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The GSDRC provides cutting-edge knowledge services on demand and online. It aims to help reduce poverty by informing policy and practice in relation to governance, conflict and social development. The GSDRC is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID).

The following collection of articles focus on U.S. joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational (JIIM) activities, challenges, issues, and operations in the six U.S. geographic combatant commands (GCCs

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The 2011 Annual Report of the ICRCr is an account of field activities conducted out of 80 delegations worldwide. The activities are part of the organization's mandate to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and to promote respect for international humanitarian law. The ICRC's Annual Report 2011 describes the harm that armed conflicts inflict on populations around the world, and what the organization is doing to protect and assist them

The first State of the Humanitarian System report is an ambitious snapshot of the entire humanitarian system. It outlines what's working, what's not, and how the sector has been performing in 2009-2010. The 'international humanitarian system' is defined here as the network of national and international provider agencies, donors and host-government authorities that are functionally connected to each other in the humanitarian endeavour and that share common overarching goals, norms and principles. The system also includes actors that do not have humanitarian assistance as their central mission but play important humanitarian roles, such as military and private-sector entities.

This training course is in response to the report, Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations, released by UNEP. The report analyses how peacekeeping missions around the world affect, and are affected by natural resources and the broader environment, and notes that through the adoption of a 2009 Environmental Policy, UN Peacekeeping has a robust platform for progress in reducing its environmental impact

This paper identifies lessons emerging from humanitarian interventions in violent urban settings. It is operationally oriented and intended primarily for field staff involved in programme design and evaluation. Lessons are drawn from case studies and evaluations of humanitarian organisations and agencies operating in such settings.