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Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 82

Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

This pocket guide presents some tried and tested methods for putting impact measurement and accountability into practice throughout the life of a project. It is aimed at humanitarian practitioners, project officers and managers with some experience in the field, and draws on the work of field staff, NGOs, and inter-agency initiatives, including Sphere, ALNAP, HAP International, and People in Aid.

Building Trust in Diverse Teams
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 143

Building Trust in Diverse Teams

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

Building Trust in Diverse Teams supports humanitarian practitioners, human-resource departments and regional and head-office emergency professionals as they improve team effectiveness during an emergency and ultimately improve their ability to save lives.

Patronage Or Partnership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Patronage Or Partnership

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: IDRC

* A refreshing study of capacity building through various local perspectives* Includes studies from Mozambique, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Haiti, and GuatemalaStrengthening local capacity is more difficult than one might expect; there are significant trade-offs between outsiders providing assistance in the midst of an emergency, and encouraging the building of long-term local skills. By critically examining the dilemma from local perspectives, "Patronage or Partnership" finds genuine hope amidst the prevailing rhetoric and confusion.

Toward Resilience
  • Language: en

Toward Resilience

Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation is an introductory resource for development and humanitarian practitioners working with populations at risk of disasters and other impacts of climate change.

Capacity-building
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Capacity-building

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

This book considers specific and practical ways in which NGO's can contribute to enabling people to build on the capacities they already possess. It reviews the types of social organisation with which NGO's might consider working and the provision of training in a variety of relevant skills and activities.

Humanitarian Needs Assessment (Bulk Pack X 20): The Good Enough Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

Humanitarian Needs Assessment (Bulk Pack X 20): The Good Enough Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

What assistance do disaster-affected communities need? This book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential for program planning, monitoring and evaluation. In an emergency response, however, a quick and simple approach to needs assessment may be the only practical possibility--in other words, it needs to be "good enough". This guide does not explain every activity needed to carry out an assessment, but it describes the assessment process and provides a step-by-step guide through the process. It also contains a number of tools and resources that may be helpful when planning or carrying out humanitarian needs assessments. This guide is essential reading for field staff carrying out assessments after a humanitarian crisis; it should also be read by humanitarian policy makers, students, lecturers and researchers.

Enhancing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Through Evaluation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Enhancing Disaster and Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Through Evaluation

In a changing world of fad and fashion, the humanitarian impulse is an enduring quality. This impulse was present in the aftermaths of the Rwandan genocide, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, The first principle of humanitarian assistance is "do no harm." The second might be, "do better!" Enter the evaluation of emergency and disaster management. The route from donor to affected population in long and varied. When sudden, unprecedented needs are juxtaposed with exceptional levels of charitable responses, the question is whether the responses were good enough. Did supply meet demand? Was it the right thing? Was it done well? Who received sup...

Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 509

Health in Humanitarian Emergencies

A comprehensive, best practices resource for public health and healthcare practitioners and students interested in humanitarian emergencies.

The Guide to the HAP Standard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

The Guide to the HAP Standard

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Oxfam

This guide provides everything needed for humanitarian agencies and practitioners who want to improve their accountability and quality systems and are aiming for HAP certification. It will also be useful to government departments and international bodies interested in accountability and good practice in the humanitarian sector.

Strengthening Resilience in Post-disaster Situations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

Strengthening Resilience in Post-disaster Situations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011
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  • Publisher: IDRC

To mitigate, develop, and improve the lives of those vulnerable to intense natural disasters, climate change, and food insecurity, many agencies are funding and implementing diverse activities from reconstruction to rehabilitation, and this book presents the lessons and impacts from a collection of these projects. It describes concepts, strategies, processes, and tools in such a way that they can be easily replicated and shared with a wider audience. This study explains that mid- to long-term interventions, strategies, and practical approaches in particular are being designed and adopted to build the resilience of the poor. It describes valuable practical experiences and lessons from the fie...