MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union

MISSING PIECES
Opportunity costs of relief and development programmes
• Perceptions of the value of projects
• Programme implementation impeded
• Lost investment
• Security costs
• Costs for transport if routes are
diverted or air travel is safer
• Cost of monitoring and evaluation
Refugees and IDPs
• Incidence of firearm-related death,
injury and disability among displaced
people
• Armed intimidation and assault
among displaced people
• Numbers of refugees/IDPs
• Child mortality rates among displaced
and relocated populations
• Armed sexual violence against women
reported or observed
• Dependence of displaced populations
on food aid, etc. due to insecure
situation
• Camps regarded as firearm trading
zones
Source: This typology was developed by Cate Buchanan and Mireille Widmer of the Centre for
Humanitarian Dialogue and built upon an initial framework put forward in Small Arms Survey 2002,
p. 159; and Muggah, Robert and Eric Berman (2001), Humanitarianism Under Threat: The Human
Security Impacts of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Small Arms Survey, Geneva, p. 7; plus inputs
from a number of contributors to this publication. It was built upon from an earlier version which
first appeared in Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2004), Putting Guns in Their Place: A resource
pack for two years of action by humanitarian agencies.
ENDNOTES
1 Acknowledgements to Dr. Edward Laurance, from the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
who shared his work on this topic.
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