Publications

Table of contents:
Open Letter for President von der Leyen: VOICE calls for a strengthened EU leadership on humanitarian efforts
VOICE Policy Resolution 2024 - Take a stand: Pledge for Humanitarian Action!
VOICE President meets with Commissioner Lenarčič
Where is DG INTPA's approach to fragile contexts?
EU Humanitarian Budget 2025: VOICE continues its advocacy
Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the EU
European Humanitarian Forum 2024: VOICE Key Highlights
New VOICE President: Pauline Chetcuti
Former VOICE President Dominic Crowley: Reflections on the last six years
VOICE General Assembly 2024
New VOICE Strategic Plan 2024-2029
The Mediterranean Sea: A Neglected Humanitarian Crisis? – Event wrap-up
VOICE Out Loud 37 "Anticipatory Action: Shaping the Future of Humanitarian Response"
World Humanitarian Day 2024: #ActForHumanity
Meet VOICE's new members
Humming Word: A humanitarian term explained
VOICE Members' publications
Other relevant Humanitarian Aid publications
Events and webinars

The Work Programme of the Hungarian Presidency for COHAFA Working Party, 1 July - 31 December 2024.

VOICE open letter to the re-elected EU President Ursula Von der Leyen, calling on the strengthened support for EU humanitarian aid.

Humanitarian NGOs in Gaza report that Israel’s obstruction of aid, combined with ongoing attacks and a complete siege since October 2023, have severely hindered the effective delivery of essential supplies to the population, exacerbated by recent ground incursions and bombings.

Tracing their journey from crossing the stone of hope that symbolises the boundary between the two countries, to the rehabilitation and resilience processes of these survivors, the film tells us about inspiring women whose stories is a resume of all Sudanese refugees’ reality.

This advocacy brief focuses on 5 crises that have long been neglected: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon, and Sudan.

This report takes stock of some of the new approaches that NGOs and donors are implementing. It seeks to inform thinking on how to best apply lessons from the eight reviewed mechanisms.

The report – When Rain Turns to Dust – is based on research in southern Iraq, northern Mali and the interior of the Central African Republic. It explores people's experience with conflict and climate risks, their ways of coping and adapting and how, in the absence of adequate support, they may be forced to drastically change their way of life, diversify their livelihoods or move away from their homes.

This report is a call to pay attention to the incongruities between today’s global distribution of aid and country-specific levels of need and is a step towards redressing the
imbalance.

This document outlines VOICE’s Strategic Plan for the next five years, 2024 to 2029.

The dedicated interview in the latest VOICE Out Loud features Dr Michael Köhler, Grand Bargain Ambassador, who provides an insightful analysis on the transformative potential of Anticipatory Action in humanitarian aid.

The three global challenges of climate change, extreme poverty and conflict are converging to form a new epicentre of crisis. This convergence is neither a coincidence nor inevitable.

The International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) submission of its views on the tenth technical expert dialogue on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on Climate Finance.

The following article offers elements of analysis and leads regarding emergency humanitarian assistance, which is one of the different forms of international solidarity. It is appropriate to start by identifying humanitarian assistance as one of the main kinds of aid, before studying its flaws regarding the current dynamics, and finally offering some potential solutions.

Le présent article propose des éléments d’analyse et des pistes de réponse circonscrites à l’aide humanitaire d’urgence, qui est l’une des différentes formes que peut prendre la solidarité internationale. Il convient par conséquent de commencer par situer l’aide humanitaire parmi les principaux mécanismes de l’aide, avant d’en étudier les écueils au regard de la situation internationale actuelle, pour enfin proposer des pistes de solutions.

Following 14 months of escalating conflict, Sudan has become the world’s largest hunger crisis with over half of the country experiencing severe food insecurity.

As unprecedented hunger grips Sudan, countless lives hang in the balance. Previous humanitarian efforts have fallen short, but a shift to cash-based interventions such as multi-purpose cash assistance and group cash transfers could be the lifeline needed to prevent widespread deaths.

The IRC has produced a mid-year Sudan Crisis Alert Report to show the trajectory of the world’s worst internal displacement crisis, as an update to the Watchlist report.

In the ‘A Closer Look’ section of the latest VOICE Out Loud, International Medical Corps highlights their critical response to the catastrophic flooding in Derna, Libya.

Save the Children, Plan International and World Vision are concerned that armed groups in Haiti will respond forcefully to the UN-backed Multinational Security Support mission (MSS), expected to deploy this month, putting children at significant new risks of being caught in the crossfire.

The VOICE Policy Resolution 2024 highlights the urgent need for political actors to focus on three priority areas:
1. Close the funding gap
2. Increase the space for humanitarian action
3. Address the growing number of climate disasters

In response to Sudan’s escalating conflict, INTERSOS has crafted a policy paper addressing critical challenges, calling for prompt international assistance to the millions displaced and sharing the humanitarian efforts carried out across neighbouring countries.

This report combines insights from climate finance experts (from national governments, the OECD, UNFCCC and civil society organisations), as well as analysis from Development Initiatives (DI) to highlight where consistency is lacking in climate finance reporting – over time, within and between donors.

At a recent ACT Alliance EU roundtable, EU officials, FBOs and NGOs discussed the role of religious perspectives in gender equality. The event highlighted how Faith Actors can bridge divides, foster dialogue on SRHR, CSE, and LGBTQI+ rights.

The findings and step-by-step guidelines aim to help disaster management professionals improve the conduction of disaster prevention programmes and adapt it to their respective contexts.