02 October 2020

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

Speaker event: Ethics & Corruption in Humanitarian Operations, 6 October 2020 [info]

Speak event: Is Unrestricted Cash and Voucher Assistance in Humanitarian Response a Radical Act?, 20 October 2020
- A registration link is not yet available, but will eventually be shared via IIHA's Twitter feed.

Blog posts & press:

"Change in the humanitarian sector, in numbers," The New Humanitarian, 9 Sept. 2020 [text]
- "A deep dive into 25 years of data." See also related Twitter thread.

"Look back and learn: Notable humanitarians who took sides," The New Humanitarian, 22 Sept. 2020 [text]

UNHCR and some 100 NGOs urge world not to leave refugees behind in COVID-19 responses (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [text]
- This call came "as part of the annual consultations between UNHCR and NGOs, co-hosted by UNHCR and the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), that were held from 28 to 30 September." The theme as "Responding to Pandemics." Note: No info on the consultations is available yet on UNHCR's web site.

Why the Syria crisis shows us the Triple Nexus is a myth (ALNAP Blog, Sept. 2020) [text]

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

Reports & journal articles:

Cash and voucher assistance for adolescents: An evidence review of how cash and voucher assistance can achieve outcomes for adolescents in humanitarian settings (Plan International & Women's Refugee Commission, Oct. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Consequences of Underfunding in 2020 (UNHCR, Sept. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for companion site and link to full report. See also related press release.

Covid-19 and Fragile Contexts: Reviving Multilateralism’s Promise to “Leave No One Behind" (International Rescue Committee, Sept. 2020) [text]

Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19 Progress Report, 2nd (OCHA, Aug. 2020) [text]

Humanitarian Assistance in the Asia-Pacific during COVID-19, NTS Insight, no. IN20-06
(Nanyang Technological Univ., Aug. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: Towards Differentiated Configurations (UN Research Institute for Social Development, Sept. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The ICRC’s Changing Role In International Humanitarianism," Brown Journal of World Affairs, vol. 26, no. 2 (2020) [full-text]

"Localisation Across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus," Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, vol. 15, no. 2 (2020) [open access]
- Part of special issue on "Crisis and Conflict in the Muslim World: Localisation of Responses." See also related editorial.

The State of the Humanitarian System, Fifth Edition 2018-2021: Inception Report (ALNAP, Sept. 2020) [text]
- "This is the inception report outlining the aims; scope; research approach, methods and framework; and research components for the fifth edition of The State of the Humanitarian System report."

Multimedia:

From Camps to Streets: Adapting Humanitarian Operations for Urban Areas, 22 Sept. 2020 [access}
- Follow link for video recording.

The relationship between peace operations and humanitarian assistance: enabling or harmful?, 9 Sept. 2020 [access]
- Follow link for video recording.

See also the Global Protection Cluster's "Global Protection Forum" page for videos of recently held webinars and other events.

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