Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

Call for applications: Request for Concept Notes for Humanitarian Research [info]

- Submission deadline is 20 January 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Localisation Re-imagined (ALNAP) [access]

- Five-part series on locally-led humanitarian action; essays are published monthly. Currently, two are available.

The Localization Spirit: Shifting Power or Accountability? (UNHCR Innovation Service, Dec. 2021) [text]

"Ten humanitarian crises and trends to watch in 2022," The New Humanitarian, 29 Dec. 2021 [text]

- See also related article on Editors' Picks.

"The year in humanitarian news," The New Humanitarian, 27 Dec. 2021 [text]

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

Reports:

2022 Emergency Watchlist: System Failure (International Rescue Committee, Dec. 2021) [text]

Compendium: Protection-Sensitive Access to Clean Cooking (UNHCR, Oct. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluation of UNHCR’s Engagement in Humanitarian-development Cooperation: Report on a Longitudinal, Independent Evaluation (Sept. 2018-March 2021) - Volume 1: Main Report, ES/2021/05 (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [text]

Humanitarian Access Overview (ACAPS, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- "Provides a snapshot of the most challenging contexts for humanitarian access."

Journal articles:

"The Crises Behind Crises: Reformulating Humanitarianism to Address Why People Flee," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 10, no. 1 (2021) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 115. 

Disasters, vol. 45, no. S1 (Dec. 2021) [free full-text]

- Special issue on "The Covid-19 pandemic: global dimensions, local responses."

Disasters, vol. 46, no. 1 (Jan. 2022) [free full-text]

- Mix of articles.

Humanitarian Aid on the Move, no. 23 (Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Themed issue on "Local solidarity, mutual assistance and citizenship in times of crisis."

"The Influence of News Coverage on Humanitarian Aid: The Bureaucrats’ Perspective," Journalism Studies, Latest Articles, 10 Dec. 2021 [open access]

"Inter-organisational communication: organisational future orientation, inter-organisational interaction quality and inter-organisational group mechanism," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:2 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

- Focuses on Uganda.

"The racialization of expertise and professional non-equivalence in the humanitarian workplace," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:3 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4 (Dec. 2021) [contents]

- Special issue on "Humanitarian Accountability in Displacement Contexts."

"Use of COVID-19 evidence in humanitarian settings: the need for dynamic guidance adapted to changing humanitarian crisis contexts," Conflict and Health, 15:83 (Nov. 2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

Accountability to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the Humanitarian Response in Uganda and Bangladesh, 1 Dec. 2021 [access]

Are volunteers the new face of humanitarian border aid response? (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Dec. 2021) [access]

Who will finance growing humanitarian needs? (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Dec. 2021) [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (6 Dec. 2021)