As a first step, the humanitarian community should develop an international code of conduct on the use of robotics in humanitarian aid.
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As a first step, the humanitarian community should develop an international code of conduct on the use of robotics in humanitarian aid.
Although national institutions and local organisations can help improve humanitarian responses to particular crises, they have often been kept at arm's length by the international humanitarian community. For example, national NGOs currently only receive 1.6% of international humanitarian funding,...
A special edition of Humanitarian Exchange Magazine focuses on lessons learned from the large-scale national and international (Level 3) response.
The latest edition of Humanitarian Exchange Magazine focuses on the humanitarian situation in the world’s newest state, where up to five million will need food and livelihoods support this year.
The paper highlights lessons learned from the infoasaid project, which sought to improve messaging to, and dialogue with, crisis-affected populations in emergencies.
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The special feature of this issue of Humanitarian Exchange focuses on the humanitarian crisis in the Sahel region of Africa, where aid agencies estimate that more than 18 million people are affected by food insecurity. In the lead article Peter Gubbels argues that the main cause of this crisis is...
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Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late. An enormous investment in early warning over a number of years has brought great improvements: mass human fatalities have become rarer in the past 25 years. However, humanitarian response now aims to prevent...
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How can emergency response be delivered in a more conflict-sensitive manner? To what extent should this be a priority for the sector? What practical tools and approaches have aid agencies used to better understand their contexts of intervention and minimize conflict risks? As these issues become...
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Humanitarian accountability Welcome to the new-look Humanitarian Exchange! This edition, coedited with ALNAP’s John Mitchell and Paul Knox-Clarke, is dedicated to accountability in humanitarian action. In their overview article our coeditors reflect on the underlying rationales – both moral and...