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This publication sets out to offer high-level guidance on how natural resource wealth can be responsibly exploited for the benefit of the nation where it is found, in circumstances where there is...
This focuses on the coordination structure established by UNHCR and Care International for humanitarian response in northwest Syria. It addresses challenges in the conflict-affected region and the...
This Guidance Note has been prepared by Alex Grzybowski of Pacific Resolutions on behalf of the UN Department of Political Affairs, for the Framework Team and in collaboration with the Standing...
The speaker presented an overview of the work undertaken by the Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) and the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Emergency Shelter Working Group including:
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Case study wrote by Philip Hirsch and Khamla Phanvilay that deals with community-based natural resource management and watershed resource conflict in Lao PDR. These crucial points enter in the...
This paper focuses on four questions. First, how does natural resource dependence impede economic and social progress? Second, how does lack of economic and social progress translate into violent...
This Guidance Note focuses on the role of natural resources in triggering, escalating or sustaining violent conflict. Its aim is to provide practical guidance on the role that the UN and EU can...
Two devastating earthquakes hit Nepal in April and May of 2015, affecting Nepal’s growing ducation system. The earthquake and aftershock damage destroyed homes, infrastructure, and schools ...
These guidelines are intended as a multi-sectorial tool for assistance to people affected by conflict and natural disaster, both as displaced individuals and as host communities. Particular...
The problem is that the evidence for how conflict and disasters interrelate is fractured, highly context-specific and poorly understood (see Annex 1 for an assessment of the evidence base). Do...