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29 August 2020

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Survey: Racism in the Aid Sector [info]

Conference: ALNAP 33rd Annual Meeting [info]
- Theme is "Facing the Unknown: Managing uncertainty in humanitarian action." A call for ideas to help shape the annual meeting has been issued; submit feedback by 11 September 2020. For the meeting itself, a Virtual Curtain-Raiser will take place 18-19 November 2020 and an in-person component will be held in mid-2021. Registration deadline for both is 18 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

"Bearing Witness Inside MSF," The New Humanitarian, 18 Aug. 2020 [text]

Fighting Racism and Decolonizing Humanitarian Studies: Toward Mindful Scholarship (PRIO Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

The Humanitarian Global Colour Line (ALNAP Blog, July 2020) [text]

Humanitarians are not Heroes: Ideas to Counter the Narrative of World Humanitarian Day [text]

Management at MSF (CRASH Blog, 2020) [Part 1] [Part 2]

We Need to Talk about Principles (ALNAP Blog, July 2020) [text]

World Humanitarian Day 2020, 19 Aug. 2020
- OCHA briefing
- UN news story
- UNHCR news story
- Routledge discount on Humanitarian Studies series

World Humanitarian Day 2020: Confronting Systemic Inequality in the Sector (ODI Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"You Don't Have to be Neutral to be a Good Humanitarian," The New Humanitarian, 27 Aug. 2020 [text]

More humanitarian-related blog posts can be found in IHSA's weekly round-ups.

Multimedia:

Decolonising Aid Webinar Series (Intersectional Feminist Foreign Policy and Adeso)
- Video recordings of the first two webinars in this series are available here: Part 1 and Part 2.

Emancipating the Humanitarian System in Africa: A Conversation with Degan Ali, 25 Aug. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

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