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Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, is the second largest country in Africa and rich in gold, diamonds and minerals in the East of the country.
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Keywords: HA2015 Country Study, Humanitarian Agenda 2015
Strategies for Economic Recovery and Peace In Darfur
Competing livelihoods in the absence of good local governance has led to localized and ultimately devastating conflict over natural resources in Darfur. The lack of comprehensive livelihoods analysis in international peace processes and humanitarian assistance risks entrenching the Darfur conflict even further.
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Keywords: conflict, Darfur, finance, humanitarian action
Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Iraq Country Study
Iraq places the frailties and fault-lines of the humanitarian enterprise in stark relief.
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Keywords: HA2015 Country Study, Humanitarian Agenda 2015
Out-migration, Return, and Resettlement in Karamoja, Uganda
As part of a larger project entitled “Livelihoods and Human Security in Karamoja,” this briefing paper presents findings on causal factors and broad patterns in out-migration among the Bokora population. The paper also seeks to provide context for the specific case study of the population picked up on the streets of Kampala and sent to a reception site at Kobulin in Bokora County of Moroto District. Using a gender and generational analysis, the briefing paper presents data on the main factors underlying out-migration, the mechanics of this process, people’s experiences in the cities, the return to Kobulin, and the population’s current situation and hopes for the future.
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Keywords: Karamoja, migration
Follow the Money
Is there enough money, is it going to the right people in the right places in the most efficient way?
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Keywords: evidence-based practice, finance, humanitarian action
Impact Assessments of Livelihoods-based Drought Interventions in Moyale and Dire Woredas
The Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative (PLI) is a two-year program funded by USAID Ethiopia which combines field level implementation and learning in pastoral areas, with the development of national guidelines for livelihoods-based livestock relief interventions with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Keywords: food security, impact assessment, pastoralism
Coming to Terms with the Humanitarian Imperative in Iraq
Following a series of observations about how humanitarianism is currently perceived in Iraq, this report highlights findings regarding the operational environment, donor environment, and strategic policy environment.
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Keywords: global war on terror, HA2015 Update, Humanitarian Agenda 2015, justice, war
Challenges to Peace and Recovery in Darfur
The paper presents a livelihoods conceptual framework that allows an integrated and coherent analysis of livelihoods in Darfur. The Darfur Peace Accord is full of references to livelihoods and the importance of addressing those conditions that hamper sustainable livelihoods for different groups in order to achieve peace and recovery. The paper explains the advantages of a livelihoods analysis in this context, including its capacity to bring together and make manageable complex yet related strands relating to the wider political economy of conflict, its regional dimensions, relevant customary law and institutions, markets and trade etc.
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Keywords: conflict, Darfur, human rights, livelihoods
Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Occupied Palestinian Territory case study
This study of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) is part of Phase II of HA2015 which includes a larger set of case studies.
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Keywords: global war on terror, HA2015 Country Study, Humanitarian Agenda 2015, law, war
Review of WFP Food Assistance Programming Practices in Southern Sudan
The World Food Programme has been providing humanitarian food assistance to vulnerable communities and groups in Southern Sudan for over twenty years, but circumstances have changed following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. The Feinstein International Center undertook this review of programs in Southern Sudan to help WFP Sudan make the needed changes to adapt to these new circumstances. The objective of this study is to improve programming in the 2007 EMOP and the subsequent PRRO. The Feinstein International Center views this as one step to building a long-term partnership with WFP Sudan.
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Keywords: food security, WFP