Karen Hargrave and Veronique Barbelet As the first large-scale refugee displacement since the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh has served as a...
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Bangladesh + 1 more
Karen Hargrave and Veronique Barbelet As the first large-scale refugee displacement since the 2016 New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh has served as a...
Larissa Fast This briefing note synthesises research from HPG’s two-year project ‘From the ground up: understanding local response in crises’. It focuses on the different roles of intermediaries in...
In conflict situations around the world, civilians are providing their own frontline ‘protection services’, adopting a variety of strategies and utilising various capacities and capabilities to try...
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HPG’s research into the resources that households use to cope with crisis has revealed the narrow way that humanitarian agencies have been looking at resource flows. Locally led response starts in...
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Humanitarian action has been a mainly international endeavour, where power continues to lie with donors, UN agencies and large INGOs. This led to a call at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 for...
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Nicholas Crawford, Sorcha O'Callaghan Three years in, is the ‘new way of working’ for refugees actually working? Unsurprisingly, the picture is mixed. With global refugee numbers at almost 26...
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Sorcha O'Callaghan, Nicholas Crawford, Kerrie Holloway, Christy Lowe, Alemu Asfaw Nigusie, Freddie Carver and Farah Manji On 19 September 2016, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted...
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Katie Peters There is substantial experience and an extensive literature on humanitarian responses to disasters in conditions of conflict. But little attention has been paid to adapting disaster risk...
Barnaby Willitts-King and Anita Ghimire This case study contributes to HPG’s research on ‘non-traditional’ sources of assistance in crises. The project tests the hypothesis that international...
The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) Annual Report summarises our principal research and non-research work in 2018–2019, during which we concluded a two-year Integrated Programme (IP) of research on...
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Lewis Sida, Simon Levine, Bill Gray and Courtenay Cabot Venton Executive summary In early 2014 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned Valid Evaluations to carry out a...
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Simon Levine and Lewis Sida with Bill Gray and Courtenay Cabot Venton Executive summary Humanitarian aid is largely concentrated in crises that are protracted or recurrent. In 2016, 60% of global...
Simon Levine and Agata Kusnierek Executive summary During Valid Evaluations’ four-year study of multiyear humanitarian financing (MYHF), ill-health repeatedly emerged as a factor maintaining people...
Simon Levine and Agata Kusnierek Executive summary Introduction During Valid Evaluations’ four-year study of multiyear humanitarian financing (MYHF), ill-health repeatedly emerged as a factor keeping...
Simon Levine with Zaki Ullah, Saeed Ullah Khan, Mushtaq Ahmad, Shazia Ghulam, Rahat Iqbal and Saeed Uddin Executive summary As part of a four-year thematic study of the potential contribution of...
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Simon Levine and Agata Kusnierek Introduction 1.1 The thematic evaluation of multi-year humanitarian finance For many years, voices within the humanitarian world have been pointing out a central...
The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) 2017–2019 Integrated Programme seeks to understand the complexities and dynamics of humanitarian action ‘from the ground up’, an initiative tied to a pivot in the...
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Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy and Ghada Al-Bayati with Victoria Metcalfe-Hough and Sarah Adamczyk Since the uprisings across the Arab world in 2011, Libya has been locked in an escalating political...
In 2014 the UK Department for International Development (DFID) shifted to a multi-year humanitarian funding (MYHF) approach. With the introduction of longer funding timeframes, it was anticipated...
The city of Mosul in northern Iraq has been subject to a series of humanitarian crises, most recently as a consequence of the conflict between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the...