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The World Climate and Security Report 2021

Brock, S.; Barrett, O.L.; Birkman, L.; et al. International Military Council on Climate and Security (2021) CC

The World Climate and Security Report (WCSR) 2021 from the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security is a global assessment of the security dimensions of a changing climate and effective means to address them. It is intended to inform timely climate and security po ... more

Africa, WASH, and the Millennium Development Goals: A Local Systems Case Study of How Senegal Achieved MDG Target 7c

McGahey, Christopher USAID (2017) C1

Nationally, Senegal met the MDG target for water supply access. It did this by engaging the public and private sectors to effectively invest and report on investments. It focused on larger population centers, less on remote regions of the country. Its achievements set the stage for more equitable an ... more

West Africa Desert Locust Crisis Appeal (May–December 2020)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO; reliefweb (2020) C2

Recent forecasts by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have indicated a risk of locust invasion in West Africa from June 2020. From East Africa, some swarms could reach the eastern part of the Sahel and continue westwards from Chad to Mauritania. Surveillance and co ... more

The West African Initiative for Climate-Smart Agriculture (WAICSA)

Chiriac, D.; et al. GIZ; Bloomberg Philatrhopies, IFAG; et al. (2019) CC

The Lab identifies, develops, and launches sustainable finance instruments that can drive billions to a low-carbon economy. The 2019 Global Lab Cycle targets four specific sectors across mitigation and adaptation: blue carbon in marine & coastal ecosystems; sustainable agriculture for smallholde ... more

Creating a Healing Environment - Volume II: Technical Papers

John Frederick International Labour Organization IPEC & Trafficking in Children-South Asia (TICSA) (2002) C1

Psycho-Social Rehabilitation and Occupational Integration of Child Survivors of Trafficking and Other Worst Forms of Child Labour |

Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in the Vocational Training Sector in Botswana

Kruger, V. & Dilger, H. German HIV Practice Collection (GHPC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (2011) C2

German HIV Practice Collection: Publications in this Collection describe programmes supported by German Development Cooperation that have been assessed as “promising or good practice” by an editorial board of experts from German development organizations and by two international peer reviewers w ... more

Catholic Social Teaching and Social Development in Africa

Centre for Social Justice and Ethics, CUEA (2020) C2

A paper presented during a conference on The Catholic Social Teaching and its Social and Political impact on the Development 9thto 10th December, in Schloss Eichholz Koln/Cologne/GermanyPresented by Sr. Dr. Elizabeth Nduku accessed July 2020

Dublin-III-Regulation (English version)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (2013) CC2

The Dublin Regulation (Regulation No. 604/2013; sometimes the Dublin III Regulation; previously the Dublin II Regulation and Dublin Convention) is a European Union (EU) law that determines the EU Member State responsible to examine an application for asylum seekers seeking international protection u ... more

Humanitarian Access in situations of armed conflict Field manual - Edition 2.0
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Conflict Dynamics International; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC (2014) C1

The companion Handbook on Humanitarian Access presents the normative framework pertaining to humanitarian access in situations of armed conflict, and therefore serves as a useful reference source for humanitarian practitioners on the normative framework. This initial version of the Field Manual – ... more

Targeting in Complex Emergencies - South Sudan Country Case Study

Maxwell, D. & Burns, J. Feinstein International Center, Tufts University; WFP (2008)

This research is one case in a study commissioned by the World Food Programme to investigate the participation of recipient community in the targeting and management of humanitarian food assistance in complex emergencies. The study involved a substantial desk review of existing documentation, and th ... more

To Stay and Deliver - Good practice for humanitarians in complex security environments

Jan Egeland, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Adele Harmer and Abby Stoddard, Humanitarian Outcomes Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2011) C2

The report offers an analysis of the broader challenges to securing humanitarian action and recommends areas for improvement. This study will contribute to improving the way humanitarians ‘do business’ in complex security environments. Document also available in French, Arabic and Spanish.

Protecting Humanitarian Action: Key Challenges and Lessons from the Field

Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action ATHA Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (2016) C1

The first section highlights knowledge and questions regarding security incidents, trends, and causes of violence, including around causes and motives for attacks, and tensions between individual and collective responses. The next section then explores the role of the humanitarian principles, and th ... more

Five actions for disability-inclusive disaster risk management

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) (2018)

A recent survey of the literature and experience identified five broad actions that development institutions and governments, as well as their partners and stakeholders, can take to improve disability-inclusive disaster risk management. Those five actions are:
- Include persons with disabilitie ... more

Building Agreement on Restitution Rights with the Myanmar Peace Process and National Legal FrameworkK. Manual for Practioners

Norwegian Refugee Council, Displacement Solutions, Joint Peace Fund (2019) C1

This manual outlines proposals for the insertion of housing, land and property restitution rights simultaneously within the context of the ongoing peace process and within broader national legal reform efforts, including work towards a national land law. The paper begins by emphasising that many cou ... more

War child: "I´ve moved, my rights haven't" (Towards a global action plan for children forced to flee)
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War Child War Child (2016) C1

We live in a world in which 28 million children have been driven from their homes as a result of conflict, persecution and insecurity¹. If current trends continue, more than 63 million children could be forced to flee by 2025², of which over 25 million will cross borders and become refugees. At ... more

Global Education Monitoring Report 2020: Latin America and the Caribbean: Inclusion and education: All means all

UNESCO (2020) C1

Key Messages and Recommendations. The Report, Todos y todas sin excepción, produced by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report and the Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC /UNESCO Santiago), along with the Laboratory of Education, Research and Innovation in ... more

Transforming Agriculture in Southern Africa

Sikora, R.A.; et al. Routledge (2020) CC

Constraints, Technologies, Policies and Processes

Global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights

UN Human Rights Council (2016) CC

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)

The 2030 Agenda: THE INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES - COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE

International Disability Alliance (IDA) & International Disability and Development Consortium (IDDC) (2015) C2

This guide presents information about the 2030 Agenda, how it connects to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and explores potential entry points for persons with disabilities to influence and participate in their implementation, follow-up and review

Contingency Plan. Nepal: Earthquake

Humanitarian Country Team (HCT), Nepal (2016) C1

In April and May 2015, Nepal was hit by two major earthquakes killing around 9,000 people and leaving many thousands more injured and homeless.
To optimize the speed and volume of critical humanitarian assistance, the HCT has developed this Plan to:
1. Reach a common understanding of earth ... more