06 December 2021

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

Lecture: New Emergencies and Protracted Crisis: Refugee Protection at Risk, 9 December 2021 [info]

Job announcement: Deputy Regional Representative Asia Pacific, ICVA [info]
- Apply by 2 January 2022.

Job announcement: Representative for West and Central Africa, ICVA [info]
- Apply by 2 January 2022.

Reports: 

Analysis of the adaptation, innovation and coping mechanisms of humanitarian organizations in the context of limited access to information during the COVID-19 pandemic (iMMAP, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

The centrality of protection in humanitarian action review 2020 (Global Protection Cluster, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Complex systems modeling for humanitarian action: Methods and opportunities (OCHA, Nov. 2021) [text]

Global Humanitarian Overview 2022 (OCHA, Dec. 2021) [text]
- Visit the companion website for more information.

IASC Protection Policy Implementation Review Inception Report (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, published Sept. 2021; posted Nov. 2021) 
- Note: The report is no longer available on ReliefWeb but the text is still accessible via Google's cache.

Improving the Agency and Equity of Marginalised Communities in the COVID-19 Crisis: Advocacy brief for organisations working across the humanitarian development nexus (Women's Refugee Commission, Dec. 2021) [text]

Is aid really changing? What the Covid-19 response tells us about localisation, decolonisation and the humanitarian system (British Red Cross, Oct. 20210 [access]
- See also related literature review.

Mapping good practice in the implementation of humanitarian-development-peace nexus approaches: Synthesis Report (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Sept. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Trends in Humanitarian Data: Data Availability and Quality during COVID-19 and Effects on Humanitarian Organizations (iMMAP, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Urbanisation, Displacement and Urban Planning: Themes and issues for the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus (Royal Town Planning Institute, Sept. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Accountability in Humanitarian Action," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 3 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"The humanitarian alibi: an overview and a redefinition," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:22 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

"Moving beyond informal action: sustainable energy and the humanitarian response system," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 6:21 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

Humanitarian action in 2021: tensions, trade-offs and dilemmas, 3 Dec. 2021 [access]

Learning from disruption: evolution, revolution or status quo?, 2021 ALNAP Meeting, 19-21 Oct. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for audio/video recordings.

Rethinking Humanitarianism: Diversity in the aid sector, 13 Oct. 2021 [access]
- Follow link for podcast. See also related TNH article.

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