Online Humanitarian Training Courses, Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs [info]
- Four courses are on offer, all running from 26 August-18 December 2020: Mental Health in Complex Emergencies; Leadership and Management of a Humanitarian Response; Humanitarian Advocacy: Communicating the Need and Motivating the Response; and Forced Migration: The Humanitarian Challenge of the Decade. No registration deadlines indicated.
Blog posts & press:
All Eyes are on Local Humanitarian Responders during Covid-19 – Now They Need Support (ODI Blog, May 2020) [text]
COVID-19 Humanitarian: A New Platform Bringing New and Best Practice to Humanitarian Actors (CERAH, April 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related update on Phase 2 of the platform's development.
"Médecins Sans Frontières Needs 'Radical Change' on Racism: MSF President," The New Humanitarian, 24 June 2020 [text]
More humanitarian-related blog posts can be found in IHSA's weekly round-up.
Reports & journal articles:
The Cost of Living: COVID-19 Humanitarian Cash Transfers to Prevent Hunger and Hardship (International Rescue Committee, June 2020) [text]
"Engineering and Humanitarian Intervention: Learning from Failure," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 5:7 (June 2020) [open access]
From the Ground Up: It’s about Time for Local Humanitarian Action (ODI, May 2020) [text]
Grand Bargain Annual Independent Report 2020 (ODI, June 2020) [access]
- Follow link for executive summary, full report, infographic and briefing note.
Grand Bargain Localisation Workstream (May 2020)
- Five guidance notes were prepared on: gender-responsive localisation; arrangements between donors and intermediaries; participation of local actors in humanitarian coordination groups; humanitarian financing for local actors; and partnership practices for localisation.
"Introducing Care Ethics into Humanitarianism: Comment on 'A Crisis of Humanitarianism: Refugees at the Gates of Europe'," Journal of Health Policy and Management, vol. 8, no. 6 (June 2019) [open access]
"Network Analysis as a Tool for Humanitarian Protection: Research and Practice," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 5:7 (June 2020) [open access]
Practical Guidance for Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Migrants, and Host Communities Particularly Vulnerable to COVID-19 Pandemic (IFRC et al., June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
"Safer Cash in Conflict: Exploring Protection Risks and Barriers in Cash Programming for Internally Displaced Persons in Cameroon and Afghanistan," International Review of the Red Cross, no. 911 (June 2020) [full-text]
A WIN-WIN: Multi-year flexible Funding is Better for People and Better Value for Donors (International Rescue Committee, June 2020) [text]
Multimedia:
How to be Antiracist in Aid: A Conversation about Racism in the Aid Sector, 16 June 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.
When the West Falls into Crisis: Rethinking Humanitarianism in the Midst of Black Lives Matter and COVID-19, 18 June 2020 [access]
- Follow link for the video recording, takeaways from the discussion, and reader reactions.
Related posts:
- Round-up: Racism in the Humanitarian Context (17 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (27 May 2020)
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