Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Consultants, UNHCR [info]
- Evaluation service seeks four positions for "Evaluative Review of UNHCR’s Policies and Procedures on the Prevention and Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA)." The application deadline is 17 June 2018.

CFP: (Re-)Shaping Boundaries in Crisis and Crisis Response, 5th bi-annual IHSA Conference, The Hague, 27-29 August 2018 [info]
- The abstract submission deadline has been *extended* to 30 June 2018.

Publications:

Can the UN's Centre for Humanitarian Data Stand Out? (Devex, May 2018) [text]

Cash Coordination in Humanitarian Response (ICVA, May 2018) [text]

Constructive Deconstruction: Imagining Alternative Humanitarian Action (ODI, May 2018) [access]
- Follow link for outputs from this project. A related podcast is available here. See also related IRIN op-ed.

"Emergency Aid Funding Fell in 2017, Even as Syria/Yemen Wars Drove Needs Higher," IRIN, 15 May 2018 [text]

"The Lies We Tell about Foreign Aid," NPR, 4 June 2018 [text ]

Multi-Purpose Cash and Sectoral Outcomes: A Review of Evidence and Learning  - Executive Summary (UNHCR, May 2018) [text]

"Research Agenda-setting on Cash Programming for Health and Nutrition in Humanitarian Settings," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 3:7 (May 2018) [open access]

Rethinking the Humanitarian Business Model (Center for Global Development, May 2018) [text]

Rules on Sexual Conduct for Humanitarian Workers (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, May 2018) [text]

Seven Steps to Scaling Cash Relief: Driving Outcomes and Efficiency (International Rescue Committee, May 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Toolkit: Responding to Violence against Humanitarian Action on the Policy Level (ATHA, May 2018) [text]

"'We Have Become the Targets': Aid Workers are Caught in a Fast-fragmenting Conflict," IRIN, 31 May 2018 [text]

The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises (Norwegian Refugee Council, June 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (15 May 2018)

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