, tropical cyclone, flood or drought. As a result of disasters triggered by these natural more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 03, 2009

Characteristics of a Disaster-Resilient Community

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This guidance note is for government and civil society organizations working on disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives at community level, in partnership with vulnerable communities. It shows what a ‘disaster-resilient community’ might consist of, by setting out the many different elements of resilience. It also provides some ideas about how to progress towards resilience. Full document in PDF format (417kb); Number of pages: 40p

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on June 03, 2009

Iraqi women talk about their greatest concerns and challenges

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The plight of women in Iraq today has gone largely ignored, both within Iraqi society and by the international community. For more than five years, headlines have been dominated by political and social turmoil, the chaos of conflict and widespread violence. This has overshadowed the abysmal state of the civilian population’s day-to-day lives, a result of that very turmoil and violence. Behind the headlines, essential services have collapsed, families have been torn apart and women in more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 13, 2009

A Billion Hungry People

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High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people. Lasting solutions to the problem include adequate investment in agriculture, fairer trade, the redistribution of resources, and action on climate change. But hungry people cannot be fed on the hope of long-term solutions. Governments, supported by aid agencies and donors, must act now to provide systematic emergency assistance and longer-term support to those in need, and to more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 13, 2009

Exit strategy: closure planning guidance document

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'Closing emergency relief and recover missions should be considered as a project in itself and is best planned when there is a certainty and clear schedules for closing a programme. This document, originally conceived for the British Red Cross Recovery Programme in the Maldives, can also be used as a practical guidance tool for others about to embark on a similar process. It should be considered as an office closure guide for all support services (finance, administration, human resources (HR), more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on May 06, 2009

Natural disasters, self-insurance and human capital investment: evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Malawi

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'This paper examines the impacts of disasters on dynamic human capital production using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The empirical results show that the accumulation of biological human capital prior to disasters helps children maintain investments in the post-disaster period. Biological human capital formed in early childhood (long-term nutritional status) plays a role of insurance with resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investment and outcomes, although more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 30, 2009

The importance of mangrove forest in tsunami disaster mitigation

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Tsunamis and storm surges have killed more than one million people and some three billion people currently live with a high risk of these disasters, which are becoming more frequent and devastating worldwide. Effective mitigation of such disasters is possible via healthy coastal forests, which can reduce the energy of tsunamis. In recent years, these natural barriers have declined due to adverse human and natural activities. In the past 20 years, the world has lost almost 50 per cent of its more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on April 09, 2009

Report: Katrina and the Women of New Orleans

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Katrina and the Women of New Orleans is a collaborative effort of the Gender and Disasters Research Group sponsored by the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women. The goal in writing this report was to analyze the ways the hurricanes of 2005 affected the lives of women and girls and to bring those findings to the attention of policy makers, community leaders, scholars, grant makers, and disaster managers. The ten chapters of the report focus on the pre-storm vulnerability and more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 17, 2009

Guidelines for the evaluation of post disaster programmes

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'This guide is part of a series that draws upon UNCHS (Habitat)ís experience in the field of post disaster management and local governance. The authors seek to assist practitioners, local governments and community organisations to meet the challenges of post disaster reconstruction with the best possible understanding of the different issues in post-disaster planning, and of the methods for developing evaluation tools. This guide will help local practitioners incorporate evaluation strategies more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on March 04, 2009

Learning about accountability from CARE Peru’s earthquake response

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'On the 15th August 2007 a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Peru, killing more than 500 people and leaving more than 75,000 families homeless. Before the earthquake, CARE Peru had already identified CARE’s third programming principle “we seek ways to be held accountable to poor and marginalised people” as an organisational priority. The emergency response was an important moment for making accountability to disaster affected people a reality. As a means for ensuring a focus more...

Added by Zunia to Disaster Prevention & Response on February 23, 2009

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