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21 May 2024

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Events & opportunities:

Discussion panel: From roadblocks to roadmaps: navigating the enablers and barriers to advancing locally-led and community-engaged evaluation in humanitarian contexts, London/Online, 5 June 2024 [info]

Meetings: 2024 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment & ECOSOC Meeting on the Transition from Relief to Development, New York, 24-28 June 2024 [info]
- The theme of the HAS is "Putting humanity first in the face of conflicts and climate change: strengthening humanitarian assistance and respect for international humanitarian law, and promoting effectiveness, innovation and partnerships." The annual ECOSOC humanitarian resolution on "Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations" will also be discussed.

Short pieces:

The first-ever Movement Migration Strategy (ICRC & IFRC, April 2024) [access]

"New money? What the numbers say about ‘non-traditional’ aid donors," The New Humanitarian, 30 April 2024 [text]

Program on Forced Migration and Health Celebrates 25 Years (Columbia Univ., May 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

2024 ICVA Annual Conference Session 1: Summary Report (ICVA, May 2024) [text]
- This session "focused on trust among NGOs in addressing humanitarian dilemmas and upholding principles, emphasising how these factors influence trust-building or erosion within the humanitarian system."

Beyond survival in displacement: rights essential for wellbeing (ODI, April 2024) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"Guidance on sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian and fragile settings: a scoping review," BMJ Global Health, vol. 9, no. 3 (2024) [open access]

Hidden Hurdles: Unravelling The Complex, Cumulative Effects of Bureaucratic & Administrative Impediments on Crisis-Affected Populations and Humanitarian Response (ICVA, May 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report and indicators.

The Humanitarian Leader (2023) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

Making the Results of Humanitarian Evaluation Accessible to Communities: Why it frequently fails and what to do about it (Humanitarian Advisory Group, April 2024) [text]

No easy choice: A humanitarian’s guide to ethical, principled decision making (Humanitarian Outcomes, May 2024) [access]
- Follow link for guide in multiple languages and additional information.  

Protection of Civilians and Access Explainers (Norwegian Refugee Council, 2024) [access]
- Follow link for set of five explainers that "aim to unpack [the use of] modalities like humanitarian corridors, humanitarian pauses, humanitarian notification systems, evacuations, and safe zones."

Study report: How can humanitarian and development organisations learn, grow, and evolve in fast-changing and complex environments? (World Vision, 2024) [text via ALNAP]

Multimedia:

Let refugees lead (What’s Unsaid Podcast Series, May 2024) [access]

Ukraine – Gaza: regards croisés, 4 April 2024 [access]

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