Executive Summary
We should be winning in HIV prevention. There are effective means to prevent every mode of transmission; political commitment on HIV has never been stronger; and financing for HIV programs in low- and middle- income countries increased sixfold between 2001 and 2006. However, while attention to the epidemic, particularly for treatment access, has increased in recent years, the effort to reduce HIV incidence is faltering. For every patient who initiated antiretroviral therapy in 2006, six other individuals became infected with HIV (1, 2). If current trends continue, it is projected that 60 million more HIV infections will occur by 2015, and the annual number of new HIV infections will increase by 20% or more by 2012. Unless the number of new infections is sharply reduced, global efforts to make AIDS treatment widely available will become increasingly difficult, and millions more people may die as a result of preventable HIV infections. The dramatic rise in antiretroviral coverage, with global access increasing from 8% to 28% between 2003 and 2006, illustrates what the world can accomplish with strong global commitment, increased financing, and collective action. To date, a similar confluence of forces has not been applied to HIV prevention.
This challenge, pivotal to the future health and well-being of millions, is the focus of this report by the Global HIV Prevention Working Group. It offers a new analysis that examines the future course of the epidemic with and without a greatly scaled-up prevention response; surveys the latest evidence on HIV prevention access; reviews the experience in countries where such barriers have been overcome; and closes with a series of urgent recommendations to bring the promise of HIV prevention to the countries and communities that need it the most. As the report shows, even in the midst of global failure to make optimal use of available prevention strategies, a number of countries, including some of the world’s poorest, have made tangible progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections through implementation of comprehensive HIV prevention efforts. Strong evidence and replicable models exist for HIV prevention scale-up, underscoring the need to move beyond localized pilot projects to broad-based, comprehensive national programs. If comprehensive HIV prevention were brought to scale, half of the infections projected to occur by 2015 could be averted. We believe that the future need not be a legacy of the past.
The full report is available to download from the Reliefweb website (746KB pdf).
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
June
BRCS INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY BULLETIN
Bulletin on International Humanitarian News, Events and Publications
(2007:6, June)
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BRCS International Monthly Seminar Programme
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Forthcoming seminars and workshops:
Tuesday 10th July 2007, 1pm - Catherine Chazaly (returning BRC Zimbabwe Delegate) - Addressing food and livelihood security in Home Based Care programming in Zimbabwe
Forthcoming: Charles Garraway of ILD on Cluster Munitions, date TBC
Suggestions for topics and speakers for future seminars are very welcome - please contact Laura Walker, HPP Team Coordinator (x7533).
------------------------------------------------------
NEWS
-------
Rethinking Vulnerability: an update
Over the course of the last year we have been asking staff, volunteers and partners from outside the Society to help us rethink the British Red Cross' role working with vulnerable people - to build on our strengths and discover what more we can do to support people who need us most. Vulnerability is dynamic, triggered by threats and situations, and can make different people vulnerable in different ways at different times. We can help people prepare for when vulnerability spills over into crisis, and help them respond to, or recover from it. Building on this central idea we are developing our understanding of the outcomes we want to help people achieve. For a more in depth update see the link below. The Rethinking Vulnerability framework is also attached, as well as the powerpoint which was presented to International during our June planning week.
http://intranet.redcross.org.uk/BRCS/Aroundthecorner/Vulnerability/index.htm
--
NGOs in Iraq - NGOs Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI)
Eight million people are estimated to be in need of immediate assistance as a consequence of the Iraq humanitarian crisis. Amongst them, 4 million are reported to be displaced and over 4 million people were considered as food insecure inside Iraq in 2005, when the overall situation was not as bad as it is today.This document aims to update readers on the context and to the ongoing need for humanitarian intervention in Iraq despite the very insecure environment and the numerous constraints faced by aid workers in the field.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LRON-737HCD?OpenDocument
--
Wahenga comment - Lesotho and Swaziland: Isn't it time we used cash instead of food to address hunger?
Reduced domestic harvests and high regional prices have adversely affected food security in Lesotho and Swaziland this year. A recent FAO/WFP assessment indicates that over 400,000 people in Swaziland are food insecure and will need 40,000 tonnes of food aid during the coming year. The FAO/WFP assessment for Lesotho has yet to be released. But is food aid the right response to this year's crisis? Both countries border South Africa, are traditionally net food importers and have strong market ties with their larger neighbour. Internally, both Lesotho and Swaziland have relatively good communication systems and extensive networks of retailers. Most, if not all, households, even in the remotest parts of the two countries, are reliant on the market to meet a large part of their staple food and other basic needs. Why provide food aid in such circumstances? Surely it would be as cheap, quicker and more market and producer friendly to look for a cash solution?
http://www.wahenga.net/index.php/views/comments_view/cash_instead_of_food/
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
-----------------------------
ODI Report launch and discussion: 'Remittances during crises: Implications for humanitarian response' -
Wednesday 25 July, 1.00-2.30PM, ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD
Speakers:
Kevin Savage, Research Officer, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI
Anna Lindley, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford
Helen Young, Research Director, Nutrition and Livelihoods, Feinstein International Center
Chair: TBC
Remittances during crises, the latest report from ODI's Humanitarian Policy Group, argues that humanitarian actors could do much more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief and peoples' own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis. This could take the form of helping to replace lost or destroyed identity cards which are needed to collect money; working with the private sector to rapidly re-establish access to telecommunications so that people can phone home; even setting up internet cafes in displacement or refugee camps.
At this ODI event, the lead author of the report, Kevin Savage, will present its findings. This will be followed by presentations from Anna Lindley and Helen Young, both of whom contributed to the report by providing country case studies on Darfur and Somalia respectively.
If you would like to attend, please send an email with your name, organisation and contact details to: meetings@odi.org.uk
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PUBLICATIONS
------------------
NB If you would like hard copies of any of the larger downloadable publications featured here, please request them from Laura Walker, who will arrange for a library copy to be printed and dispatched to you.
------------------
HPG Report 25 - Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response
This latest HPG report explores how affected people use remittance income to survive and recover from crises. It also looks at the effect that crises can have on remittance flows and the way that humanitarian responses consider the role of remittances.
The study concludes that, while remittances should not be seen as a panacea or substitute for humanitarian action, there is clear potential for humanitarian actors to do more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief and people's own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis. For this reason, the design of assistance programmes should be done in ways that complement and enhance remittance flows. This means flexible assistance programming, which enables people to combine their own resources and capacities with the resources provided through relief.
To access the project page, where you can download the full report, go to http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/remittances.html
--
Special Issue of Disasters: Food Security in Sudan
Guest Edited by Kirsten Gelsdorf, Peter Walker and Daniel Maxwell
In Sudan, the full panoply of global change processes is veraciously being played out, to cause crisis or offer potential opportunity. Which way the pendulum swings depends on how the main actors on the ground choose to react. Famine, food insecurity and the supply of international food aid have been a constant part of the Sudan picture since the late 1960s but does it have to be that way?
This special issue of Disasters contains a selection of the best papers presented at a unique forum, organised by the World Food Programme and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and held in Khartoum in June 2006. The forum encouraged WFP-Sudan to think outside the box, to imagine alternative roles to the emergency-driven food-aid distribution which had come to dominate their Sudan operations in 2005/6. WFP, along with the government of Sudan, is positioned to set an international example of what can be done with the tools at their disposal, to seize this opportunity and build a 21st century approach to the alleviation of food insecurity - to save lives and livelihoods. The papers in this special issue examine why such an approach is desperately needed and how it might be achieved.
Table of contents at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/31/s1 - full issue available from the BRC Library (contact Bridget Andrews for details)
--
ALNAP paper: Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity - Learning from previous relief and recovery responses
As the latest in a series focusing on lessons learnt from relief and recovery operations, ALNAP and the ProVention Consortium have published a briefing paper on "Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity". The lessons are drawn from evaluations of past relief and recovery responses and cover a range of topics - including supporting livelihoods, assessment, designing effective interventions, participation, targeting, coordination, learning, and risk reduction. It also contains a list of suggested key resources for further information.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-74CG5Y/$FILE/Full_Report.pdf
--
WFP - 2006 Food Aid flows
Food aid deliveries declined by 18 percent in 2006 to 6.7 million tons, its lowest level since 1973. After the small increase in 2005, food aid deliveries continued an overall declining trend. All three categories of food aid declined. Emergency food aid suffered the largest drop with 20 percent in 2006. Programme food aid declined by 19 percent and project food aid by 14 percent. This declining trend in food aid is in contrast with the rapid increase in Official Development Assistance (ODA) in recent years from almost $60 billion in 1997, an historic low, to $107 billion in 2005, the highest level ever (all in constant 2005 dollars) and $101 billion in 2006.
There appears to be an increasing gap between needs and responses. There are 146 million underweight children under the age of 5 and 820 million hungry people in the developing world. The number of natural disasters has increased from less than 250 events per year in the first half of the 1990s to more than 450 events since 2000. Climate change and the related extreme weather events are only likely to put further upward pressure on this trend.
Read more at http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SBOI-73VKU4/$FILE/WFP_2006%20Food%20Aid%20Flows_June%202007.pdf?OpenElement
--
ISDR: Learning from Disaster Recovery: Guidance for Decision Makers - preliminary version for consulatation.
This document hopes to begin to provide a wider understanding and use of disaster risk reduction principles for more effective and enduring disaster recovery in the future. The overall objective of this report is to assist decision makers and other community leaders in their efforts to create more resilient societies through well-considered and effectively implemented recovery operations.
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/irp/Learning-From-Disaster-Recovery.pdf
--
Characteristics, context and risk: NGO insecurity in confict zones
Larissa Fast - Disasters Volume 31 Issue 2 Page 130-154, June 2007
This paper reports on research conducted on the insecurity of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 1999 and 2002, with the goal of contributing to the debate on the reasons why NGO actors are targets of violence in confict settings. The research involved the collection of data from three countries-Angola, Ecuador and Sierra Leone-and exploration of the relationship between levels of insecurity, context and the characteristics of NGOs. Four risk factors appear to heighten the degree of insecurity that NGOs face: (1) carrying out multiple types of activities and providing material aid; (2)'operationality'(that is, implementing programmes and activities); (3) working with both sides of the confict; and (4) integrating into the local community. The paper discusses the methodological approach adopted for the research, the differences between ambient and situational insecurity and the fndings related to risk factors. It concludes with a summary of the study's implications.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/disa - or from the BRC library
------------------------------------------------------
NEW PUBLICATIONS in the BRCS LIBRARY
Pick these up at the library (6th floor) or by contacting Bridget Andrews, Librarian (x7056)
All suggestions or requests for new acquisitions are welcome, either for the library or for departmental use.
Do you know that you can access journal articles from your desk? For a quick induction explaining the resources held by the library and how to use them, please contact Bridget Andrews.
------------------------------------------------
The 'protection crisis' : a review of field-based strategies for humanitarian protection in Darfur / Sara Pantuliano and Sorcha O'Callaghan (ODI, 2006)
The paper analyses the evolution and impact of the conflict in Darfur and examines the response by the international community, using the ICRC 'egg framework' which breaks down the response into responsive action, remedial action and environment-building. This is followed by an analysis of the challenges encountered by humanitarian agencies undertaking protection programming in Darfur, and of the gaps in the response, as well as a discussion of the politics of protection and the dilemmas of leadership and co-ordination.
Shelfmark: 3.5 PAN
--
Contingency planning and humanitarian action : a review of practice / Richard Choularton (ODI, 2007)
Paper exploring the current process and practice of contingency planning in humanitarian organisations, setting out the key terms and concepts, looking at the planning process and explaining the main models used. The aim is to identify the remaining problems in the field and suggest a way forward.
Shelfmark: 5.3 CHO
--
Effective consultancies in development and humanitarian programmes / John Rowley and Frances Rubin (Oxfam GB, 2006)
This book is intended for both staff in NGOs who use and work with consultants, and for people who provide or are thinking of providing consultancy services in the field of international aid and development. It covers the whole process of a consultancy, from deciding on the need and scope to assessing the results, including legal, financial and ethical concerns.
Shelfmark: 10.3 ROW
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Measuring vulnerability to natural hazards : towards disaster resilient societies / edited by Jörn Birkmann (United Nations University Press, 2006)
A broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability, providing an overview of different concepts at the global, regional, national and local levels. Contributors analyse the strengths and limitations of qualitative and quantative approaches to vulnerability assessment. The book includes experiences and examples to illustrate the theoretical analyses, and also draws attention to issues with insufficient coverage, such as the environmental and institutional dimensions of vulnerability, and methods to combine different methodologies.
Shelfmark: 5.4 MEA
--
Toolkits : a practical guide to planning. monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment / Louisa Gosling with Mike Edwards. 2nd ed. (Save the Children, 2003)
The first section looks at the importance of the planning and evaluation process in development and relief work. The second begins by covering the underlying principles for the process, namely involvement of the relevant people; recognition of differences and avoidance of discrimination; systematic analysis and collection of information. It then deals in detail with the processes involved in planning, monitoring, review, evaluation, and impact assessment. The final section describes in detail the different tools and techniques referred to in previous chapters.
Shelfmark: 6.32 GOS. Second copy held by Disaster Management
--
Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text / Michael Quinn Patton. 3rd ed. (SAGE, 1997)
Guidance on how and why to conduct programme evaluations that can contribute to the effectiveness of the programme. Each chapter includes a review of the literature, case examples and practical tools.
Shelfmark: 10.3 PAT
--
Tools for knowledge and learning : a guide for development and humanitarian organisations / Ben Ramalingam (ODI, 2006)
Tools for strategy development; management techniques; collaboration mechanisms; knowledge sharing and learning; and capturing and storing knowledge. Illustrative examples are taken from development and humanitarian projects.
Shelfmark: 14.1 RAM
------------------------------------------------------
Contribute to this bulletin by e-mailing submissions and feedback to Laura Walker, HPP PA (x7533).
Bulletin on International Humanitarian News, Events and Publications
(2007:6, June)
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
BRCS International Monthly Seminar Programme
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Forthcoming seminars and workshops:
Tuesday 10th July 2007, 1pm - Catherine Chazaly (returning BRC Zimbabwe Delegate) - Addressing food and livelihood security in Home Based Care programming in Zimbabwe
Forthcoming: Charles Garraway of ILD on Cluster Munitions, date TBC
Suggestions for topics and speakers for future seminars are very welcome - please contact Laura Walker, HPP Team Coordinator (x7533).
------------------------------------------------------
NEWS
-------
Rethinking Vulnerability: an update
Over the course of the last year we have been asking staff, volunteers and partners from outside the Society to help us rethink the British Red Cross' role working with vulnerable people - to build on our strengths and discover what more we can do to support people who need us most. Vulnerability is dynamic, triggered by threats and situations, and can make different people vulnerable in different ways at different times. We can help people prepare for when vulnerability spills over into crisis, and help them respond to, or recover from it. Building on this central idea we are developing our understanding of the outcomes we want to help people achieve. For a more in depth update see the link below. The Rethinking Vulnerability framework is also attached, as well as the powerpoint which was presented to International during our June planning week.
http://intranet.redcross.org.uk/BRCS/Aroundthecorner/Vulnerability/index.htm
--
NGOs in Iraq - NGOs Coordination Committee in Iraq (NCCI)
Eight million people are estimated to be in need of immediate assistance as a consequence of the Iraq humanitarian crisis. Amongst them, 4 million are reported to be displaced and over 4 million people were considered as food insecure inside Iraq in 2005, when the overall situation was not as bad as it is today.This document aims to update readers on the context and to the ongoing need for humanitarian intervention in Iraq despite the very insecure environment and the numerous constraints faced by aid workers in the field.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LRON-737HCD?OpenDocument
--
Wahenga comment - Lesotho and Swaziland: Isn't it time we used cash instead of food to address hunger?
Reduced domestic harvests and high regional prices have adversely affected food security in Lesotho and Swaziland this year. A recent FAO/WFP assessment indicates that over 400,000 people in Swaziland are food insecure and will need 40,000 tonnes of food aid during the coming year. The FAO/WFP assessment for Lesotho has yet to be released. But is food aid the right response to this year's crisis? Both countries border South Africa, are traditionally net food importers and have strong market ties with their larger neighbour. Internally, both Lesotho and Swaziland have relatively good communication systems and extensive networks of retailers. Most, if not all, households, even in the remotest parts of the two countries, are reliant on the market to meet a large part of their staple food and other basic needs. Why provide food aid in such circumstances? Surely it would be as cheap, quicker and more market and producer friendly to look for a cash solution?
http://www.wahenga.net/index.php/views/comments_view/cash_instead_of_food/
------------------------------------------------------
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
-----------------------------
ODI Report launch and discussion: 'Remittances during crises: Implications for humanitarian response' -
Wednesday 25 July, 1.00-2.30PM, ODI, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD
Speakers:
Kevin Savage, Research Officer, Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI
Anna Lindley, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford
Helen Young, Research Director, Nutrition and Livelihoods, Feinstein International Center
Chair: TBC
Remittances during crises, the latest report from ODI's Humanitarian Policy Group, argues that humanitarian actors could do much more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief and peoples' own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis. This could take the form of helping to replace lost or destroyed identity cards which are needed to collect money; working with the private sector to rapidly re-establish access to telecommunications so that people can phone home; even setting up internet cafes in displacement or refugee camps.
At this ODI event, the lead author of the report, Kevin Savage, will present its findings. This will be followed by presentations from Anna Lindley and Helen Young, both of whom contributed to the report by providing country case studies on Darfur and Somalia respectively.
If you would like to attend, please send an email with your name, organisation and contact details to: meetings@odi.org.uk
------------------------------------------------------
PUBLICATIONS
------------------
NB If you would like hard copies of any of the larger downloadable publications featured here, please request them from Laura Walker, who will arrange for a library copy to be printed and dispatched to you.
------------------
HPG Report 25 - Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response
This latest HPG report explores how affected people use remittance income to survive and recover from crises. It also looks at the effect that crises can have on remittance flows and the way that humanitarian responses consider the role of remittances.
The study concludes that, while remittances should not be seen as a panacea or substitute for humanitarian action, there is clear potential for humanitarian actors to do more to explore the complementarities between emergency relief and people's own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis. For this reason, the design of assistance programmes should be done in ways that complement and enhance remittance flows. This means flexible assistance programming, which enables people to combine their own resources and capacities with the resources provided through relief.
To access the project page, where you can download the full report, go to http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/remittances.html
--
Special Issue of Disasters: Food Security in Sudan
Guest Edited by Kirsten Gelsdorf, Peter Walker and Daniel Maxwell
In Sudan, the full panoply of global change processes is veraciously being played out, to cause crisis or offer potential opportunity. Which way the pendulum swings depends on how the main actors on the ground choose to react. Famine, food insecurity and the supply of international food aid have been a constant part of the Sudan picture since the late 1960s but does it have to be that way?
This special issue of Disasters contains a selection of the best papers presented at a unique forum, organised by the World Food Programme and the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and held in Khartoum in June 2006. The forum encouraged WFP-Sudan to think outside the box, to imagine alternative roles to the emergency-driven food-aid distribution which had come to dominate their Sudan operations in 2005/6. WFP, along with the government of Sudan, is positioned to set an international example of what can be done with the tools at their disposal, to seize this opportunity and build a 21st century approach to the alleviation of food insecurity - to save lives and livelihoods. The papers in this special issue examine why such an approach is desperately needed and how it might be achieved.
Table of contents at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/31/s1 - full issue available from the BRC Library (contact Bridget Andrews for details)
--
ALNAP paper: Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity - Learning from previous relief and recovery responses
As the latest in a series focusing on lessons learnt from relief and recovery operations, ALNAP and the ProVention Consortium have published a briefing paper on "Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity". The lessons are drawn from evaluations of past relief and recovery responses and cover a range of topics - including supporting livelihoods, assessment, designing effective interventions, participation, targeting, coordination, learning, and risk reduction. It also contains a list of suggested key resources for further information.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-74CG5Y/$FILE/Full_Report.pdf
--
WFP - 2006 Food Aid flows
Food aid deliveries declined by 18 percent in 2006 to 6.7 million tons, its lowest level since 1973. After the small increase in 2005, food aid deliveries continued an overall declining trend. All three categories of food aid declined. Emergency food aid suffered the largest drop with 20 percent in 2006. Programme food aid declined by 19 percent and project food aid by 14 percent. This declining trend in food aid is in contrast with the rapid increase in Official Development Assistance (ODA) in recent years from almost $60 billion in 1997, an historic low, to $107 billion in 2005, the highest level ever (all in constant 2005 dollars) and $101 billion in 2006.
There appears to be an increasing gap between needs and responses. There are 146 million underweight children under the age of 5 and 820 million hungry people in the developing world. The number of natural disasters has increased from less than 250 events per year in the first half of the 1990s to more than 450 events since 2000. Climate change and the related extreme weather events are only likely to put further upward pressure on this trend.
Read more at http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/SBOI-73VKU4/$FILE/WFP_2006%20Food%20Aid%20Flows_June%202007.pdf?OpenElement
--
ISDR: Learning from Disaster Recovery: Guidance for Decision Makers - preliminary version for consulatation.
This document hopes to begin to provide a wider understanding and use of disaster risk reduction principles for more effective and enduring disaster recovery in the future. The overall objective of this report is to assist decision makers and other community leaders in their efforts to create more resilient societies through well-considered and effectively implemented recovery operations.
http://www.unisdr.org/eng/about_isdr/isdr-publications/irp/Learning-From-Disaster-Recovery.pdf
--
Characteristics, context and risk: NGO insecurity in confict zones
Larissa Fast - Disasters Volume 31 Issue 2 Page 130-154, June 2007
This paper reports on research conducted on the insecurity of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) between 1999 and 2002, with the goal of contributing to the debate on the reasons why NGO actors are targets of violence in confict settings. The research involved the collection of data from three countries-Angola, Ecuador and Sierra Leone-and exploration of the relationship between levels of insecurity, context and the characteristics of NGOs. Four risk factors appear to heighten the degree of insecurity that NGOs face: (1) carrying out multiple types of activities and providing material aid; (2)'operationality'(that is, implementing programmes and activities); (3) working with both sides of the confict; and (4) integrating into the local community. The paper discusses the methodological approach adopted for the research, the differences between ambient and situational insecurity and the fndings related to risk factors. It concludes with a summary of the study's implications.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/disa - or from the BRC library
------------------------------------------------------
NEW PUBLICATIONS in the BRCS LIBRARY
Pick these up at the library (6th floor) or by contacting Bridget Andrews, Librarian (x7056)
All suggestions or requests for new acquisitions are welcome, either for the library or for departmental use.
Do you know that you can access journal articles from your desk? For a quick induction explaining the resources held by the library and how to use them, please contact Bridget Andrews.
------------------------------------------------
The 'protection crisis' : a review of field-based strategies for humanitarian protection in Darfur / Sara Pantuliano and Sorcha O'Callaghan (ODI, 2006)
The paper analyses the evolution and impact of the conflict in Darfur and examines the response by the international community, using the ICRC 'egg framework' which breaks down the response into responsive action, remedial action and environment-building. This is followed by an analysis of the challenges encountered by humanitarian agencies undertaking protection programming in Darfur, and of the gaps in the response, as well as a discussion of the politics of protection and the dilemmas of leadership and co-ordination.
Shelfmark: 3.5 PAN
--
Contingency planning and humanitarian action : a review of practice / Richard Choularton (ODI, 2007)
Paper exploring the current process and practice of contingency planning in humanitarian organisations, setting out the key terms and concepts, looking at the planning process and explaining the main models used. The aim is to identify the remaining problems in the field and suggest a way forward.
Shelfmark: 5.3 CHO
--
Effective consultancies in development and humanitarian programmes / John Rowley and Frances Rubin (Oxfam GB, 2006)
This book is intended for both staff in NGOs who use and work with consultants, and for people who provide or are thinking of providing consultancy services in the field of international aid and development. It covers the whole process of a consultancy, from deciding on the need and scope to assessing the results, including legal, financial and ethical concerns.
Shelfmark: 10.3 ROW
--
Measuring vulnerability to natural hazards : towards disaster resilient societies / edited by Jörn Birkmann (United Nations University Press, 2006)
A broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability, providing an overview of different concepts at the global, regional, national and local levels. Contributors analyse the strengths and limitations of qualitative and quantative approaches to vulnerability assessment. The book includes experiences and examples to illustrate the theoretical analyses, and also draws attention to issues with insufficient coverage, such as the environmental and institutional dimensions of vulnerability, and methods to combine different methodologies.
Shelfmark: 5.4 MEA
--
Toolkits : a practical guide to planning. monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment / Louisa Gosling with Mike Edwards. 2nd ed. (Save the Children, 2003)
The first section looks at the importance of the planning and evaluation process in development and relief work. The second begins by covering the underlying principles for the process, namely involvement of the relevant people; recognition of differences and avoidance of discrimination; systematic analysis and collection of information. It then deals in detail with the processes involved in planning, monitoring, review, evaluation, and impact assessment. The final section describes in detail the different tools and techniques referred to in previous chapters.
Shelfmark: 6.32 GOS. Second copy held by Disaster Management
--
Utilization-focused evaluation : the new century text / Michael Quinn Patton. 3rd ed. (SAGE, 1997)
Guidance on how and why to conduct programme evaluations that can contribute to the effectiveness of the programme. Each chapter includes a review of the literature, case examples and practical tools.
Shelfmark: 10.3 PAT
--
Tools for knowledge and learning : a guide for development and humanitarian organisations / Ben Ramalingam (ODI, 2006)
Tools for strategy development; management techniques; collaboration mechanisms; knowledge sharing and learning; and capturing and storing knowledge. Illustrative examples are taken from development and humanitarian projects.
Shelfmark: 14.1 RAM
------------------------------------------------------
Contribute to this bulletin by e-mailing submissions and feedback to Laura Walker, HPP PA (x7533).
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