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Community-Driven Financial Inclusion for the Most Vulnerable Households: Lessons from the Tat Lan Programme's Village Savings and Loan Associations in Rakhine, Myanmar
This report highlights lessons from the Tat Lan Programme’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) in Rakhine, Myanmar. The Tat Lan Programme, funded by the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT) in Myanmar was implemented in two phases (20
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From Cyclone to Food Crisis: Ensuring the needs of women and girls are prioritized in the Cyclone Idai and Kenneth responses
After the double tragedy and devastation of Cyclone Idai in March 2019 and Cyclone Kenneth six weeks later, the people of Mozambique now face yet another crisis: a food security crisis. At least 433,056 households have had their land and crops partially o
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Promise to Practice: Following through on commitments to support the future of Syria and the region
The conflict in Syria has created the largest displacement crisis in well over a generation, possibly since the second world war. Six million people remain displaced internally, more than five million are registered as refugees in neighbouring countries a
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Building Climate Resilience: Lessons and recommendations from a community-based adaptation project in Vanuatu
Vanuatu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change and disaster risks. Located on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’ and in a ‘cyclone belt’, it is uniquely sensitive to a wide range of climate and disaster risks, including tropical cy
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Rapid Assessment of the Drought in Koh Kong Province: Final report (April 2016)
El Niño is an abnormal weather pattern caused when warm water from the western Pacific Ocean flows eastward. It results from variations in ocean temperatures in the Pacific around the equator and occurs on average every two to seven years. Cambodia is cur
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"More than Six Months Stranded- What Now?": A joint policy brief on the situation for Displaced Persons in Greece
Over 60,000 people fleeing war, poverty, and natural disasters are currently stranded in Greece. The aim of this briefing is to explain the current situation for those stranded in Greece for over six months since the closure of the northern border and int
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Multi-Sector Rapid Needs Assessment: Imatong State, South Sudan
South Sudan suffers from decades of conflict and neglect. Despite a 2015 peace agreement, the current conflict has expanded across the country in recent months, culminating in an outbreak of hostilities in the capital Juba on the 8th of July, 2016. Renewe
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State of the World's Fathers: Balkan review
This report contains a review of regional policies and practices in the Balkan region which recognize the actual shift in contextualization of gender issues as exclusively women issues. This means that gender issues are also now being considered men issue
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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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Gender-Sensitive Disaster Risk Reduction: A training curriculum for village disaster preparedness unit staff in Lao PDR
>> Click here to return to the Community Based Disaster Risk Management Minimum Standards This training manual is part of the CARE’s Disaster Risk Reduction-gender work-package and specifically aims to provide background information on the key issues rela
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Right to a Future: Empowering refugees from Syria and host governments to face a long-term crisis
With no end to the conflict in Syria in sight, the four million people forced to flee the country have no foreseeable prospect of safe return. And as the impact of the crisis on neighbouring countries grows and aid dries up, the situation for these refuge
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"To Protect Her Honour": Child marriage in emergencies- the fatal confusion between protecting girls and sexual violence
Published by CARE International, this publication is part of the Gender and Protection in Humanitarian Contexts: Critical Issues Series, which is designed to inform and highlight promising practices and/or gaps in programming and to critically analyse wor