Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2021 [info]

CFP: World Conference on Humanitarian Studies, Online/Paris, 3-5 November 2021 [info]

- Browse through the extensive list of proposed panels. Submit abstracts by 1 Sept. 2021.

Call for registration: Learning from disruption: evolution, revolution or status quo?, 2021 ALNAP Meeting, Online, 19-21 October 2021 [info]

- Early bird registration deadline is 15 September 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Humanitarian communication in a post-truth world (Humanitarian News Research Network, July 2021) [text]

The time of the humanitarian diplomat (NCHS Blog, July 2021) [text]

What is killing humanitarian aid workers? (NCHS Blog, Aug. 2021) [text]

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

Reports:

From knowing to doing: evidence use in the humanitarian sector (ELRHA, June 2021) [text]

Guidance: Strengthening Participation, Representation and Leadership of Local and National Actors in IASC Humanitarian Coordination Mechanisms (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, July 2021) [text]

Humanitarian learning under the Covid-19 pandemic: a pathway to localisation? (Humanitarian Leadership Academy, Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

IASC Product Catalogue 2021(Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Aug. 2021) [text]

Local humanitarian action during Covid-19: findings from a diary study (ODI, July 2021) [text]

Operational guidance: Responding to the health and protection needs of people selling or exchanging sex in humanitarian settings (UNFPA & UNHCR, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires, no. 17 (July 2021) [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue's theme focus is "Research and humanitarian aid: the challenges of a collaboration/Recherche et humanitaire: les défis d'une collaboration." 

"Localization is Self-Determination," Frontiers in Political Science, 6 July 2021 [open access]

"Measuring self-reliance among refugee and internally displaced households: the development of an index in humanitarian settings," Conflict and Health, 15:56 (July 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

The Decolonization of Aid (KUNO, Partos & ISS)

- #1: A Conversation from an Historical Perspective [access]

- #2: A Conversation from a Development Cooperation Perspective [access]

- #3: A Conversation from a Humanitarian Perspective [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (25 June 2021)