Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Blog posts & press:

"Five international NGOs launch fresh bid to tackle power imbalances in aid," The New Humanitarian, 27 Oct. 2022 [text]

Generous aid to Ukraine is diverting resources away from other refugee crises around the world (The Conversation, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Key takeaways from the UN’s record-breaking tally for 2023 humanitarian needs," The New Humanitarian, 1 Dec. 2022 [text]

Looking Ahead to the 2023 Global Refugee Forum: Development Cooperation Initiatives (UNHCR, Dec. 2022) [text]

Rethinking the constraints to localization of foreign aid (Future Development Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

Social protection and humanitarian systems must work together to boost resilience and meet the needs of the forcibly displaced (UNHCR Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Action Learning for Frontline Humanitarians: a resource pack (ALNAP, Nov. 2022) [text]

- See also French and Spanish versions.

"Cash and voucher assistance along humanitarian supply chains: a literature review and directions for future research," Disasters, Early View, 25 Oct. 2021 [open access]

"Ethical considerations around the use of humanitarian imagery," Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 21 (2022) [full-text]

Global Appeal 2023 (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [access]

- See also related press release.

Global Humanitarian Overview 2023 (OCHA, Dec. 2022) [access]

- See also related launch materials and recordings.

Guidance for a Landscape Approach in Displacement Settings (GLADS) (World Agroforestry Centre, Oct. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges, 7-8 Dec. 2022 [access]

- The focus is on "Development Cooperation." See also the NGO statement (oral and written) and a joint agency recommendation note.

Leadership of protection in the humanitarian sector (ODI, Nov. 2022) [text]

More than the sum of the parts? Collective leadership vs individual agency in humanitarian action (HERE-Geneva, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Paranirvar Mānis (Dependent People)? Rethinking Humanitarian Dependency Syndrome: A Bourdieusian Perspective," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 5 Dec. 2022 [open access]

Sharing Tacit Knowledge for Humanitarians: a resource pack (ALNAP, Nov. 2022) [text]

- See also French and Spanish versions.

Towards facilitating local leadership in humanitarian project management (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Nov. 2022) [text via ALNAP]

Multimedia:

Absorptive capacity of refugee host communities, 7 Nov. 2022 [access]

The secret life of energy in refugee camps: uncovering spaces of power and principles of governance within humanitarian energy, 8 Nov. 2022 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (20 Oct. 2022)