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Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA): Philippines Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan is the most powerful storm ever recorded. It made landfall in the morning of 8 November in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, causing extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure across nine of the Philippine’s poorest pro
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Childhood under Fire: The impact of two years of conflict in Syria
From the very beginning of the crisis in Syria, children have been its forgotten victims – facing death, trauma and suffering, and deprived of basic humanitarian aid. Childhood under Fire shows how the conflict is affecting all aspects of children’s lives
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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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Regional organisations and humanitarian action
This working paper examines the literature on regional organizations’ humanitarian priorities and activities. It begins a fuller discussion of their tangible contributions to humanitarian action and reviews their work in three different areas: humanitaria
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UNICEF Humanitarian Action for Children 2014. An Overview
UNICEF has appealed for almost US$2.2 billion to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance in 2014 to 85 million people, including 59 million children, who face conflict, natural disasters and other complex emergencies in 50 countries. Almost 40 per cen
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Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers
Psychological first aid: Guide for fieldworkers, released by WHO, the War Trauma Foundation (WTF) and World Vision International (WVI). Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an approach recommended in the IASC Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Supp
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Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Implementation Strategy 2012-2014
The Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) launched the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in Geneva on October 29, 2012. These standards strive to strengthen coordination, improve the quality of protection programs, increase acc
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Analysis of Results and Lessons Learned: 2012 IASC Gender Marker Report
To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance, their different needs must be understood and met. This is why the IASC instituted a “gender marker” which is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether
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Nadie en quien confiar: Los niños y el conflicto armado en Colombia
Colombia’s civilians have been pulled into a decades-long civil war among the government’s forces, paramilitary groups and their successors, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the People’s Liberation Army (ELN). During the conflict, gi
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The road to resilience- bridging relief and development for a more sustainable future
This document presents IFRC's definition of and perspectives on resilience. It presents resilience as the ability of individuals, communities, organisations or countries exposed to disasters, crises and underlying vulnerabilities to anticipate, reduce the
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Comprehensive School Safety: A Toolkit for Development and Humanitarian Actors in the Education Sector
This toolkit is intended for education sector planners, policy-makers and program developers as well as humanitarian assistance providers, and advocates of universal education. It is intended to be useful for developing disaster resilience through the cor
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A Dangerous Delay. The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
This new report from Oxfam and Save the Children “A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa” says how tens of thousands of lives could have been spared in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Afric