FMR 20 : published May 2004

Sustainable livelihoods: seeds of sucess?

Contents

Feature articles

Mainstreaming livelihoods support: the Refugee Livelihoods Project By Carrie Conway

Challenges to the effective implementation of microfinance programmes in refugee settings By Jason Phillips

Microcredit: an 'oxygen infusion for a better life' By Merethe Kvernroed

Credit-based livelihood interventions in a Zambian refugee camp By Jane Travis

Microfinance and refugees by Dominik Bartsch

Recapitalising Liberia: principles for providing grants and loans for microenterprise development By John Tucker, Tim Nourse, Rob Gailey, Dave Park and Stephan Bauman

Food aid and livelihoods: challenges and opportunities in complex emergencies By Valerie Guarnieri (WFP)

Livelihoods of former deportees in Ukraine By Greta Uehling

Protection versus promotion of IDP livelihoods in Colombia By Antonio Hill

Marketing refugee skills: an Oxford success story By Rachel Wiggans

Livelihood strategies of urban refugees in Kampala By Michela Macchiavello

Survival to livelihood strategies for Mozambican refugees in South Africa by Frederick Golooba-Mutebi and Stephen M Tollman

The forgotten Palestinians: how Palestinian refugees survive in Egypt By Oroub El Abed

Learning from empowerment of Sri Lankan refugees in India By K C Saha

Livelihood opportunities for Sudanese refugees By Leben Nelson Moro

Skills training for youth By Barry Sesnan, Graham Wood, Marina Lopez Anselme and Ann Avery

General articles

Speaker's Corner: Convention Plus - better protection for refugees? by Manisha Thomas and Ed Schenkenberg van Mierop

The experiences of women in Australian immigration detention centres by Yvette Zurek

Where there is no information: IDP vulnerability assessments in Sri Lanka's borderlands by Danesh Jayatilaka and Robert Muggah

Bridging the national and international response to IDPs by Peter Neussl

The Internal Displacement Unit - OCHA

UNDP's Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery

Age and gender bias in Russia's assistance to forced mgrants? By Larisa Kosygina

Regular features

Update

UNHCR: How can we obtain the information we need about refugees?

Brookings-SAIS Project on Internal Displacement: Promoting national responsibility for internal displacement in the Americas

NRC: Youth Education Pack - an investment in the future

Global IDP Project: Global Overview

Refugee Studies Centre: Voices of conflict

Publications

Endnote: Dark Dreams