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Humanitarian Coordination

Humanitarian Coordination - A vital component of humanitarian action is the coordination among all actors involved in the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Coordination within this field allows for the most efficient, cost effective, and successful operations possible.

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Humanitarian Quality and Accountability Initiatives

In recent years the humanitarian community has initiated a series of inter-agency initiatives in order to improve accountability and quality performance in humanitarian action. The most known to date initiatives are the Active Learning Network forAccountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project.

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Security Management

Humanitarian organizations operate in increasingly hostile environments. Although authoritative statistics are scarce, anecdotal evidence suggests that aid workers face life-threatening risks that are exacerbated by the growing number of humanitarian organizations operating in the field with varying mandates, without common professional security standards and with limited success with inter-agency security coordination.

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International Law

Public International Law concerns the relationships between independent, sovereign states. It also regulates the functioning of international organizations and how they relate to each other, to states and to individuals. International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL) are the main specialized legal frameworks that pertain directly to humanitarian actors and their activities.

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Civil Military Relations

Interaction between civilian and military actors in complex political emergencies (CPE) continues to warrant close examination, as the scope and implications of these relationships are significantly impacting contemporary humanitarian operations. Acknowledging that such involvement between military and humanitarian bodies has been widely questioned and critiqued, this paper takes no position as to the ideal nature of the relationship; it adopts as its base for discussion situations in which the relationship is already in place.

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Protection of Internally Displaced Persons

Internally displaced persons are "persons or groups of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalised violence, violations of human rights or natural or human-made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognised State border." (Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, Introduction, para. 2)

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Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD)

The GHD initiative provides a forum for donors to discuss good practice in Humanitarian Financing and other shared concerns. By defining principles and standards it provides both a framework to guide official humanitarian aid and a mechanism for encouraging greater donor accountability.

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