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Remittances to Transit Countries
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) teamed up with the Feinstein International Center, (FIC) Tufts University to conduct a three year research project on Sudanese refugees and migrants in Cairo and their transnational linkages with other Sudanese both in the Diaspora and in Sudan. Egypt being a country of first asylum for the Sudanese, Cairo was selected to undertake a case study on their transnational linkages.
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Keywords: migration, refugees, remittances
On the Hoof: Livestock Trade in Darfur
This report explores what has happened to the livestock trade in the greater Darfur region during nine years of conflict, since 2003. Livestock is one of Darfur’s main economic assets and makes a major contribution to Sudan’s national livestock and … Read More
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Keywords: Darfur, livestock
Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia
The USAID funded PSNP Plus project ‘Linking Poor Rural Households to Microfinance and Markets in Ethiopia’ ended in December 2011. The PSNP Plus was designed as a three-year project in support of the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), which provides food and or cash to chronically food insecure households in exchange for labor on rural infrastructure projects, or direct transfers to households unable to participate in physical labor activities. The overall goal of the PSNP Plus was to build household resilience and household assets through market linkages and access to microfinance this goal being directly linked to the objective of facilitating the graduation of households from the PSNP and out of chronic food insecurity.
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Keywords: Assets, food security, Graduation, livelihoods, microfinance, Poverty, PSNP, Resilience, Safety Nets, Value Chains
Climate Change as a Driver of Humanitarian Crises and Response
This paper explores the relationships between climate change, humanitarian crises and humanitarian response through a review of published and grey literature. We examine the historical evidence for associations between climate change and humanitarian crises, and move on to a brief review of present humanitarian crises directly attributable to disasters triggered by climatological events. Finally, we look at three interrelated aspects of future trends: changing weather patterns, increasing societal vulnerabilities, and shifting demographics.
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Keywords: climate change, evidence-based practice, natural disasters
Pastoralism and Pastoralist Livelihoods
The Feinstein International Center is working with several national and international organizations, with the aim of promoting understanding of pastoralists livelihoods systems among local, national and international stakeholders and strengthening the capacity of pastoralist leaders, organizations and other advocates to articulate the rationale for pastoralism.
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Keywords: livelihoods, pastoralism, Sudan Environment and Livelihoods
MILK MATTERS
Children in the pastoral areas of Somali Region Ethiopia are increasingly among the most nutritionally vulnerable populations in the world. In response to more frequent droughts and recurrent nutritional emergencies in the Region, the international community has tended to prioritize … Read More
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Keywords: Milk Matters, Pastoralism and Policy in Ethiopia
Life in Town: Migration from rural Karamoja to Moroto and Mbale
The latest report on the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda examines the livelihood strategies and vulnerabilities of migrants from rural areas to the urban areas of Moroto and Mbale and documents the opportunities, risks and challenges of life in these towns.
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Keywords: Karamoja, livelihoods, migration
Lifting Livelihoods with Livestock
Between 2008 and 2011, over two thousand households were provided with informal loans for livestock value addition in an effort to graduate them from the Productive Safety Net Programme in Raya Azebo woreda, Ethiopia.
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Keywords: livelihoods, livestock
Developing a Profiling Methodology for Displaced People in Urban Areas
Increasing numbers of the world’s rural population are moving to urban areas, and refugees, internally displaced people and humanitarian populations are amongst the recently urbanized. UNHCR estimates that almost half of the world’s 10.5 million refugees now reside in urban areas.
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Keywords: internally-displaced persons, profiling
Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan
This paper by Paul Fishstein and Andrew Wilder presents findings from research conducted by FIC in five provinces of Afghanistan between July 2008 and January 2010 on the relationship between aid projects and security.
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Keywords: aid and security, conflict, development, terrorism, Winning Hearts and Minds