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A new survey of staffed foundations commissioned by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, "Grantmaking Getting Smarter: A National Study of Philanthropic Practice" (16 pages, PDF), builds on a simi

The January Australian Aid Resource & Training Guide (AARTG) is now ready for download at the TorqAid web site

Center for Global Development presents a brown bag seminar on Lessons from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative for Improving Governance

This Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) working paper explores the linkages between protection and livelihoods for rural populations i

I'll be ending my role as AWN Forum moderator at the end of January.

Hatem Shurrab is an aid worker in Gaza with the British-based charity Islamic Relief Worldwide.

(are any of you working in these geographic areas? if so, please share even a bit about your experiences here on the AWN forum)

Doing a search for something else, I found:

Emergency food security interventions

Are supplementary feeding programmes effective in emergencies?
13 January 2009
Overseas Development Institute
London
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Afghan refugees are using their skills to help their local hosts in the earthquake-hit areas of south-western Pakistan.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a truck used by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) on Mindanao island, leaving one Filipino aid worker dead and dashing any hopes for a Christmas truce.

The family of Margaret Hassan, a murdered British aid worker, is angry because the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office is refusing to sen

DEVELOPMENT FROM DISASTER:
SCALING-UP OWNER-DRIVEN RECONSTRUCTION - INVITATION TO CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP

People with disabilities are of concern for aid, relief and development workers in three ways:

The United Nations said today that it will double the budget of its Afghan mission next year, taking on hundreds of new staff and opening more offices to meet more "complex" challenges.

CNN currently has a small bit in rotation that profiles the work of Pump Aid, which has been working to establish sustainable supplies of clean water and safer sa

Tribesmen kidnapped a German aid worker and her parents in southern Yemen on Monday and were holding them hostage, demanding the government release imprisoned clan members, Yemeni officials and a trib

A Melbourne, Australia aid worker faces up to seven years' jail after being charged with placing butane gas cylinders on board the Navy Sea King helicopter, which crashed in Indonesia in 2005.

Gunmen in Congo have killed an employee of the Voluntary Association for International Service, an Italian non-government organization.