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Systems, power, and agency in market-based approaches to poverty
A review of some shortcomings of Market-based approaches (MBAs) and the search for more holistic, systemic approaches.
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Reforms put foreign aid to work fighting corruption and waste
USAID is changing the way it implements US foreign aid programs to put local actors in the driver's seat.
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Hygiene promotion: determining what works
In the aftermath of disasters, Oxfam undertakes a host of hygiene-promotion activities in order to prevent the outbreak and spread of disease. But which are the most effective?
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Local capacity in humanitarian response: Vision or mirage?
The absence of empowered local participation in emergency response has been recognized by most actors in the humanitarian sector. It has been documented in the evaluations of major responses from the African Great Lakes wars in the ‘90s to the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 – and it will undoubtedly be a key finding when the humanitarian sector reviews its earthquake response in Haiti.
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Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) quarterly report: October 2011–December 2011
Rural resilience series
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Crises in a New World Order: Challenging the humanitarian project
The growing number of vulnerable people, the rise in disasters, and the failure to put most fragile states on the path to development, will significantly increase needs.
