Focus topics

"Men have the power to say everything, women don't." Women’s perceptions of cash and voucher assistance in Maiduguri’s outskirts

• Research and Studies

Locally-Led Responses to Cash and Voucher Assistance in the Middle East and North Africa: Barriers, progress and opportunities

• Research and Studies

Community-Led Innovation - Three Years of Learning

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Funding cuts force WFP to slash food assistance as one-in-two Haitians go hungry

• Research and Studies

Guide on International Justice Mechanisms for Humanitarian Actors working with the Rohingya

• Guidance and Tools

"I feel ashamed to ask for humanitarian aid." Humanitarian journeys of refugees from Ukraine in Poland, Moldova, and Romania

• Research and Studies

Organising towards a practice of decoloniality, refugee/IDP leadership, and power redistribution in humanitarian aid: experiences from inside the international humanitarian aid sector

The article calls for decolonising humanitarian aid by shifting power to refugee- and IDP-led groups, exposing how Western-led INGOs maintain colonial hierarchies under the guise of diversity and inclusion

• Commentaries

Indirect costs for local and national partners: A mapping of the current policies and practices of UN agencies and INGOs (June 2023)

This updated mapping tracks progress on overhead funding for local humanitarian partners, showing new policies and commitments by UN agencies, INGOs, and Red Cross organisations since 2022, and serving as both a reference and accountability tool.

• Guidance and Tools

"Keep in touch with the people." Perceptions of aid in Ukraine's changing context

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The Humanitarian Leader: Migrants’ trust in humanitarian action: Local lessons, global insights

• Research and Studies

“Only a woman can understand another woman.” Perceptions on aid in Afghanistan after the bans on women aid workers

• Research and Studies

Chatbots in humanitarian contexts

• Research and Studies

“All work on climate change must include the voice of women” Feminist perspectives from the frontlines of the climate crisis

• Research and Studies

Les jeunes prennent la parole: Leurs besoins et leurs attentes envers la réponse humanitaire

• Research and Studies

Accountability to Affected Populations (AAP) Guide - UNFPA Afghanistan

• Guidance and Tools

Les jeunes prennent la parole

• Research and Studies

Strengthening social protection mechanisms in South Ari Woreda, Ethiopia

Provides insights into social protection mechanisms in South Ari, Ethiopia

• Research and Studies

Community Engagement in Humanitarian and Development Action: Barriers, Enablers and Good Practice

• Research and Studies

Explain: The humanitarian-development-peace nexus [2023]

Explain: The humanitarian-development-peace nexus [2023 version]

• Research and Studies

Explain: Accountability to affected populations - Putting people at the centre [2023]

Explain: Accountability to affected populations - Putting people at the centre [2023 version]

• Research and Studies