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Finance for emergency preparedness: links to resilience
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Publisher(s): Overseas Development Institute
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Niger, Kenya, Nepal

This background note addresses the cost effectiveness of investing in resilience when compared with approaches that rely exclusively on ex-post response and recovery, and the lack of funding...

Special feature: The crisis in the Sahel
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Publisher(s): Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN)
Date: Feb 2014
Location: Kenya, Somalia, Chad, Mali, Niger, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar

This issue of the journal 'Humanitairan Exchange', has a special feature which focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, where aid agencies estimate that more...

National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria

This report deals with the problems encountered by the poor in their struggle to find shelter, specifically addressing how current shelter policies are leaving the poor out of the shelter-delivery...

Evaluation of Experience with Initiating Enabling Shelter Strategies
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Date: Feb 2014
Location: Colombia, India, Nigeria, Thailand

This report uses the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year 2000 as the basis for describing "enabling" strategies and processes in the field of shelter provision and improvement. A...

THE USE OF CASH TRANSFERS IN LIVESTOCK EMERGENCIES
Content Type: Resource
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Publisher(s): Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Date: Sep 2023
Location: Vietnam, Niger, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Pakistan

This paper reviews the use of cash transfers within the livestock sector and suggests how they can be incorporated into and support Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS). The...