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Publications
Throughout the year, VOICE produces and disseminates key documents reflecting on humanitarian aid issues at the EU level and from an NGO perspective. They are addressed to decision-makers within the European institutions, at the National level, to NGO networks and other stakeholders of the humanitarian community, as well as to the VOICE members. Some documents are produced by the VOICE Secretariat with the support of VOICE members while others are publications from members and other key stakeholders in the humanitarian sector.
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Participatory Resilience Analysis and Measurement Tool - Guidance Document ACF
01 July 2021Members' publicationsThe 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. -
Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2021
29 June 2021The 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. -
Dutch Relief Alliance - Working on the Grand Bargain Commitments
23 June 2021This report presents some of last year’s DRA's achievements in working towards the fulfilment of the Grand Bargain commitments. -
Towards principled humanitarian action in conflict contexts. Understanding the role of partnerships.
10 June 2021Members' publicationsThe 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 Policy Resolution 2021- Grand Bargain 2.0: let’s make it a turning point in the global humanitarian aid system
09 June 2021VOICE policy resolutionsVOICE 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. -
FPA Watch Group meeting minutes - 21.04.2021
09 June 2021FPA Watch GroupMinutes of the FPA WG meeting on the 21/04/2021.
Key topics: HR costs, consortium, assessments/audits, guidance notes, simplification and harmonisation -
Knowledge Matters: Special issue on Durable Solutions in Somalia - Concern
03 June 2021Members' publicationsThis 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. -
Ending the hunger crisis: Response, recovery and resilience - IRC
01 June 2021Members' publicationsIt 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
06 May 2021VOICE Activity ReportsVOICE Activity report 2020. Read about the achievements and activities of the network over the last year. -
The EU can open the classroom door for children around the word: Plan International
05 May 2021How 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. -
Joint Agency Position on the Future of the Grand Bargain
29 April 2021Members' publicationsCare, 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. -
Reducing the humanitarian financing gap: review of progress since the report of the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing - ODI
27 April 2021In 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. -
Table rond Humanitaire : regards croisés sur l’insécurité: Agenda
30 March 2021Members' publicationsAgenda of the round-table on the impact of insecurity on humanitarian interventions. -
Adding to the evidence: the impact of sanctions and restrictive measures on humanitarian action
29 March 2021VOICE event reportsThis 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). -
Don't fail us now: Ireland’s vital opportunity to make a difference in North West Syria on the United Nations Security Council
25 March 2021Members' publicationsThis 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. -
GOAL Learning on repeat multi-purpose cash assistance in North West Syria
25 March 2021Members' publicationsIn 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
23 March 2021Questions and Answers on the New Humanitarian Partnership. -
The cost of conflict for Syria's children: World Vision Report
18 March 2021Members' publicationsAn 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. -
Community Protection Approach as best practice on result-based protection: We World Statement
17 March 2021Members' publicationsThe statement of WE World on winning the InterAction contest on result-based protection -
Global COVID-19 Response: DRC report
17 March 2021Members' publicationsThis 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. -
Anywhere But Syria: How 10 Years of Conflict Left Syria’s Displaced Children Without a Sense of Home
12 March 2021Members' publicationsTo 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. -
Note on International NGO (INGO)’s perspectives on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
03 March 2021The 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. -
Alliance2015 multi-country research: COVID-19 impacts on community resilience in the Global South
11 February 2021Members' publicationsThe 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. -
Environmental Migration: Analysis and Positioning Report - Secours Catholique
04 February 2021Members' publicationsThrough this document, drawing on the word of its international partners and national network, Secours Catholique – Caritas France sets out the context for people fleeing their living environments for environmental reasons (Part I), reasserts its assumptions about environmental conservation, international migration and the protection of vulnerable people (Part II), and defends the fundamental rights of environmental migrants along their migratory paths (Part III). -
Aid agencies make unprecedented and united call for Biden administration to revoke Ansar Allah terrorist designation
29 January 2021Members' publicationsTwenty-two aid organisations working in Yemen remain extremely concerned about the humanitarian consequences of the designation of Ansar Allah as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) which came into effect on 19 January. This designation comes at a time when famine is a very real threat to a country devastated by six years of conflict, and it must be revoked immediately. Any disruption to lifesaving aid operations and commercial imports of food, fuel, medicine and other essential goods will put millions of lives at risk.
