Research & Publications: Emergencies & conflict

Title Date Size Type

From the ground up

Women’s roles in local peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan and Sierra Leone.

By ActionAid
24/09/2012 507.16 KB pdf

Synthesis Report: Review of the engagement of NGOs with the humanitarian reform process

The project aims to increase the effective engagement of international, national, and local NGOs in humanitarian reform (clusters, humanitarian financing, and Humanitarian Coordinator strengthening) and places a particular emphasis on catalyzing NGO engagement in humanitarian reform processes.

By ActionAid
12/11/2009 892.11 KB pdf

Saving Lives, Protecting Rights

Saving Lives, Protecting Rights:
An Introduction to ActionAid’s work on Human Security in Emergencies and Conflict

By ActionAid
14/08/2008 1.71 MB pdf

Unjust Waters

Climate change, flooding and the protection of poor
urban communities: experiences from six African cities.

By ActionAid
02/02/2007 2.19 MB pdf

Up in smoke? Latin America and the Caribbean

The third report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development examining the threat from climate change to the environment and human development in Latin America and the Carribean.

By Working Group on Climate Change and Development
29/08/2006 1.76 MB pdf

The Evolving UN Cluster Approach in the Pakistan Earthquake: An NGO Perspective

A pilot UN initiative to attempt to improve accountability and coordination in humanitarian response by identifying organisations to lead on specific elements, or clusters of a response. While the research found that the cluster approach has the potential to be effective, there were a number of factors that hampered the experience in Pakistan.

By ActionAid
24/04/2006 607.47 KB pdf

Successful People Centred Early Warning Systems: 10 Essential Ingredients

ActionAid's recommendations to the third early warning conference held in Bonn, March 2006.

By ActionAid
01/03/2006 24.26 KB pdf

Tsunami response: A human rights assessment

This report criticises official relief, compensation and rehousing programmes on a number of counts including forced relocation, shoddy construction, and neglect of the needs of vulnerable groups including women, children and ethnic minorities.

By ActionAid International
02/02/2006 592.06 KB pdf

Disaster Risk Reduction: Implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA)

Briefing Paper: The under-lying causes of disaster vulnerability lie in inequality, discrimination and exploitation. Vulnerability to natural disasters is also the result of weak institutions at the governmental level, with little enforcement power, making poor development policy decisions, which have the greatest impact on the poor.

By ActionAid International
16/01/2006 120.12 KB pdf

Africa - Up in Smoke?

This second report from Working Group on Climate Change and Development warns that efforts to fight poverty in Africa will fail unless urgent action is taken to halt climate change.

By Working Group on Climate Change and Development
01/06/2005 1.35 MB pdf

Pages