Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

Report launch: 2022 edition of The State of the Humanitarian System report, Nairobi/Online, 7 September 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Is Ukraine the next tipping point for humanitarian aid reform?," The New Humanitarian, 25 July 2022 [text]

UK drops out of top performers in Aid Transparency Index for first time (Bond News, July 2022) [text]

Reports:

Advancing Nexus in the MENA Region: - Breaking the Silos - Research and documentation of the state of Humanitarian Development-Peace (HDP) nexus in the MENA region (ICVA, July 2022) [text]

Basic needs and wellbeing in displacement settings: the role of humanitarian assistance and social protection (ODI, July 2022) [text]

- "This paper combines findings from mixed-methods primary research conducted in 2020–2021 in six sites across Cameroon, Colombia and Greece."

China’s humanitarian assistance activities in Africa, K4D Helpdesk Report, no. 1114 (IDS, March 2022) [text]

Chronic Crisis Financing? Fifty Years of Humanitarian Aid and Future Prospects, SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security, no. 5 (SIPRI, April 2022) [text]

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2022 (Development Initiatives, July 2022) [access]

- This volume "highlights the key trends in how much assistance there is, who is providing it and how. It re-enforces the imperative for change to the sources, structures and methods of humanitarian funding, and to the manner and extent of engagement with and targeting of wider sources of finance – developmental and climate-related – to countries vulnerable to and experiencing crisis." See also related article, "Key takeaways from the latest humanitarian funding data," in The New Humanitarian.

Grand Bargain Caucus on Quality Funding: Outcome Document (International Rescue Committee, July 2022) [text]

Humanitarian assistance and social protection in contexts of forced displacement: effects on social cohesion (ODI, May 2022) [access]

- Follow link for report, annex and background literature review.

Inclusion and exclusion in humanitarian action: findings from a three-year study (ODI, July 2022) [text]

INGOS & the Long Humanitarian Century: Leadership Survey Report (Nuffield College, et al., 2022) [access]

- "What leaders of international NGOs think about the challenges they face, and the future of the aid and development sector." Follow link for report and background info on the project.

Re-imagining the Role of the Humanitarian Agency of the African Union to Encompass Conflict Prevention, IPSS Policy Brief (Institute for Peace & Security Studies, March 2022) [text]

UN Sanctions and Humanitarian Action Policy Memo Series (UN University, March 2022) 

- No. 1: Impartial Humanitarian Organizations

- No. 2: The Notion of “Humanitarian Activities”

- No. 3: Humanitarian Exemptions in UN Sanctions Regimes

- No. 4: Sanctions and International Humanitarian Law: The Forgotten Story

Journal articles:

"Decolonising humanitarianism or humanitarian aid," PLOS Global Public Health 2(4): e0000179 (April 2022) [open access]

The Humanitarian Leader (2022) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

"Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses," Higher Education, Latest Articles, 4 Feb. 2022 [open access]

- See also earlier related article.

"Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast Asia," The Pacific Review, vol. 35, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1 (8 July 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 2 (Global Impacts of Ukraine Crisis) (8 July 2022)