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Flooding in 2010 affected 18 million people in Pakistan. With declining donor funds and flooding again in 2011 and 2012, the humanitarian community required low-cost solutions that could be scaled up. 

We need to develop refugee settlement planning processes that not only facilitate long-term planning but also allow for incremental upgrading. The case of M’Bera in Mauritania illustrates this. 

Current humanitarian guidelines do not sufficiently cover what shelter means in volatile and protracted conflict settings, particularly outside organised camps. We propose improved tools that will address that gap. 

Supporting locally led protection strategies can significantly improve the impact of protection interventions. 

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In this episode, one of our expert hostage negotiators describes how they calmed an armed criminal trapped in a bank with a hostage. When dealing with incidents of this nature it is critical to reduce the stress of the person that the negotiators are engaging with. These techniqu ... Show More

A number of new initiatives point to ways in which the international community, particularly governments, could help reduce the vulnerabilities of migrant workers during conflict and crisis situations. 

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Patrick and Gillian Woodward look at a project that aims to decrease crime. Could asking prisoners a simple question help others avoid going to prison?https://spotlightenglish.com/education/the-if-project/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our ... Show More

Project managers know that step one of project management is stopping predictable failures from happening... Predictably. Read the transcript here: http://bit.ly/1y8F7BzModern Mentor is hosted by Rachel Cooke. A transcript is available at Simplecast.Have a question for Modern Men ... Show More

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