Humanitarian Agenda 2015: The State of the Humanitarian Enterprise describes the challenges faced by humanitarian actors striving to maintain fidelity to their ideals in a globalized world. The rep...
Briefing Paper
Strengthening the humanity and dignity of people in crisis through knowledge and practice
Humanitarian Agenda 2015: Principles, Power, and Perceptions
Afghanistan: Humanitarianism...
This report summarizes the findings of the first phase of a major research project on the challenges and compromises that are likely to affect humanitarian action in the next decade.
The issues ar...
CONTENTS
PREFACE NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Chapter 1 THE “GLORIOUS THIRTIES”: THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (Domestici-Met) A. The Rise in Capacity B. The Enrichment of the Co...
CONTENTS
PREFACE NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Chapter 1 THE “GLORIOUS THIRTIES”: THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (Domestici-Met) A. The Rise in Capacity B. The Enrichment of the Co...
The data in the four areas we have studied confirms that the humanitarian enterprise is vulnerable to manipulation by powerful political forces far more than is widely understood. Its practitioners...
Highlighting major changes in the context in Iraq and rapid deterioration of the humanitarian situation, this brief report summarizes an Iraq country study to be issued in final form as part of the...
In these brief comments, Donini deals with three related issues likely to affect the future of the humanitarian enterprise:
* How can we make it “of the world” rather than “of the North”?
* Has...
This briefing paper is about the financing of humanitarian action. In the paper, and in the forthcoming workshop, we want to ask some basic questions.
* Is the pot of humanitarian finance able t...
Disasters,1998, 22(4): 352^360
In Defence of Humanitarianism
Nicholas Stockton Oxfam
The humanitarian crisis which followed in the wake of the genocidal regime in Rwanda in 1994 generated massive...
This chapter of GHA Report 2009 explores the extent to which humanitarian assistance is used to address short-term or enduring needs and the
part it plays in sustainable poverty reduction and deve...
GHA Report 2009 presents the latest data on financial flows to humanitarian crises. But the key messages in the report are not only about money. Financing decisions affect behaviour and humanitaria...
Chapter 3 of the GHA Report 2009 by Development Initiatives asks what we know about how much humanitarian assistance is provided internationally from all sources and whether or not it is enough to ...