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Understanding Breast “Ironing”
UNDERSTANDING BREAST “IRONING”: A STUDY OF THE METHODS, MOTIVATIONS, AND OUTCOMES OF BREAST FLATTENING PRACTICES IN CAMEROON Breast “ironing” or “flattening” is a practice that impacts 1:4 Cameroonian girls and women, in which a heated object such as a grinding … Read More
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Keywords: gender, women
Rapid Review of the Cash-for-Work and Natural Resource Management Components of the RAIN Project
The project Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) is a three‐year project implemented by Mercy Corps and Save the Children UK (SCUK) in parts of Somali and Oromiya Regions in Ethiopia. The project aims to protect, build and diversify assets in food insecure households. The donor is the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the project budget is US$17 million.
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Keywords: food security, livelihoods, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
Review of Pastoral Rangeland Enclosures in Ethiopia
Access to productive rangeland has long been a critical issue affecting pastoralists in Ethiopia. In
November 2011, the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University facilitated a review of a
specific set of changes to rangeland management in Ethiopia, being the establishment of rangeland
enclosures.
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Keywords: livelihoods, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
Impact Assessment of Small-Scale Pump Irrigation in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
The L‐SAP project of CHF International was funded by OFDA for one year, in three
woredas in Gode zone, and ended in December 2008. The project aimed to improve
the household income and assets of targeted poor households through establishing
group‐based small scale irrigation schemes along the Wabe Shabelle River for the
production of food and cash crops.
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Keywords: livelihoods, small-scale irrigation
From Subjects to Citizens?
Nepal is on the cusp of a major “transformation” from a relatively stable condition of reproduction of social and economic relations based on feudal and caste strictures to a more fluid and open condition where the old “order” is changing if not collapsing and a new order – or disorder – is emerging. This report presents the findings of a two-month long field research on the nature of changes on labor relations and mobility in western Nepal.
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Keywords: livelihoods, Social Transformation in Nepal
Market Monitoring in Darfur
The Feinstein International Center provides advisory support to the Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency (DRA) – a national NGO in Sudan – to set up and manage a community-based market monitoring network in the Darfur Region. The goal of this market monitoring initiative is to deepen analysis and understanding of the shifting patterns of trade and markets in Darfur on an ongoing basis for key agricultural and livestock commodities; identify how livelihoods and the economy can be supported through trade; and identify peace-building opportunities through trade.
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Keywords: Darfur, market monitoring, markets, Sudan Environment and Livelihoods, trade
Humanitarian Action in Pakistan 2005-2010
Over the past five years, Pakistan has witnessed three major crises affecting up to 18 million people.
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Keywords: humanitarian action, politics
Adaptation and Resilience
This briefing paper is the first output from the LIVE project (Livelihoods, Insecurity and Value Chains Examination in Karamoja), a collaborative study with Save the Children in Uganda funded by USAID Food for Peace.
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Keywords: Karamoja, livelihoods
State-building, Counterterrorism, and Licensing Humanitarianism in Somalia
This new briefing paper explores the policy and operational implications of the current crises and the challenges to humanitarian action in Somalia. It examines how international state-building and counterterrorism objectives in Somalia have compromised the ability of international humanitarian actors to assist and protect vulnerable populations.
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Keywords: humanitarian action, politics, terrorism
Comments on Pastoralist Policy
The comments here are based on data collected by Feinstein teams in field work conducted in Karamoja since 2005, as reflected in the various studies on Karamoja available elsewhere on the Feinstein website. Read this document Download this document (PDF) … Read More
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Keywords: Karamoja, pastoralism, policy, politics