Focus topics

A tale of two borders: Double humanitarian standards in refugee reception

This report explores how local organisations and aid workers organised the provision of aid differently depending on what border they operated at, and the extent to which the two responses differed during the period between 2021 and 2024.

• Research and Studies

What happened when resilience-building projects closed: Stories of change from Chad

Retrospective learning and resilience-building in Chad – what happened five years after a project introduced climate-smart agriculture?

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Creating resilient systems: Greening the humanitarian supply chain whilst promoting localisation

This report examines the intersection of environmental sustainability and localisation within humanitarian supply chains, focusing on the challenges, opportunities and best practices for operationalising these two agendas.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Webinar: From listening to practice: Traditional knowledge and disaster preparedness | HNPW 2025

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms [Webinar]

• Research and Studies

Key action areas for addressing extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific: Lessons from regional platforms

• Research and Studies

Bez wykluczeń: Dobre praktyki antydyskryminacyjne dla sektora humanitarnego

A practical guide to anti-discrimination in humanitarian work, addressing key forms of exclusion and inequality.

• Guidance and Tools

Breaking boundaries: Local & national actors’ engagement in the HDP nexus

• Research and Studies

Qualitative guide to run focus group discussions (FGD) with communities and local authorities on early warning systems

• Guidance and Tools

Refugees with disabilities: Lessons from the Russian war in Ukraine (Webinar)

Webinar on the current situation of Ukranian refugees with disabilities and the types of assistance provided to and by them

• Commentaries

(مـلـخـص تـنـفـيـذي) تجاوز الحدود: مشاركة الفاعلين المحليين والوطنيين في ترابط العمل الإنساني والتنمية والسلام.

• Research and Studies

Breaking boundaries: local and national actors’ engagement in the humanitarian–development–peace nexus

• Research and Studies

Vamos rompiendo barreras: los actores locales y nacionales en el nexo humanitario-desarrollo-paz (HDP) (Resumen ejecutivo)

• Research and Studies

Repousser les limites : l'engagement des acteurs locaux et nationaux dans le nexus humanitaire-développement-paix (Résumé exécutif)

• Research and Studies

Survival in a war zone: Mutual aid, local solidarity and beyond - Case study Ukraine

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

Виживання у зоні військових дій: взаємодопомога, місцева солідарність та інше (також доступно французькою та англійською)

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

Survivre dans une zone de guerre : l'entraide, la solidarité locale et au-delà

This report examines mutual aid mechanisms in Ukraine and proposes a series of recommendations to address certain challenges.

• Research and Studies

“We barely have time to celebrate our wins … or to process what we’ve lost”

• Research and Studies

Empowering youth in humanitarian action in Ukraine: Lessons learned and pathways forward

• Research and Studies

Beyond protection: Designing intersectional humanitarian response to LGBTQI+ displacement in Poland

• Research and Studies