Focus topics

Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 - The cruel math of aid cuts

This GHO Special Edition reflects collective responses to the devastating funding cuts to the humanitarian sector in 2025.

• Research and Studies

Quality, accountability and safeguarding (QAS) in action: A smart guide for aid actors

This Guide ‘QAS in Action’ aims to support a holistic and contextualised application of Quality, Accountability, and Safeguarding (QAS) from a people-centered perspective, for anyone dedicated to supporting communities’ life with dignity in a transparent and safe manner.

• Guidance and Tools

Reckoning and renewal: A future-ready humanitarian system

• Research and Studies

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

This study evaluates the effect of all USAID funding on adult and child mortality over the past two decades and forecasts the future effect of its defunding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

The humanitarian research and innovation landscape - 2024 report

This report is an overview of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of Elrha’s Global Prioritisation Exercise (GPE). The GPE aims to improve outcomes for people affected by crisis and address gaps in knowledge about how humanitarian research and innovation (HRI) operates.

• Research and Studies

Strategic roadmap 2025-2027: A hybrid approach to risk-informed and people-centred cash programming in Asia and the Pacific Region

• Guidance and Tools

Navigating the spectrum: a methodology to compare the impact of humanitarian action

Locally led action is more than an intervention modality.

• Research and Studies

AI for Social Good Webinar 5: Harness AI for efficient, localised humanitarian action

This webinar, hosted by PoliSync and the CALP Network, explored how AI can strengthen humanitarian response in disaster and conflict settings and highlights the importance of ensuring equitable access for local actors and applying AI in an ethical and responsible way.

• Commentaries

Evaluation of Islamic Relief’s field office complaints and feedback policy and its application

Evaluation of Islamic Reliefs field office complaints and feedback policy and its application

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Localisation Evidence Brief: Strengthening localisation in Uganda’s refugee response

A learning brief looking at localisation in Uganda's refugee response.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Agroecology: Summary of relevant experiences

This report introduces “agroecology”, bridging theory and field experience to frame CESVI’s work on resilient food systems and sustainable, community-led development.

• Research and Studies

The primary prevention framework for child protection in humanitarian action, revised edition - 2024 (ENG)

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools

Cadre de prévention primaire pour la protection de l’enfance dans l’action humanitaire

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools

Marco de prevención primaria para la protección de la niñez en acción humanitaria

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools

إطار الوقاية األولية

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools

Aid sector in transition: Challenges, ethics and adaptation

This latest Practice Paper by CWSA unpacks real time impacts of the shifting aid landscape across the Global South

• Research and Studies

تقر ر موجز عن تقييم حالات الطوارئ على ال ستوى ال ؤسس لاستجابة البرنامج ف أوكراني ا

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Informe resumido de la evaluación de la intervención de emergencia coordinada a nivel central realizada por el PMA en Ucrania

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Rapport succinct de l’évaluation de l’intervention d’urgence majeure coordonnée au niveau central menée par le PAM en Ukraine

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Corporate emergency evaluation of WFP’s response in Ukraine

The evaluation assessed WFP’s efforts to meet the needs of the most food-insecure people and its adherence to humanitarian principles; its strategic positioning in the humanitarian landscape; its contribution to the emergency response; and its efficiency in implementation.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned