Coordination

Adapting humanitarian coordination – Challenges, innovations, and future directions for NGO-led mechanisms

This research analyses humanitarian coordination mechanisms in Myanmar, Sudan, Nigeria and Syria, and their implications for global and response level humanitarian coordination.

• Research and Studies

Nepal drought response 2025: Lessons, learning and reflection workshop report

This report reviews Nepal’s 2025 drought and cholera crisis in Madhesh Province, capturing lessons from the Nepal Red Cross Society’s first drought response operation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

HNPW 2026 report: Shaping the humanitarian reset

This report presents outcomes from the 12th Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, where global leaders outlined practical steps to shift power, resources, and decision‑making from global commitments to locally led action.

• Research and Studies

Préparation et la riposte aux épidémies en Afrique: Guide de décentralisation des capacités laboratoire

This Guideline outlines a structured approach to decentralization of laboratory capacity to facilitate timely case confirmation and interventions and limit the impact of outbreaks, especially in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

• Guidance and Tools

Epidemic preparedness and response in Africa: Guidelines for the decentralization of laboratory capacity

This Guideline outlines a structured approach to decentralization of laboratory capacity to facilitate timely case confirmation and interventions and limit the impact of outbreaks, especially in rural and hard-to-reach areas.

• Guidance and Tools

Real time evaluation: Myanmar earthquake response

This real-time evaluation examines the first three months of the response to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and lessons for future humanitarian action in complex emergency settings.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Private philanthropy for development (Third Edition)

This report provides new data and updated analyses of philanthropic funding towards low- and middle-income countries over the period 2020-2023 to offer a more comprehensive picture of philanthropy’s role in sustainable development.

• Research and Studies

Türkiye earthquakes lessons learned workshop report

This report captures key achievements, challenges, and lessons learned from IFRC and Turkish Red Cross' response to the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Synthesis and meta-analysis of findings from crisis-specific inter-agency humanitarian evaluations covering the period 2015-2025

The IAHE Synthesis exercise pulls together the findings from seven interagency humanitarian evaluations (IAHEs) covering nine different crisis contexts between 2015 – 2025.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Learning from Oxfam's partnership-centered response in Ukraine

This learning review examines Oxfam’s partnership-centered humanitarian response in Ukraine since 2022, designed to support local humanitarian leadership (LHL) and feminist principles.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Evaluation of Armenia WFP Country Strategic Plan 2019–2025

This evaluation serves accountability and learning purposes and informs the preparation of the next country strategic plan for WFP in Armenia.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

دعم المساعدة المتبادلة :ماذا تخبرنا الأدلة

في ظل الضغوط المتزايدة التي يواجهها القطاع الإنساني، يتناول هذا التقرير مفهوم المساعدة المتبادلة باعتباره سبيلاً نحو نظام أكثر واقعية واستجابة.

• Research and Studies

Apoyo a la ayuda recíproca: Lo que indican las evidencias

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

Executive summary - Supporting mutual aid: what the evidence tells us

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

Soutenir l’entraide : Ce que révèlent les éléments de preuve

As the humanitarian sector faces growing strain, this report looks at mutual aid as a pathway toward a more grounded and responsive system.

• Research and Studies

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us

This review examines the results experienced by mutual aid groups when they receive external support, and the changes experienced by international actors who provide mutual aid support.

• Research and Studies

Global humanitarian overview 2025

• Research and Studies

How to decide who receives what kind of support: Prioritising humanitarian resources

This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

• Research and Studies

Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to decide who receives what kind of support

This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning.

• Research and Studies

Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to think clearly about what matters most

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• Research and Studies