This policy brief explores the importance of land issues in forced displacement in Kenya, drawing out their implications for current humanitarian and early recovery interventions in the wake of the violence and displacement that followed the 2007 elections. Key messages nclude:
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2008Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2007
This document discusses the challenges and dilemmas in multi-stakeholder partnering work, particularly the development and use of metrics to measure progress. It is aimed particularly at partner organisations, and individuals hired to aid in the facilitation, monitoring or management of partnerships as independent, ‘external’, third-parties.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJune, 2007Rwanda
This background briefing reports on a study of land access
for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access
policies in the post-conflict period. It also seeks to
understand better the roles international humanitarian
agencies and NGOs have played, and how their performance
can be improved. It is not suggested that Rwanda is typical,
but rather that the centrality of land issues there has thrown
up a revealing set of broader questions. -
Library ResourceJune, 2007Rwanda
This background briefing reports on a study of land access for returnees in Rwanda, and the impacts of land access policies in the post-conflict period. It also seeks to understand better the roles international humanitarian agencies and NGOs have played, and how their performance can be improved. It is not suggested that Rwanda is typical, but rather that the centrality of land issues there has thrown up a revealing set of broader questions.
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HPG Working Paper, June 2007
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2007AfricaThis report is part of a broader comparative effort by the Overseas Development Institute’s Humanitarian Policy Group on Land Tenure in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations, which aims to inform and improve the policy and practice of humanitarian action and to inform related areas of international policy. It seeks to understand how land issues affect and are affected by violence and conflict resolution, what responses are appropriate and what lessons can be learned from specific contexts of land tenure interventions, both during and after conflict.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2007Global
This brief considers progress made in understanding gender and development between the 1982 and the 2008 World Development Report. The authors acknowledge achievements in valuing women's dynamic roles in agricultural productivity and development in general, but also point to areas in which the most recent report fall short, including an acknowledgement of the lack of policy recommendations for deeper social and structural inequalities.
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