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11 February 2022

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Blog posts & press:

Embedding ethics in the practice of humanitarian innovation (HPN Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]

"Localisation only pays lip service to fixing aid’s colonial legacy," The New Humanitarian, 8 Feb. 2022 [text]

Localisation Re-imagined (ALNAP) [access]
- Five-part series on locally-led humanitarian action; essays are published monthly. Three posts are now available.

Reports & journal articles:

"The afterlife of buzzwords: the journey of rights-based approaches through the humanitarian sector," International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 26, no. 2 (2022) [open access]

Blended Finance Solutions for Clean Energy in Humanitarian and Displacement Settings (Global Platform for Action on Sustainable Energy in Displacement Settings, Jan. 2022) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for lessons learned and toolkit.

Guidance: Understanding and addressing bureaucratic and administrative impediments to humanitarian action: Framework for a system-wide approach (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Jan. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Humanitarians' ethics: the role of face-to-face experiences for humanitarian aid workers' motivation," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 23 Dec. 2021 [open access]

Localization: A “Landscape” Report (Tufts Univ., Dec. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report and summary.

"Localization and the Politics of Humanitarian Action," Research topic in Frontiers in Political Science/Human Dynamics [access]
- Follow link to access the seven articles that are part of this collection. See also video recordings of two related panel discussions listed below.

The Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2021 (CARE, Jan. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2022: Assessing Data Availability Across Humanitarian Crises (OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, Feb. 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

An interview with the UN’s humanitarian chief (Rethinking Humanitarianism, Jan. 2022) [access]
- See also transcript here.

Localization and the Politics of Humanitarian Action
- Part 1, 27 Jan. 2022: Focused on practical perspectives on localizing humanitarian action
- Part 2, 7 Feb. 2022: Focused on theoretical conceptions of localizing humanitarian action 

Nexus Collection Podcasts (IASC) [access]

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