Publications

This guidance note has been developed to support efforts to strengthen the meaningful participation, representation, and leadership of local and national humanitarian actors within IASC humanitarian coordination structures. It draws on over 100 pieces of research and good practice to provide recommendations.

This report builds on a survey conducted by Oxfam International to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on women’s rights sector and feminist organizations and networks.The main finding is that "33% had to lay off anywhere between 1 and 10 members and 9% of organizations have faced closure."

The Participatory Resilience Analysis and Measurement (PRAM) tool was born of the desire to be able to assess, measure and track changes in the resilience levels of households and communities that participate in Action Against Hunger’s targeted disaster prevention and resilience, and nutrition security interventions. Measuring changes in resilience is considered a key element to understanding how resilience manifests itself in different contexts, and can provide a basis for understanding the drivers of resilience in the most vulnerable communities, and therefore how best to address the root causes of vulnerability.

The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021 brings a comprehensive picture of the global financing landscape for humanitarian responses in a year like no other. It sets out how humanitarian needs changed in 2020, and the extent to which funding met those needs. It provides a unique analysis on the total amount of international humanitarian assistance contributed last year and key changes in the behaviour of public donors in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. It also looks at the wider financing landscape to set out the role of actors in crisis contexts beyond the humanitarian sector.

This report presents some of last year’s DRA's achievements in working towards the fulfilment of the Grand Bargain commitments.

The research, commissioned and reviewed by Caritas Norway, DanChurchAid (DCA), Kindernothilfe (KNH), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA) finds that the way partnerships are shaped influences the principled delivery of aid. It suggests a need for new and stronger models of humanitarian partnership that are more equitable, and which take collective responsibility for principled delivery of humanitarian aid.

VOICE calls on the EU and its Member States (MS) to make the GB 2.0 a real turning point in the humanitarian aid system through the adoption of the recommendations of the Policy resolution adopted by NGO members at the General Assembly 2021.

Minutes of the FPA WG meeting on the 21/04/2021.
Key topics: HR costs, consortium, assessments/audits, guidance notes, simplification and harmonisation

This issue is dedicated to exploring the progress, challenges and lessons learnt from the Durable Solutions Consortia and programmes implemented in Somalia during the last 3 years by Concern and other implementing partners.

It is estimated that 155 million people experienced acute food insecurity across 55 countries in 2020 – an increase of 20 million compared to 2019. The IRC estimates that without urgent action, progress towards the SDG target of Zero Hunger will effectively be suspended by at least 5 years. The G7 UK Presidency’s leadership of the G7 Famine Prevention and Humanitarian Crises Panel provides an opportunity for defined action. This report outlines the priority actions that the G7 and wider international community must take to prevent famine and build countries’ preparedness and resilience against future food security crises.

VOICE Activity report 2020.  Read about the achievements and activities of the network over the last year.

How can the EU support access to education as a key element of human development? Plan International has prepared a list of recommendations for EU Member States to help answer exactly that.

Care, Oxfam, Christian Aid, Dan Church Aid, Nexus, Save The Children, NEAR, ActionAid and International Rescue Committee joint position paper on the future of the Grand Bargain.

In January 2016, the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing (HLP) published its report Too important to fail – addressing the humanitarian financing gap, which formed the basis for the Grand Bargain negotiations in early 2016. Five years on, this report seeks to identify, assess and analyse initiatives taken in the spirit of the HLP’s recommendations under its two main pillars, and to identify possible links with progress on the Grand Bargain.

Agenda of the round-table on the impact of insecurity on humanitarian interventions. 

This report captures the findings of an online survey on the impacts of sanctions and counter-terrorism (CT) restrictive measures on VOICE member NGOs, and the VOICE Webinar on EU Restrictive Measures and Humanitarian Aid: Between a principled view for exemptions and a pragmatic approach for an effective derogation process (December 2020).

This briefing paper describes the three different modalities for delivering aid in Syria which have emerged in an attempt to provide principled humanitarian aid, and especially the cross-border mechanism on which North West, Syria relies. It explains why cross-line aid is not an option in the North West, and the devastating impacts that non-renewal of the cross-border mechanism would bring.

In the North-West Syria response, cash assistance is mostly once-off or else for a maximum of 3 months. GOAL Syria is delivering a large-scale value voucher or food kit response to support food security needs. However, needs assessment repeatedly show that households have high non-food needs along with food needs. As a result, GOAL Syria incorporated Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) alongside its value voucher/food kit assistance to cover the cost of the Non-Food Item portion of households monthly survival needs. The MPCA is provided to household's for 6 months- something that is quite new to the North-West Syria response.

Questions and Answers on the New Humanitarian Partnership.

An entire generation of children has been lost to the conflict in Syria. Today, Syria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. This report, produced by World Vision in partnership with Frontier Economics, uses an evidence-base to show the incredible loss of human capital in Syria as a result of a continuous cycle of grave violations against children, heavy economic costs, and shattered opportunities for future generations and highlights that Syria’s children will ultimately bear the cost of conflict in Syria.

The statement of WE World on winning the InterAction contest on result-based protection

This report summarizes DRC’s response in the context of its global appeal for a total of 75 million USD to address the impact of COVID-19, launched in April 2020.

To support progress towards a safe and fulfilling future for displaced children, Save the Children emphasises the importance of ensuring that displaced children experience full physical, material, legal and psychosocial safety, all of which are crucial for a child’s survival and development. The aim of this research is to explore in greater detail the elements of a displaced child’s experience that contribute to building their mental health and sense of belonging, also known as “psychosocial safety”. This lesser-explored element of safety is vital to working towards safe and meaningful participation of children in decision-making, supporting positive mental health and wellbeing, in any attempt to meaningfully reduce the vulnerabilities a child experiences as a result of their displacement.

The INGO Forum in the Democratic Republic of Congo wish to underline some of the concerns and opportunities for action to alleviate the plight of the 19,6 million people in need in the DRC.

The multi-sectoral research provides striking information on the direct impacts of COVID-19 on food security, WASH, health, education, income, and on the indirect ones, related to indebtedness, psychosocial status, domestic and community cohesion, thus offering a more holistic understanding of the full impacts of the pandemic that people are dealing with.