The year 2005 has seen an unprecedented appetite for dialogue on reform of the international peace, security and aid architecture, reaching a peak around the World Summit in September 2005. This has...
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Desk Review: The Effects of Food Aid on Household Migration Patterns and Implications for Emergency Food Assessments
This report was commissioned by the World Food Programme (WFP) in response to a recommendation by the SENAC project (Strengthening Needs Assessment Capacity in WFP) to review analytical methods and...
Orphans of conflict: Caring for the internally displaced
This report proposes five steps to improve the global response to internal displacement. If taken, these steps would build ownership of IDPs by host governments and foreign donors, implement rules...
Diversity in donorship: The changing landscape of official humanitarian aid
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HPG Briefing Note: Humanitarian issues in Niger
Few doubt that there is currently a humanitarian crisis in Niger. But the scale and severity of the crisis, the point at which it turned 'critical' and the question of whether there is a current or...
Dependency and humanitarian relief: a critical analysis
In many emergency contexts, aid agencies hesitate to provide food and other aid for extended periods because of fears that this may create 'dependency'. Concerns about dependency are about more than...
Managing the risks of corruption in humanitarian relief operations
Humanitarian relief is worth as much as $10 billion annually, funded and delivered through a mosaic of donor organisations, bilateral and multilateral agencies, NGOs, Red Cross movement agencies,...
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Cash and vouchers in emergencies
Researched, written and published by the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI Paul Harvey Research Fellow, HPG Executive summary Researched, written and published by the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI...
Cash and vouchers in emergencies: a Discussion Paper from the Humanitarian Policy Group
This discussion paper attempts to answer to the following question: when does it make sense to give people cash or vouchers in emergencies, rather than in-kind assistance? To this purpose, it looks...