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Book SynopsisThis text examines the emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the world. The contributors are all professionals who are involved in helping adults and children rebuild their lives after witnessing the destruction of their families and communities. Based on their own experience of working internationally, this book presents an analysis of present, misconceived attempts to give help, but also an agenda for future, more appropriate ways of responding to those affected by wars and conflicts.

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Book SynopsisThis text examines the emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the world. The contributors are all professionals who are involved in helping adults and children rebuild their lives after witnessing the destruction of their families and communities. Based on their own experience of working internationally, this book presents an analysis of present, misconceived attempts to give help, but also an agenda for future, more appropriate ways of responding to those affected by wars and conflicts.

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Book SynopsisCivil wars, genocides, natural disasters and other emergencies multiplied in the 1990s, and not just in the South, but in the Balkans and the former Soviet bloc. This book examines how to respond to the fundamental difficulties thrown up by these humanitarian crises. What kind of aid, in particular, should be brought in when the situation on the ground mixes up emergency relief with the longer-term process of development? The book includes many different voices and embodies an open-ended debate about the whole diverse process of international aid. The experiences and lessons it contains are relevant to all those playing a part in, or wishing to understand, the practice and dilemmas of humanitarian aid in the 1990s.Trade Review'The intention and many of the truisms in this book are to be welcomed alongside the brevity and pragmatism of many of its contributions.' - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis ManagementTable of Contents Foreword Luc Paunier, President, Geneva Foundation Introduction: Francois Grunewald, President, Groupe URD Part 1. Towards a New Analysis of Crises Compiled by Bernard Husson and Claire Pirotte 1. Observations on Crises Bernard Husson, Andre Marty and Claire Pirotte 2. Box: Development is Not Peace Francois Grunewald 3. The Pattern of Conflicts since 1945 Jean-Christophe Ruffin 4. Development in the Face of Crisis Christian Fusillier 5. The Crisis of International Aid Mark Duffield 6. Who Determines the Objectives? Pascal Vincent 7. A Better Understanding of the Economic Impact of War Francois Grunewald 8. Humanitarian Aid cannot be Reduced to ?Trucking? Jean-Baptiste Richardier 9. The Humanitarian Impasse Pierre Laurent 10. Keeping Sight of Our Intentions An interview with Philippe Biberson by Claire Pirotte Part 2: Combining Skills Compiled by Bruno Rebelle 11. Box: Rehabilitation of North Mali: Variations and Constants since the 1970s Andre Marty 12. Box: Remaining Operational during Crises ACORD 13. Box: Rehabilitation in Cambodia: Uncertain Beginnings Herve Bernard 14. Box: BOKEO: When the Schedule becomes a Constraint Francois Grunewald 15. Box: From Emergency Budgets to Development Funding: The Assessment of a Difficult Transition Claude Simonot 16. Box: And What if the Problem were on our side? Genevieve Guillou 17. Box: Complex Reconstruction in Bosnia Richard Pinder 18. Political Constraints Pierre Laurent 19. Box: Constraints, Strategies and Policies ACORD Part 3. Towards a New Conception of Outside Intervention in Crisis Situations Compiled by Francois Grunewald and Marc Rodriguez 20. Renewing the Modalities of Intervention in Crisis Situations Francois Grunewald 22. Strengthening Survival Strategies, the Key to Intervention Francois Grunewald 23. The Necessity and Specificity of a Follow-up Monitoring during a Crisis Francois Grunewald 24. Box: Follow-up Monitoring ACORD 25. Partnership: An Operational Attitude and a Philosophy Francoise Grunewald and Marc Rodriquez 26. The Choice of Partners: The Naive and the Ideologists Need Not Apply Francois Grunewald 27. Box: A Project based on Partnership in an Emergency Situation: Eastern Kasai, Zaire Marc Rodriguez and Claire Pirotte 28. Box: Partnership and Cholera Philippe Le Borgne and Valerie Belchior-Bellino 29. Box: Finding the Right Partner: The Same Problem for Northern and Southern NGOs Elyane Comaty-Mitri and Berengere Cornet-Vernay 30. Box: The ICRC and the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies: A Very Special Relationship Carlo von Flue 31. Strengthening the Actors, or Helping Them to Strengthen Themselves 32. Social Differentiation between Men and Women in Humanitarian Interventions Judy El Bushra 33. Box: The Specific Problems of Unaccompanied Women in Displaced Persons or Refugee Camps Interview with Annette Correze by Claire Pirotte 34. Box: Finding the Last Anti-Personnel Mine: An Emergency for Long-term Development Bill Howell 35. Using the Money in CRisis Situations Francois Grunewald 36. Box: Emergency Aid for Income Generation ACORD 37. Box: Economic Solutions: A Difficult Concept for Some Emergency Operators Marc Rodriguez Part 4: Open Debates 38. Box: On Trends and Their Effects Francois Grunewald 39. Different Aspects of Crisis Prevention Bernard Husson, Andre Marty and Claire Pirotte 40. Better Utilization of Early Warning Systems Francois Grunewald 41. Box: Burundi: When Material Aid is Not Enough Jean-Eudes Beuret 42. Ethics and Deontology 43. Humanitarian Assistance Is a Right Pierre Laurent 44. Assistance and Protection: Implementing International Humanitarian Law An interview with Carlos von Flue by Claire Pirotte 45. Neutrality and Impartiality: Fundamental Rights Carlos von Flue 46. Neutrality and Impartiality Judy El Bushra 47. Box: The Rwandan Crisis: Impartiality, Reconciliation and Justice ACORD 48. Box: Dealing with Inconsistencies Yannick Lassica 49. The Relations of NGOs with Public Authorities and Guerilla Movements during Transition Phases 50. Relations with Public Authorities concerning Afghanistan Philippe Truze 51. Box: Peru: Working in Areas Controlled by the Shining Path Jean-Jacques Boutrou 52. Contributing to the Management of a Transition Period Between Conflicts and Prospects of Decentralisation in North Mali Andre Marty 53. Building New Dynamics: The Example of North Mali Bernard Husson 54. Relations between Humanitarians and the Military Philippe Truze 55. What Role for the Military in Rehabilitation? Veronique de Geoffroy Annexes 1. An Analysis of Food Situations in a Crisis Context: East Kasai, Zaire Marc Rodriguez 2. The European Union and Support for Rehabilitation Xavier Ortega and Sylvie Mantrant 3. A History of the Partnership between the ICRC and the National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent Carlo von Flue 4. The Fundamental Principles of the In

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Book SynopsisDo any of these monitoring and evaluation issues sound familiar? It feels like your monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has to demonstrate that your project is perfect. Your funder demands M&E data that''s too cumbersome to collect. M&E feels more like an impediment than a resource to your work. Your M&E doesn''t really touch on poverty alleviation, but only with project outputs. You have spent more time designing your monitoring system than you do using it. If you grapple with these questions, you''re not alone. Development practitioners worldwide are trying to deal with similar problems - and they are finding ways of doing so. ""Rethinking M&E - Challenges and Prospects in the Changing Global Aid Environment"" incorporates the good examples and innovative M&E solutions of 120 development professionals from an enormous range of countries, circumstances and specialisms.""Rethinking M&E"" is based on Intraca''s Sixth Evaluation Conference and regional M&E workshops in Ghana, India, Sweden and Peru, and includes perspectives from both NGOs and CSOs, donor ministries, activists, think-tanks and foundations.Emphasising Southern perspectives and covering a rich variety of experiences, it stresses the important role of M&E in challenging many of our assumptions about poverty alleviation. ""Rethinking M&E"" both analyzes practitioner issues and situates them within wider aid trends. It takes as its premise the observation that official development aid is shifting towards an increasingly technocratic, managerial, state-centered approach.It follows that M&E within the aid chain worldwide is directed away from its focus on qualitative outcomes and long-term poverty alleviation impacts. Within this context, ""Rethinking M&E"" provides innovative insights into such areas as M&E of NGOs as donors, the M&E of advocacy and the M&E of humanitarian emergencies. Wherever you find yourself in the world of development M&E, this book will present useful experiences from others in similar situations. It shows that there is momentum and energy going into making M&E work for learning, empowerment and poverty eradication.

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Book SynopsisThis book uses case studies from around the world which show a clear framework for understanding the nature and role of civil society, prove that civil society is alive and kicking, and makes recommendations for more effective civil society strengthening.Vibrant examples of action by indigenous groups, advocacy journalism, and transnational southern campaigning alliances are all explored, illustrating a framework for understanding civil society based on the functions it fulfils:Generating the social basis for democracyPromoting political accountabilityProducing social trust, reciprocity and networksCreating and promoting alternatives, andSupporting the rights of citizens and the concept of citizenship.The cases remind us of the vital need for an independent, diverse and strong civil society. The battle to reduce poverty will not be won without developing a supportive civil society which can act to demand rights, transparency and good governance from the state, counterbalance elite controls of the economy and polity, and build a culture of cooperation, trust and accountability from below.This book makes strong recommendations to help us build towards diverse and sustainable civil societies, including: an emphasis on building networks and coalitions across civil society associations of different shapes and sizes; placing a high value on membership-based groups; a focus on the enabling environment, and long-term, holistic capacity building. We are encouraged to once again let civil society shape our development agendas.This book is intended for NGOs, think tanks, multilateral and bilateral donors; all those engaged in supporting civil society, or running wider programmes where it is important to take civil society into account.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides insights into the education and schooling of Syrian and Palestinian Syrian children inside and outside Lebanese refugee camps. It describes what is happening to these children and young refugees in terms of their schooling. Investigating the perspectives of children, their parents, teachers, community leaders, and state politicians and bureaucrats on the schooling provisions and educational opportunities for refugee children in Lebanon, this book reveals the condition of social disadvantage that Syrian and Syrian Palestinian refugee children and their families are experiencing in Lebanon. Maadad and Rodwell propose the idea of the pedagogy of the displaced that recognises socio-economic disadvantage and refocuses the nature of the learner and their learning and the philosophy of teaching. A collaborative action of society – the refugee families, the schools, the communities, the host state, the international aid agencies and the rest of the world – in addressing the barriers to education and schooling of the refugee children must break ground and be sustained.Table of ContentsGeopolitics, Middle East Conflicts, Communities – Refugees and Children – Refugees in Lebanon: The Context – The Provision of Schooling and Challenges for Education for Refugees Inside and Outside Camps in Lebanon – Children’s Experiences – Parents’ Concerns Regarding Schooling – Teachers’ Perspectives and Challenges – Community Concerns and Responses – The State and Policy Support.

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Book SynopsisToday, 426 million children are growing up in war zones. Since 1919 Save the Children has been protecting and promoting the well-being of children in more than 110 countries. For its 100th anniversary, this global, large and independent children's rights organisation is teaming with the Swiss photojournalist Dominik Nahr to present the stories of 10 children and a 'baby of hope', all of whom survived the wars of the past century. This touching illustrated volume tells of their fates, of everyday life in war, of escape and persecution, but also how they found hope and their own paths, despite the adversity they faced. Guest authors: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Ingo Zamperoni, Jon Swain, Anne Watts, Margrethe Vestager, Ban Ki-moon, Professor Wole Soyinka, Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen, Ulrike C. Tscharre, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Dr. Gerd Müller

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Book SynopsisDisaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief packages regardless of the location, and a lack of effort taken to match volunteers' skills with tasks, just how effective are we at helping others?Many people want to do good, but they like to do it at their convenience. These attempts at helping often fail, and the blame invariably falls on the disaster victims, rather than looking at the suitability of aid provided. Such help, offered without a thorough understanding of the context or the impact of actions, can create situations that leave the victims worse off than before.So how can we create real sustainable impact?Most communities have a lot of unused human capacity. When offering help, many aid providers fail to engage the local communities, thus excluding a critical group of people with the knowledge of local ways and needs.This book elaborates on a simple principle essential to effective aid — Never Help: Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect.It is important that we fully understand the problem before we try to solve it, and who better to help us with solutions than the local community?

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Book SynopsisDisaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and social media relay the information to all corners of the globe in real-time, mobilising hundreds of people and organisations to aid. Yet, with standard relief packages regardless of the location, and a lack of effort taken to match volunteers' skills with tasks, just how effective are we at helping others?Many people want to do good, but they like to do it at their convenience. These attempts at helping often fail, and the blame invariably falls on the disaster victims, rather than looking at the suitability of aid provided. Such help, offered without a thorough understanding of the context or the impact of actions, can create situations that leave the victims worse off than before.So how can we create real sustainable impact?Most communities have a lot of unused human capacity. When offering help, many aid providers fail to engage the local communities, thus excluding a critical group of people with the knowledge of local ways and needs.This book elaborates on a simple principle essential to effective aid — Never Help: Engage, Enable, Empower and Connect.It is important that we fully understand the problem before we try to solve it, and who better to help us with solutions than the local community?

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