Moving Up or Out?

Moving Up or Out?

The pastoralists of Shinile Zone in the Somali Region of Ethiopia experience multiple livelihoods challenges and various types of conflict. Among international NGOs in the area, there is increasing interest in better integration of livelihoods and conflict aprograms,...
Baseline Report: Africa Community Resilience Project

Baseline Report: Africa Community Resilience Project

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) programs encompass many different kinds of activities, but share the fundamental objective of enhancing the capacity of vulnerable communities to identify, reduce and manage risk, whether it be at the local, regional or national level....
Politics and Humanitarian Action in the Georgia Conflicts

Politics and Humanitarian Action in the Georgia Conflicts

Drawing upon extensive field research in the region and informed by additional field study dating back to the mid-1990s, the study calls renewed attention to the politicization and instrumentalization of humanitarian action and to serious shortcomings in donor...