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:

10 years of the Aid Transparency Index—How has the US fared? (Future Development, Aug. 2022) [text]

*‘I am you and you are me’: UNHCR staff draw on first-hand knowledge of displacement (UNHCR, Aug. 2022) [text]

"Policymakers and racial justice activists came together to discuss decolonising aid. Here’s what happened…," The New Humanitarian, 11 Aug. 2022 [text]

- See also related feature and reading/resource list.

"U.N. Faces Record Humanitarian Aid Shortfall — but Not for Ukrainians," New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022 [text]

Why does the humanitarian system need so much money? (Humanitarian Funding Forecast, Aug. 2022) [text]

World Humanitarian Day, 19 Aug. 2022 [access]

- See also The New Humanitarian's related feature, 

Reports & journal articles:

Aid Worker Security Report 2022 - Collateral violence: Managing risks for aid operations in major conflict (Humanitarian Outcomes, Aug. 2022) [text]

- See also related figures at a glance and timeline.

"From humanitarian aid to mutual aid: A lexicon of border struggle," Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [text]

"Help-seeking attitudes and behaviours among humanitarian aid workers," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 7:16 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: Immigrant Organizations and the Swedish Policy Framework for Development and Humanitarian Assistance," Forum for Development Studies, Latest Articles, 12 July 2022 [open access]

The State of the Humanitarian Energy Sector: Challenges, Progress and Issues in 2022 (UNITAR, 2022) [access via RSC]

Systems thinking for humanitarians: An introduction for the complete beginner (ALNAP, Aug. 2022) [text]

Towards Co-Ownership: The Role of Intermediaries in Supporting Locally-Led Humanitarian Action (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Aug. 2022) [text]

Unpacking the value of locally led humanitarian action (Humanitarian Practice Network, Aug. 2022) [text]

Resource:

Underfunded Crisis Index (Humanitarian Funding Forecast) [access]

- This newly-launched index "shows that 5 contexts are chronically underfunded (<40%). This includes three regional refugee response plans (DR Congo, Burundi, and South Sudan), as well as Haiti and Venezuela."

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (29 July 2022)