Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Blog posts & press:

"How Scientists and Refugees Brought Green to the Desert Garden," Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Latest Articles, 20 July 2020 [free full-text]

USAID Has Suspended Aid to 80 Percent of Yemenis: An Appalling Abuse of Humanitarian Principles (Just Security Blog, July 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"1948 to 1951: The Racial Politics of Humanitarianism and Return in Palestine," Oñati Socio-Legal Series (Forthcoming, 2020) [open access]

"Access to Healthcare Services for Afghan Refugees in Iran in COVID-19 Pandemic," Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, vol. 14, no. 4 (Aug. 2020 [open access]

"Does Aid Reduce Anti-refugee Violence? Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Lebanon," American Political Science Review, First View, 30 June 2020 [preprint]

Reports:

Hard Lessons: Delivering Assistance in Government-held Areas of Syria (Norwegian Refugee Council & Oxfam, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

*The Lives and Livelihoods of Syrian Refugees in the Middle East: Evidence from the 2015-16 Surveys of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9327 (World Bank, July 2020) [text]

Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance in Lebanon: Impact Evaluation on the Well-being of Syrian Refugees, Paper presented at the Economic Research Forum 26th Annual Conference, 23 June 2020 [text]

Operational Considerations: COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Middle East and East Africa (Institute of Development Studies, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related background paper.

Somalis and Yemenis of Mixed Origin Stranded and Struggling in Jordan’s Capital (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2020) [text]

Triennial Review of Recommendations from the Programme Evaluation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine, UN Doc. No. E/AC.51/2020/4 (UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, 2020) [access]
- Follow link for report in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

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Related post:
- Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria (2 July 2020)