26 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

Discussion panel: Humanitarian aid at a crossroads: how to let go, London/Online, 1 April 2026 [info]

Seminar: Rethinking aid: Lessons from refugee‑led responses, Oslo/Online, 23 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

Country-based pooled funds… the key to unlocking localised funding, or just another blunt instrument? (ODI Comment, March 2026) [text]

Drivers for the humanitarian reset (The Interpreter Blog, March 2026) [text]

Humanitarian aid at the crossroads of legitimacy (ODI Comments, March 2026) [text]

UK Aid Cuts Now Deeper than the US After Congress Pushes Back (CGD Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

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Reports: 

Advocacy Brief: Alternatives to Camp (CCCM Cluster, Feb. 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts (Refugees International, Feb. 2026) [text]
- See also related NYT opinion piece and recording of a related event in the "multimedia" section below.

How underfunding local organisations' overheads undermines humanitarian action (ODI Humanitarian Policy Group, March 2026) [text]

Locally-Led Protection Analysis Survey Synthesis Report (Global Protection Cluster et al., March 2026) [access]
- Follow link for multiple language versions.

Navigating Discretion in Refugee Protection: How Humanitarian Organisations Can Make a Positive Impact?, RLI Working Paper, no. 82 (Refugee Law Initiative, March 2026) [text]

Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Findings from Crisis-specific Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations Covering the Period 2015-2025 (Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation Steering Group, March 2026) [text]
- See also recording of a related event in the "multimedia" section below.

UNHCR WASH Manual: Practical Guidance for Refugee Settings, 8th ed. (UNHCR, 2026) [text]

Who's in the Driver's Seat? Centering Locally-Led Protection Analysis across Analysis-Informed Planning, Response and Transition (Global Protection Cluster, March 2026) 
- See the concept note and outcome report for an HNPW 2026.

Journal articles:

"Evolving Through Challenges: Reflections from Intervention’s Editorial Board on the Financial Situation in the Humanitarian Sector," Intervention, vol. 23, no. 1 (Dec. 2025) [open access]

"The Role of Livestock in the Nutrition of Refugees and Internally Displaced People: A Scoping Review," Nutrition Research Reviews, 6 March 2026 [postprint]

Multimedia:

Aid Cuts One Year On: Local Solutions to Indefensible Harm, 5 Feb. 2026 [access]

Evidence at a turning point: Key findings from the synthesis of Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluations, 4 March 2026 [access]

Humanitarian knowledge in danger: Addressing the digital infrastructure shortfall, 10 March 2026 [access]

Safeguarding humanitarian memory: Challenges and a practical toolkit for digital archives, 2 March 2026 [access]

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