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Barber, Rebecca
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An Australian Checklist for Action: Preventing and responding to conflict-related humanitarian crises
Australia has an opportunity to bring its strengths and foreign policy priorities together with its position of regional leadership to more proactively and constructively prevent and respond to conflict-related humanitarian crises. The Checklist provides
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Did the Humanitarian Response to the Nepal Earthquake Ensure No One Was Left Behind?
In April and May 2015, two large-scale earthquakes struck Nepal, killing almost 9,000 people, damaging over half a million houses and displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Natural hazards are indiscriminate: earthquakes have no rega
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One Size Doesn't Fit All: Tailoring the international response to the national need following Vanuatu's cyclone Pam
In March 2015 Vanuatu was struck by one of the worst disasters ever experienced in the Pacific. Winds gusting up to 320 km per hour destroyed homes, infrastructure, crops and livestock and left more than half the population in need of emergency assistance
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Localising the Humanitarian Toolkit: Lessons from recent Philippines disasters
This report was written by Rebecca Barber on behalf of Save the Children and the ASEAN Agreement for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Partnership Group (APG). It forms part of an overall reflection led by the Save the Children Asia Regi
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Access Restricted: A review of remote monitoring practices in Uruzgan Province
There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to the challenges of monitoring in distant, insecure areas with low literacy levels. To be successful, remote monitoring strategies must be based on an analysis of the context, and be developed over time and with t
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Responding to emergencies in Southeast Asia: Can we do better? A review of the humanitarian response to the 2011 Thailand and Cambodia floods
Following flooding in south-east Asia in 2011 that affected millions of people in Thailand and Cambodia, adherence to disaster management systems proved challenging. And, while neither the Thai nor Cambodian governments made a formal appeal for internatio