Policy papers & reports

Our climate is changing. The increasing unpredictability and extreme weather conditions experienced across the world in recent years – floods in Pakistan, drought in East Africa, unusually heavy snowfall in Ireland and floods in Australia – are consistent with the projections by climate scientists of the advance of global warming.

This report examines the ability of humanitarian agencies to access people in need in countries as diverse as Afghanistan, Colombia and Somalia. It highlights some of the concerns of the humanitarian community and looks at donor practices across the European Union in this regard.

An interesting report that examines the future form of climate action.  Thie paper seeks to  join the dots on climate action, food security and poverty reduction.  It also poses the question: what happened in Cancun and what’s at stake in Durban?

 

Since the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2005, the whole question of aid effectiveness has become a driving force in the overseas development sector.

A position paper from the Catholic HIV and AIDS Network (CHAN)