published July 2007

Contents

Time to reassess capacity-building partnerships
Brooke Lauten


Impact of the tsunami response on local and national capacities
Arjuna Parakrama


Local versus international response: call for humility
Bambang A Sipayung


Duty of care? Local staff and aid worker security
Katherine Haver


Responsibility to Protect: lessons from South Kivu
Jaya Murthy


Multi-dimensional migration challenges in North Africa
Johannes van der Klaauw


Investing for the future: capacity building in Morocco
Mathieu André and France Charlet


Participatory capacity building in action in Colombia
Josep Zapater


Post-war Liberia: healthcare in the balance
Katharine Derderian, Helene Lorinquer and Stéphan Goetghebuer


Building capacity in Sierra Leone
Lina Abirafeh


An African perspective on capacity building
Naomi Pardington and Melanie Coyne


Return of qualified Sudanese
Lindsay T McMahon


Capacity development from the inside out
Anisya Thomas and Desiree Bliss


Bold advocacy finally strengthens refugee protection in Kenya
Eva Ayiera


Who owns and drives capacity building?
Colleen Thouez and Sarah Rosengaertner

General articles

Emergency within an emergency: Somali IDPs
Hassan Noor


CAR: no longer forgotten?
Toby Lanzer and Amanda Weyler


Fighting impunity: legal aid in Darfur
Maarten Barends


Protecting Sudan’s children
Julia Freedson, Simar Singh and Sarah W Spencer

Slow return of displaced Southern Sudanese
Tim Morris


Locking up family values in the US
Michelle Brané


Kafkaesque rebranding of pro-US fighters as terrorists
Benjamin Zawacki


Voices of courage

Colombia test cases strengthen IDP protection
Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Charalampos Efstathopoulos


Internal displacement in eastern Burma
Heather Rae


Enfranchising IDPs in Nepal
Anita Ghimire


Urban asylum seekers and refugees in Thailand
Vera den Otter


State practice and the family unity of African refugees
Esther Sample


Failure to protect: lessons from Kenya’s IDP network
Prisca Kamungi and Jacqueline M Klopp


Bizarre Australia-US refugee swap
David Holdcroft

Olympic scale of sport-induced displacement
Jean du Plessis


Dubai: a City of Hope?
Lina Abirafeh


Opportunity for refugee agencies to be certified
Andrew Lawday


The RAISE Initiative: building RH capacity through collaboration
Diana Barnes-Brown and Janet Butler-McPhee


UNHCR: EU integration of refugees the UNHCR Bureau for Europe

Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement: Improving health and mortality data for IDPs
Robert Lidstone


Norwegian Refugee Council: When 93,000 people know your name
Alfredo Zamudio


IDMC: Continuing displacement in DRC
Greta Zeender


RSC: Internships: rite of passage for students of forced migration?
RSC students


Practising medicine amongst Somalia’s IDPs