Opportunities:
Seminar: The Humanitarian Archives Emergency: How and Why Digital Solutions Contribute to the Survival of Archives in Danger, Geneva & Online, 24 February 2026 [info]
Seminar: When aid stops – confinement, cuts, and diaspora responses, 26 February 2026 [info]
Events: Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, Geneva and/or Online, 2-12 March 2026 [info]
- "One of the largest gatherings for Member States, UN agencies, NGOs, the private sector, academia, and others to share expertise, hold consultations and collaborate on challenges - spanning both humanitarian action and development solutions in crisis contexts." See, e.g., ALNAP's and ELRHA's sessions.
Call for applications: Research co-lead, Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) 2026 Report [info]
- Apply by 5 March 2026.
Short pieces:
Advisory Panel on the Future of Humanitarian Action: Global South Perspectives (ODI, Feb. 2026) [access]
All-Member State briefing with the High Commissioner (UNHCR, Feb. 2026) [text]
Beyond definitional ambiguity: locally led action as baseline, localisation as reform (HPN, Feb. 2026) [text]
IOM and IFRC Assume Co-Leadership of Global Shelter, Land and Site Coordination Cluster (IOM, Feb. 2026) [text]
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Reports:
Analytical Note on UNHCR Multi-Purpose Hubs (MPHs), IOM Migrant Resource Centres (MRCs), and IFRC Humanitarian Service Points (HSPs): Clarifying Mandates, Design Logic, and Complementarity under Route-Based Approach (UNHCR, IOM & IFRC, Feb. 2026) [text]
Humanitarian funding cuts: power, prioritisation, and systemic injustice in global humanitarian aid, STG Policy Paper, no. 2 (European University Institute, Jan. 2026) [text]
Restitution of findings in humanitarian research: Guidance note (ELRHA, Feb. 2026) [text]
- "Addresses a critical gap in the research cycle: restitution of findings: returning data, evidence, and knowledge to the communities that contributed to the research."
Situating Social Assistance Providers’ Perspectives in Protracted Displacement Contexts, BASIC Research Working Paper, no. 59 (Institute of Development Studies, Jan. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Lebanon, Pakistan, and the DRC.
Journal articles:
"CIRV: a composite index for humanitarian financing," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 11:4 (Feb. 2026) [open access]
- Note: CIRV = CERF Index for Risk and Vulnerability
Humanitarian Aid on the Move, no. 27 (Feb. 2026) [full-text via ReliefWeb]
- Special issue on "Between preservation and transformation: the aid sector at a crossroads."
"Humanitarian diplomacy in practice: Turkish and Qatari NGOs navigating access and influence in Somalia," Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Latest Articles, 13 Jan. 2026 [open access]
"Impact of two decades of humanitarian and development assistance and the projected mortality consequences of current defunding to 2030: retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis," The Lancet Global Health, OnlineFirst, 2 Feb. 2026 [open access]
"Perceived suffering in humanitarian images: A photo-elicitation," Social Sciences & Humanities Open, vol. 3 (June 2026) [open access]
"Power and its discontents: The long road to systemic change in the aid sector," World Development, vol. 200 (April 2026) [open access]
Multimedia:
Burnout in the aid sector and how to respond (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, Feb. 2026) [access]
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