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The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is a leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. The Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) at the ODI is an independent forum where field workers, managers and policymakers in the humanitarian sector share information, analysis and experience. HPN Network Papers examine in-depth, specific issues and experiences in the humanitarian field.

Publishers: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Publications: Local to Global Protection in Myanmar (Burma), Sudan, South Sudan and Zimbabwe
System Failure? Revisiting the Problems of Timely Response to Crises in the Horn of Africa
Applying Conflict Sensitivity in Emergency Response
Common Needs Assessments and Humanitarian Action
Safety with Dignity
Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Humanitarian Assistance
Solving the Risk Equation
Food Security and Livelihoods Programming in Conflict
Livelihoods, Livestock and Humanitarian Response: The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards
Measuring the Effectiveness of Supplementary Feeding Programmes in Emergencies
Full of Promise
Public Health in Crisis-affected Populations
Mobile Health Units in Emergency Operations
Contingency Planning and Humanitarian Action
Concerning Accountability of Humanitarian Action
Standards Put to the Test: Implementing the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crisis and Early Reconstruction
The Meaning and Measurement of Acute Malnutrition in Emergencies
Understanding and Addressing Staff Turnover in Humanitarian Agencies
Housing Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Gujarat
Protecting and Assisting Older People in Emergencies
Interpreting and Using Mortality Data in Humanitarian Emergencies
Humanitarian Engagement with Non-state Armed Actors
Cash Relief in a Contested Area
Disaster Preparedness Programmes in India
Community-based Therapeutic Care
Missing the Point: An Analysis of Food Security Interventions in the Great Lakes
Humanitarian Futures: Practical Policy Perspectives
Reproductive Health for Conflict-Affected People
Livelihoods and Protection
Housing Reconstruction After Conflict and Disaster
The Role of Education in Protecting Children in Conflict
Politically Informed Humanitarian Programming: Using a Political Economy Approach
Drought, Livestock and Livelihoods
Reconsidering the Tools of War
HIV/AIDS and Emergencies
A Bridge too Far: Aid Agencies and the Military in Humanitarian Response
Food-Security Assessments in Emergencies: A Livelihoods Approach
Cash Transfers in Emergencies
NGO Responses to Hurricane Mitch
The Political Economy of War: What Relief Agencies Need to Know
Humanitarian Mine Action: The First Decade of a New Sector in Humanitarian Aid
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Well-being
Protection in Practice: Field-Level Strategies for Protecting Civilians from Deliberate Harm
Participatory Review in Chronic Instability
North Korea: The Politics of Food Aid
Between Relief and Development
The Food Economy Approach
Humanitarian Action in Protracted Crises: The New Relief 'Agenda' and Its Limits
Reproductive Health for Displaced Populations
The Coordination of Humanitarian Action: The Case of Sri Lanka
The War Economy in Liberia: A Political Analysis
Promoting Humanitarian Principles: The Southern Sudan Experience
The People in Aid Best Code of Practice in the Management and Support of Aid Personnel
Human Rights and International Legal Standards
Beyond "Working in Conflict": Understanding Conflict and Building Peace
Monetisation: Linkages to Food Security?
The Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda
Cost-effectiveness Analysis
The Impact of War and Atrocity on Civilian Populations
Getting On-Line in Emergencies
Dilemmas of 'Post'-Conflict Transition: Lessons from the Health Sector
Cash-for-Work and Food Insecurity in Koisha, Southern Ethiopia
Room for Improvement: The Management and Support of Relief and Development Workers
Development in Conflict: The Experience of ACORD in Uganda, Sudan, Mali and Angola
Targeting the Poor in Northern Iraq: The Role of Formal and Informal Research Methods in Relief Operations
Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief
The Rwandan Refugee Crisis in Tanzania
Advancing Preventive Diplomacy in a Post-Cold War Era
Bad Borders Make Bad Neighbours
An Account of Relief Operations in Bosnia
Responding to the 1991/92 Drought in Zambia
MSF-CIS (Celula Inter-Secçoes), Mozambique: A Data Collecting System Focused on Food Security and Polulation Movements
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