Fragility and conflict

This document reviews how Nicaragua has recovered from Hurricane Mitch over the past ten years. The focus is on how relevant the assumptions and claims that were made in the initial recovery planning have been in light of subsequent development.

This resource handbook aims to help grassroots organizations monitor governmental security agencies and assesses role that civil society can play in overseeing the security sector in emergency states resulting from natural disasters or health epidemics.

This new book is a collection of writing illustrating the progress made in the area of crisis response and preparedness in action with input from policy experts and practitioners in the field. It builds on the range of views aired at the Commission's

This document presents the results of OCHA's 2008 activities in its mission of mobilizing and coordinating effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to: promote preparedness and prevention

This handbook is designed to give governments and humanitarian workers the tools that they need to address the Education for All and UN Millennium Development Goals. It is the first step toward ensuring that education initiatives in emergency situations

This document explains that "disaster and conflict" is one of the six priority areas of work UNEP has identified. Through the Disasters and Conflicts programme, UNEP provides four core services to Member States: post-crisis environmental assessments, post

This guidebook focuses on ensuring access to quality schooling at primary and secondary levels and is addressed primarily at staff of ministries of education, including national, provincial and district level planners and managers, in countries affected by conflict or natural disasters, or hosting refugees from a neighbouring states. In incorporates conflict prevention and disaster preparedness (though not disaster prevention).

Published as Humanitarian Practice Network Paper Number 57, December, 2006.
This paper presents the case for education as an essential humanitarian intervention, and the INEE Minimum standards as a tool for quality and accountability within those

Clearly, in terms of disasters, the South-East Asia Region has been particularly hard-hit in the recent past. The earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004, which affected more than six countries of this part of the world, was one of the worst natural

This report turns the spotlight on the vulnerable groups, examining how and why they face discrimination. It calls on communities, governments and agencies to work harder to identify the most vulnerable and work together to ensure that their specific