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Dfid Asistance To Burmese Internally Displaced People And Refugees On The Thai Burma Border
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Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215035493 Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (354 download)
Book Synopsis DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma suffers both from immense poverty and human rights abuses but it receives the lowest aid of all Least Developed Countries. The Committee believe that the international community must find a way to increase funding to the growing number of vulnerable people, especially those who have been forcibly displaced. As one of only four donors with staffed offices in Burma, DFID is in a lead position to help these people. Although it has quadrupled its Burma budget over the last six years, the Committee think that this should be scaled up and include specific funding for cross-border assistance. DFID's plan to relocate the management of its programme from Bangkok to Rangoon is criticised because it is thought that, to fully and independently engage with cross border assistance, a presence is needed in Thailand.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215035547 Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (355 download)
Book Synopsis DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID asistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma border written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DFID assistance to Burmese internally displaced people and refugees on the Thai-Burma Border : Tenth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Author :Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. International Development Committee Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780215036858 Total Pages :21 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (368 download)
Book Synopsis DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border by : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID Assistance to Burmese Internally Displaced People and Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border written by Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma suffers both from immense poverty and human rights abuses but it receives the lowest aid of all Least Developed Countries. This document sets out the Government's reply to the recommendations of the Committee's report (HCP 645-I, session 2006-07; ISBN 9780215035493) on UK assistance to Burma, together with responses from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and from Christian Aid.
Author :Premjai Vungsiriphisal Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :3319027956 Total Pages :245 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (19 download)
Book Synopsis Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Persons from Myanmar by : Premjai Vungsiriphisal
Download or read book Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Persons from Myanmar written by Premjai Vungsiriphisal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This volume examines the protracted refugee situation at the Thai–Myanmar border. Displaced persons are kept in closed settlements, and this has limited their self-reliance. A resettlement program has been implemented and many refugees have been accepted in resettlement countries. Repatriation is not recommended as a durable solution unless Myanmar becomes a safe place for return. Funding and intervention policies of international organizations and NGOs vary. Donors prefer to switch humanitarian assistance to development aid. The book provides realistic policy recommendations for a durable solution for refugees at the borders. Practitioners and policymakers from governments, international organizations and NGOs will benefit from its findings. The volume is also helpful for anyone studying forced migration and its denouement in the globalized age.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Aid to Burma by : Anne Decobert
Download or read book The Politics of Aid to Burma written by Anne Decobert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more remote and disputed border areas typically had little to no access to even basic healthcare and education services. As part of its counter-insurgency campaign, the military state also historically restricted international humanitarian access to civilian populations in unstable border areas. It was in this context that "cross-border aid" to Burma had developed, as an alternative mechanism for channelling assistance to populations denied aid through more conventional systems. Yet by the late 2000s, national and international changes had significant impacts on an aid debate, which had important political and ethical implications. Through an ethnographic study of a cross-border aid organisation working on the Thailand-Burma border, this book focuses on the political and ethical dilemmas of "humanitarian government". It explores the ways in which aid systems come to be defined as legitimate or illegitimate, humanitarian or "un-humanitarian", in an international context that has witnessed the multiplication of often-conflicting humanitarian systems and models. It examines how an "embodied history" of violence can shape the worldviews and actions of local humanitarian actors, as well as institutions created to mitigate human suffering. It goes on to look at the complex and often-invisible webs of local organisations, international NGOs, donors, armed groups and other actors, which can develop in a cross-border and extra-legal context – a context where competing constructions of systems as legitimate or illegitimate are highlighted. Exploring the history of humanitarianism from the local aid perspective of Burma, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian Studies, Anthropology of Humanitarian Aid and Development Studies.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215038340 Total Pages :32 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (383 download)
Book Synopsis Work of the Committee in 2007 by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book Work of the Committee in 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work of the Committee In 2007 : Third report of session 2007-08, report, together with formal Minutes
Book Synopsis Crimes in Archival Form by : Prof. Dr. Ken MacLean
Download or read book Crimes in Archival Form written by Prof. Dr. Ken MacLean and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crimes in Archival Form explores the many ways in which human rights "facts" are produced rather than found. Using Myanmar as his case study, Ken MacLean examines the fact-finding practices of a human rights group, two cross-border humanitarian agencies, an international law clinic, and a global NGO-led campaign. Foregrounding fact-finding, in critical yet constructive ways, prompts long overdue conversations about the possibilities and limits of human rights documentation as a mode of truth-seeking. Such conversations are particularly urgent in an era when the perpetrators of large-scale human rights violations exploit misinformation, weaponize disinformation, and employ outright falsehoods, including deepfakes, to undermine the credibility of those who document abuses and demand accountability in the court of public opinion and in courts of law. MacLean compels practitioners and scholars alike to be more transparent about how human rights "fact" production works, why it is important, and when its use should prompt concern.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215545091 Total Pages :92 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (45 download)
Book Synopsis Draft International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book Draft International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 the UN General Assembly called on the economically advanced countries to provide 0.7% of their income as Official Development Assistance (ODA) by the middle of the decade. In 2004 the UK committed to meet the target by 2013. The Government proposes to enshrine in law its commitment to meet the target in 2010 and each subsequent year. Whilst the legislation is widely welcomed the Committee remains uncertain that it will have the wider impact claimed. The accountability measures contained in the draft Bill weaken the commitment and provide the Government with an easy excuse for not meeting the target. The 2002 International Development Act stipulates that DFID's expenditure on ODA should have poverty reduction as its primary objective. With increasing pressure to find additional finance for responding to climate change or to new types of security threats, there is a danger that increased amounts of UK ODA will be used for purposes only marginally related to poverty reduction. The Government must take appropriate steps to guard against this whether or not the Bill becomes law. Ultimately the Committee supports the 0.7% goal and feels the UK should maintain and build on its reputation as a donor.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215521873 Total Pages :68 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (218 download)
Book Synopsis Working Together to Make Aid More Effective by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Download or read book Working Together to Make Aid More Effective written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working together to make aid more Effective : Ninth report of session 2007-08, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal Minutes
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215544346 Total Pages :70 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (443 download)
Book Synopsis DFID's programme in Bangladesh by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID's programme in Bangladesh written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report finds that Bangladesh has reduced poverty levels from 57 per cent at the beginning of the 1990s to 40 per cent in 2005 but much more needs to be done to help the country's poorest people. Despite a steadily growing economy, Bangladesh's potential to achieve more widespread poverty reduction is held back by its poor record on governance and high levels of corruption. Successive governments have failed to respond to the needs of poor and marginalised communities and instead state power has too often been used for personal and partisan ends. Bangladesh is the fourth highest recipient of UK bilateral assistance. DFID's programme there in the current financial year is worth £125 million and will rise to £150 million in 2010-11. The report praises the innovative non-governmental organisations (NGO) community in Bangladesh which plays an important role in delivering basic services in areas where state provision is limited. Gender inequality continues to be a significant problem in Bangladesh: an increase in the number of girls attending primary school contrasts with insufficient progress in tackling maternal mortality and women remain marginalised and excluded from key decision-making processes. Bangladesh is likely to be adversely affected by climate change and the poorest people will be hardest hit. The report adds large parts of the country are low-lying and susceptible to more frequent and intense floods and cyclones. Bangladesh will need assistance to cope with the effects of rises in sea levels and increased salinisation.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215544582 Total Pages :70 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (445 download)
Book Synopsis DFID's performance in 2008-09 and the 2009 White Paper by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID's performance in 2008-09 and the 2009 White Paper written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DFID is right to focus more resources on fragile states if global poverty reduction goals are to be met. However, this report highlights a number of concerns about DFID's capacity to meet this and other new policy directions set out in the 2009 White Paper (Cm. 7656, ISBN 9780101765626), based on analysis of the Department's performance in 2008-09 (the Department's annual report 2008-09 published as HC 867-I,II, ISBN 9780102962154). Climate change, another key White Paper focus area, threatens progress on poverty reduction and will hit the poorest people first and hardest. The outcome of the Copenhagen Conference in December 2009 was disappointing and real progress needs to be made before the next conference at the end of this year. The White Paper also indicates that DFID will channel more funding through multilateral organisations including the EU, the UN and the World Bank. This offers the prospect of more coordinated delivery of aid, but only if these bodies increase their effectiveness and their poverty focus. The report also argues for speedier reform of the governance of the international financial institutions. The recession has had a significant impact on developing countries. It is estimated that an additional 90 million people will be affected by poverty as a combined result of the global food, financial and fuel crises over the last few years. Donors, including the UK, have responded and have sought to identify specific needs in developing countries, though many donors are failing to meet the aid commitments they have already made.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215513984 Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (139 download)
Book Synopsis DFID and the World Bank by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID and the World Bank written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is a major provider of development funding, analysis and advice. The Bank is not perfect, however, and the context in which it operates continues to change. As a major shareholder and contributor to the World Bank, the UK has a distinct leadership role. The UK should articulate and pursue a vision for reform of the Bank. The Department for International Development's (DFID) and the Bank both have core objectives of poverty reduction. There is an increased responsibility on DFID to ensure that the Bank is organisationally effective and achieving a level of development impact that justifies the UK contributions. More consistent and transparent use of impact assessments by the World Bank across all of its lending is the single most important change in Bank practice that DFID should be pursuing. There should be more representation of developing countries in World Bank decision-making. Selection of the President of the World Bank, should be transparent and on merit, rather than in the gift of the United States. Other recommendations cover: women's empowerment; DFID staffing in relation to the Bank; and climate change. This last is an acute challenge for developing countries. As a development leader, the Bank should use its substantial resources and leverage to support viable renewable energy sources. But the urgency of climate change does not lessen the blight of poverty and the Bank's primary focus must remain on poverty reduction and development.
Author :Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215530509 Total Pages :72 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Aid under pressure by : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Download or read book Aid under pressure written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current economic crisis, poor countries are experiencing significantly reduced income from trade, remittances and foreign investment. As a result, an additional 90 million people are expected to be living in poverty by the end of 2010, and 400,000 more children are likely to die. Progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of eradicating hunger and extreme poverty has been set back three years. At the G20 summit in London in April, agreement was reached to provide billions of dollars of additional resources for the international financial institutions (IFIs), with the majority going to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This will provide a much needed boost for balance of payments support, yet it remains unclear how much of the funding will benefit developing countries. The huge increase in resources for the IFIs needs to be matched by governance reforms and developing countries need to be given a stronger voice on the boards and in the decision-making processes of the multilateral institutions. The recession should not be used as an excuse to reduce aid flows but developing countries must also be assisted to derive the maximum benefit from their own resources. They lose billions of dollars each year to tax evasion by international companies. The UK has a clear responsibility to address enforcement of international tax standards in relation to those British Overseas Territories which are tax havens. More effort is needed towards securing an agreement in the pro-development Doha round of World Trade Organisation negotiations. Finally, DFID must do more to show the public the many and varied positive outcomes of its work in poor countries.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215523174 Total Pages :48 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (231 download)
Book Synopsis The Humanitarian and Development Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Download or read book The Humanitarian and Development Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 11th report from the International Development Committee (HCP 522-I, session 2007-08, ISBN 9780215523174), and focuses on the humanitarian and development situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. The Committee has set out 20 conclusions and recommendations covering the following areas: the security situation; the responsibility to ensure humanitarian access; Hamas' responsibilities; a humanitarian access cell; the Palestinian reform and development plan; the importance of improving movement and access; expanding settlements and the construction of the Barrier; the EU-Israel Association Agreement; EU funding mechanisms; the work of the Quartet Representative; improving Palestinian security; involving all parties; the Egyptian-brokered truce. For Volume 2, Evidence (see ISBN 9780215523198).
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215522108 Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (221 download)
Book Synopsis The World Food Programme and Global Food Security by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Download or read book The World Food Programme and Global Food Security written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger and malnutrition are long-term problems facing the world. Recent food price rises have greatly exacerbated the difficulties poor people face in accessing nourishing food and have dragged up to 100 million people back into poverty. The World Food Programme's (WFP) 'pipeline' of emergency food has never been more important. WFP does crucial work at the frontline of humanitarian emergencies and in building the resilience of communities to deal with long-term hunger. Up to 20 million tonnes of food may be needed to feed new groups of people being pushed into poverty by food price rises. Significant increases to the WFP's budget are likely to be needed in order to secure this additional food supply. The usual annual total of US$3 billion in voluntary contributions may need to double to US$5-6 billion. Malnutrition is responsible for one-third of child deaths, yet it is under-funded and under-emphasised by the international community and the UN system. The Committee is shocked that DFID lacks a specific nutrition policy and measurable targets for assessing progress in reducing malnutrition. The establishment of the UN Taskforce and its Comprehensive Framework for Action on food security are positive steps. Agencies such as DFID and the WFP must look beyond the current crisis and address long-term drivers of food security. DFID should re-focus on agriculture. Reforms to the UN system are another important factor in improving future responses to food insecurity. There is scope for far greater integration of the work done by the three Rome-based UN agencies. Identifying the WFP as the lead UN agency on hunger would contribute to a more coherent international approach.
Author :Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee Publisher :The Stationery Office ISBN 13 :9780215526472 Total Pages :56 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (264 download)
Book Synopsis DFID Annual Report 2008 by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Download or read book DFID Annual Report 2008 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department for International Development's (DFID) objectives continue to focus on achievement of the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals with the overarching aim of poverty reduction. This focus remains valid. However, on current trends most of the Goals will not be met by the 2015 deadline. The prospects for achieving Millennium Development Goal 2 on universal primary education by 2015 concern the Committee. To meet the target of all children completing primary education by 2015, universal access to schooling will need to be in place by 2010. The necessary schools will therefore have to be built and teachers trained in less than two years. The global economic downturn may exacerbate the risk of failure if development assistance levels are not maintained and donor commitments on aid are allowed to lapse. In straitened economic circumstances it is vital that every pound spent achieves the maximum impact, not least so that public support for aid expenditure can be maintained. The Committee is not convinced that DFID's evaluation processes allow it to make an accurate assessment of what its funding is achieving. The Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact has begun to improve evaluation within DFID. This process must continue with the full engagement of the Department. DFID's ability to deliver its objectives is beginning to be constrained, despite its rising budget, by the Government-wide requirement to reduce its administrative budget and therefore the number of staff it employs. The Government should urgently reassess whether DFID has sufficient staff in place effectively to deliver the objectives which it has assigned to the Department under its Public Service Agreements.
Book Synopsis Resettlement of Displaced Persons on the Thai-Myanmar Border by : Benjamin Harkins
Download or read book Resettlement of Displaced Persons on the Thai-Myanmar Border written by Benjamin Harkins and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The camps on the Thai–Myanmar border are the result of the world’s largest resettlement program. However, despite large-scale financial and human resource engagement, little research exists on how successful this resettlement has been. This book provides the first insight on how realistic the policy recommendations are for a durable solution for refugees at the borders. Practitioners and policymakers from governments, international organizations and NGOs will benefit from its findings. The volume is also helpful for anyone studying forced migration and its denouement in the age of globalization.
