Focus topics

Improving the visibility of local and national actors in humanitarian aid data

This report demonstrates how combining IATI and OCHA’s 3W (Who does What Where) data can make Somali local organisations more visible in humanitarian aid, strengthening trust, localisation, and accountability.

• Research and Studies

Between a pandemic and a hard place: Durable solutions elusive for Iraq’s most vulnerable

• Research and Studies

Disaster during a pandemic: Lessons from the 2020 flooding in South Japan

This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected both the preparedness and the recovery for the 2020 flood response in Japan.

• Research and Studies

Loop's learning about receiving sensitive stories

5 key learnings and Loops resulting action

• Commentaries

Localization is Self-Determination

• Research and Studies

Localization is self-determination

• Research and Studies

Strengthening participation, representation and leadership of local and national actors in IASC humanitarian coordination mechanisms

• Guidance and Tools

Local humanitarian action during Covid-19: findings from a diary study

• Research and Studies

The Nine Basic Requirements for Meaningful and Ethical Children's Participation

• Guidance and Tools

Investing in Inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) - Lessons for disability and older age inclusion from the Central Sulawesi response

• Research and Studies

The Refugee Engagement Forum (REF) Good Practice Study

Listen and learn: The link between language and accountability for the future of the Grand Bargain

• Commentaries

AAP Assessment, Borno State Nigeria

Improving quality humanitarian funding through the Grand Bargain 2.0

• Commentaries

Localisation for who? Pacific resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Commentaries

Localized communication minimizes the impact of Ebola in DRC

• Research and Studies

Resilience-focused case management: A manual for frontline workers

This manual supports case workers to adopt a resilience-focused approach in the provision of protection services for children and adults who have experienced traumatic events.

• Guidance and Tools

FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND THE HUMANITARIAN-DEVELOPMENT NEXUS: A ROUNDTABLE ANTHOLOGY

• Research and Studies

Accountability to affected people: Stuck in the weeds.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Compendium of good practices for a greener humanitarian response

• Guidance and Tools