Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

Webinar: Développons ensemble des nouvelles orientations pour l’évaluation de l’action humanitaire | Consultation francophone, 6 February 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Ethical dilemmas in humanitarian negotiations: Workshop reflections (NCHS Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

"The IFRC needs to change. Here’s a to-do list," The New Humanitarian, 5 Dec. 2023 [text]

Moving humanitarian accountability from a tickbox to a turning point: the crucial role of organisational leadership (ALNAP Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reflecting on a year of humanitarian research and innovation (ELRHA Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Trends driving humanitarian need in 2024 (and what to do about them)," The New Humanitarian, 1 Jan. 2024 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"#AidToo, or when situation permits rape: sexual violence among humanitarian aid workers," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:1 (2024) [open access]

*Breaking the Silence: The 10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2023 (CARE, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Can we make better use of humanitarian data for an impartial and humane response to crisis? (HPN, Nov. 2023) [text]

The Centrality of Protection in Humanitarian Action 2022 (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Nov. 2023) [text]

Guidance Note: Advancing the humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach through IASC global clusters (Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Dec. 2023) [text]

The Largest Humanitarian Needs of 2024 (USCRI, Jan. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also other lists of top humanitarian crises in the IRC's 2024 Emergency Watchlist and The New Humanitarian. 

Migrants’ Perspectives: Building Trust in Humanitarian Action Research Project (Global Migration Lab, Dec. 2023)

- Two new briefing papers have been published: 1) Key Indicators of Competence, Fairness, Integrity, and Inclusion, and 2) Implications of Migrants’ Legal Status.

New directions? Evolving the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) - HPN review summary (HPN, Dec. 2023) [text]

Unfulfilled Promises: Addressing the gap between commitments and practice in locally led humanitarian action (Caritas Europa & Centre for Humanitarian Action, Dec, 2023) [text]

Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus: What can we learn from evaluations? (ALNAP, Dec. 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

How humanitarianism changed in 2023 (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast, Dec. 2023) [access]

Let’s talk about aid diversion (What’s Unsaid Podcast, Dec. 2023) [access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (3 Nov. 2023)