Information about the displacement of people after disasters is crucial in determining the scale and impact of the emergency, and is vital for conducting humanitarian needs assessment on the ground. Methods to forecast or detect such migration are however very limited at present. However, this paper suggests that geo-referenced mobile phone call data could help to forecast ...» 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.
Applied political economy analysis: five practical issues
The last decade has seen an explosion of interest among operational development organisations in more and better ways of understanding the countries and sectors in which they operate. Aware that their efforts have often been compromised by ill-informed or unsophisticated assumptions about country context, agencies from the World Bank to local NGOs have been convinced that what ...» more
The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?
This paper identifies a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. The authors define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar). These people are well above the international poverty line, but still vulnerable ...» more
On the Right Track: A brief review of monitoring and evaluation in the humanitarian sector
Do humanitarian organisations successfully measure the effect of their work, and what defines the extent to which this occurs? If additional efforts are needed to better capture the effect of humanitarian action, what specific gaps should these address?This report addresses these questions, based on a review of all indicators used by member organisations of the Consortium of ...» more
Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008
Social capital can help reduce adverse shocks by facilitating access to transfers and remittances. This study examines how various measures of social capital are associated with disaster recovery after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. It finds that households having a larger Spring Festival network in 2008 do better in housing reconstruction. A larger network significantly ...» more