This manual is a guide for those tasked with responding to post-disaster housing reconstruction needs. It details the various processes, tasks, and interventions involved in the design and management of such programs. It uses Pakistan's post-earthquake Rural Housing Reconstruction Program (RHRP) as a case study, and draws on the experience and lessons from that to derive ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Migrants’ Remittances, Poverty and Social Protection in the South Pacific: Fiji and Tonga
Small island states are increasingly characterised by the growing role of international migration and remittances as components of national and household incomes. Recent household-level survey data on migration and remittances in two Pacific island states, Fiji and Tonga, demonstrate that where formal social protection systems are largely absent, migration and remittances can ...» more
Missed opportunities: the case for strengthening national and local partnership-based humanitarian responses
Partnerships with national and local actors have long been identified as a source of problems in international humanitarian aid. Major evaluations of numerous high profile humanitarian crises have identified insufficient investment in, and commitment to, such partnerships as the biggest hindrance to effective performance. Efforts to work with national and local actors do not ...» more
Towards People-Centred Economic Reintegration? An Analysis of the Economic Reintegration Strategy of Demobilised Combatants in Colombia
This paper investigates the suitability of the economic reintegration strategy for former Colombian combatants, taking into account the challenges facing this population. It argues that the international discourse primarily consists of a market-centred versus a people-centred perspective, each with a distinct approach to economic reintegration. The paper finds that in Colombia ...» more
Glass half full: Study on EU lessons learnt in mediation and dialogue
The EU has developed its capacity and experience in mediation and dialogue over the last 20 years along the lines of the five roles of the EU: as a mediator itself, and in promoting, leveraging, supporting and funding mediation and dialogue. Lessons learnt articulated in this study cut across or reference the five roles and range from Track 1 (the highest political level) to ...» more