Beyond the cost in human lives and suffering, and the instability it brings to the wider region, the war in Gaza has had serious repercussions for international humanitarian law (IHL) and norms...
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State of Practice: The Evolution of Security Risk Management in the Humanitarian Space (February 2024)
By Abby Stoddard, Adelicia Fairbanks, Monica Czwarno, Meriah-Jo Breckenridge, Mariana Duque-Diez, Lisa Reilly, As a subject of humanitarian policy and practice, security risk management (SRM) has...
Humanitarian Access SCORE Report: Sudan - Survey on the Coverage, Operational Reach, and Effectiveness of Humanitarian Aid
Summary The current conflict in Sudan, with its rapid escalation and large-scale violence, stands out among recent crises for the severity of its humanitarian impact. Despite being overshadowed on...
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SCORE: Visual summary of aid coverage and reach in sampling of crisis-affected populations, 2019-2023
Survey on Coverage, Operational Reach, and Effectiveness With our partner, GeoPoll , Humanitarian Outcomes surveyed crisis-affected populations in thefollowing years and locations: 2019 - Afghanistan...
Somali capacities to respond to crisis are changing; how are humanitarian actors responding?
By Peter Hailey, Irina Mosel, Daniel Maxwell, Nisar Majid, Khaliif Cabdullaahi, Gudad Aden, Shamsa Hasan, Partha Moman, Patricia Sampedro, Nancy Balfour Somalia’s most recent humanitarian crisis...
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Aid Worker Security Report 2023 - Security Training in the Humanitarian Sector: Issues of equity and effectiveness
This year’s Aid Worker Security Report discusses the trend of localised security risk reflected in the latest verified data, and examines an area of security risk management that exemplifies the...
Humanitarian Access SCORE Report: Haiti - Survey on the Coverage, Operational Reach, and Effectiveness of Humanitarian Aid
Haiti’s humanitarian crisis has resulted from a political and economic implosion, compounded by natural shocks, but with consequences similar to major armed conflicts – including severe constraints...
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Aid Worker Security Report 2023 - Figures at a glance
Overall, attacks against aid workers were marginally lower in 2022, but there was a significant surge in kidnappings. A total of 439 aid workers fell victim to violence in 230 separate attacks, with...
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas for Humanitarian Action in Afghanistan
The most challenging moral dilemmas involve choosing between two objectively negative outcomes. In Afghanistan, the international aid sector faces a wrenching decision: whether to uphold universal...
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Solidarity at scale: Local responder perspectives and learning from the first week of the earthquake response in Syria and Türkiye
By Alexa Swift, Muhannad Al-Rish, Louisa Seferis, Rosa Akbari This report provides a brief snapshot of issues and challenges facing humanitarian responders during the first 10 days of the earthquake...
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Slipping Away? Examen des capacités humanitaires de riposte au choléra
Aperçu Au cours des deux dernières années, on a constaté une augmentation notable des flambées de choléra et des décès. L’augmentation du nombre de pays où des cas ont été enregistrés, associée à la...
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¿Qué falta? Una revisión de las capacidades humanitarias en la respuesta al cólera
Resumen En los últimos dos años se ha producido un notable repunte de brotes y muertes por cólera. El mayor número de países que han sufrido casos, en combinación con una distribución geográfica...
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Slipping Away? A Review of Humanitarian Capabilities in Cholera Response
By Abby Stoddard, Meriah-Jo Breckenridge, Paul Harvey, Glyn Taylor, Nigel Timmins, Manisha Thomas Over the past two years there has been a notable uptick in cholera outbreaks and deaths. The greater...
Floods in Pakistan: Rethinking the humanitarian role [EN/UR]
This report on the humanitarian response to flooding in Pakistan is the second in a series of rapid reviews conducted by Humanitarian Outcomes under the Humanitarian Rapid Response Initiative (HRRI),...
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Aid Worker Security Report 2022 - Collateral violence: Managing risks for aid operations in major conflict
This year’s Aid Worker Security Report examines the type of security incidents that involve what is often called collateral damage, which includes airstrikes, shelling, landmines, unexploded ordnance...
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Aid Worker Security Report: Figures at a Glance 2022
Attacks against aid workers were more lethal in 2021 despite there being fewer major incidents relative to the two previous years. The 267 reported attacks resulted in 203 aid workers seriously...
Enabling the local response: Emerging humanitarian priorities in Ukraine (March - May 2022)
This brief describes the state of the humanitarian response in Ukraine three months after Russia’s military invasion threw tens of millions of people into crisis. It summarises the findings of a...
Humanitarian Access SCORE Report: Iraq - Survey on the Coverage, Operational Reach, and Effectiveness of Humanitarian Aid
Abby Stoddard, Paul Harvey, Monica Czwarno, and Meriah-Jo Breckenridge Summary Iraq is a post-conflict humanitarian context, which, while no longer contending with major conflict and extreme...
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Aid Worker Security Report: Figures at a Glance 2021
Aid worker casualties remained at a high point in 2020, with the number of major attacks matching last year’s record of 276, and the number of victims down slightly from 481 to 475. The 475 aid...
Somalia: Final Report - Shock-Responsive Cash Transfer Pilot, Learning Partnership, January 2020
Acknowledgments This Learning Partnership report has been commissioned by the Somalia Cash Consortium (SCC) and was generously funded by the DG ECHO. The learning was developed by a Humanitarian...