Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

Webinar: Cross-border Legal Aid Interventions in Humanitarian Contexts: Sharing Good Cross-Border Practices, 20 November 2024 [info]

- See related concept note.

Short pieces:

"Humanitarians: Stop using fear of migration to drive fundraising and advocacy," The New Humanitarian, 15 Oct. 2024 [text]

Prioritising health in humanitarian work: the need for comprehensive and inclusive research [text]

Protecting essential service personnel is a vital part of humanitarian action (Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Oct. 2024) [text]

Redefining leadership in humanitarian action between Global North and Global South (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct. 2024) [text]

"What lies ahead for the UN’s new relief chief," The New Humanitarian, 11 Oct. 2024 [text]

New open access book:

Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move (Routledge, Oct. 2024) [open access]

- "This book investigates how the evolving situation of different forced migrants is accounted for and addressed in humanitarian action in order to improve their access to support and assistance. Bringing together case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific, this book focuses on a diversity of operational modalities and types of assistance provided by both traditional and non-traditional humanitarian actors to address the specific needs of displaced children, women, people with disabilities and older people, as well as trafficked migrant workers. This book adopts a broad perspective on humanitarian action, acknowledging how its boundaries are challenged and expanded in forced migration contexts. Its operational and theoretical insights will be useful for a range of readers, from humanitarian and migration researchers and students to practitioners and policymakers."

Reports:

The Broken Lens: Antimicrobial Resistance in Humanitarian Settings (Médecins Sans Frontières, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Falling short? Humanitarian funding and reform (Development Initiatives, Oct. 2024) [text]

- See also related article in The New Humanitarian.

Neutrality, Access, and Making Localisation Work (Global Interagency Security Forum, Nov. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

*Roadmaps for Energy Access in Displacement Settings (READS) Programme (UNITAR) [access]

- Follow link for reports and other information about the project.

Strengthening Legal Aid and Access to Justice in Humanitarian Settings: A compilation of learning on relevant strategies and effective practices (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines," Disasters, Early View, 15 Oct. 2024 [open access]

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 5, no. 3 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

- Mix of articles.

"Understanding leadership challenges faced by humanitarian aid workers: insights from the experiences of NNPHL training participants," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 9:15 (Oct. 2024) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance (7 Oct. 2024)