Description

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 humanitarian architecture. They help determine the power of different groups, they influence policy priorities and capacity development.

The financial choices made within and between humanitarian crises will often have consequences that are felt well beyond the scope of the original time-bound intervention. So it is important to see the data and analysis presented within the wider context of protecting lives and livelihoods and poverty reduction – making linkages between short-term,acute crises and long-term, chronic poverty. These issues are examined in more detail in the final chapter of this year’s report:

- Global humanitarian assistance
- Official (DAC) humanitarian assistance
- Humanitarian assistance from non-DAC donors
- Humanitarian assistance through NGOs
- Financing mechanisms
- Taking the long view
- Humanitarian donor profiles