Prioritisation

Women's Humanitarian Leadership Fund: Lessons on power, trust and impact

This report captures the Women's Humanitarian Leadership Funds learning journey on localisation and women's humanitarian leadership enabled through trust-based, flexible funding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

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

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

This paper sets out a clear model to understand humanitarian decision-making spaces and influences, and proposes constructive approaches to inevitable dilemmas and trade-offs.

• Research and Studies

Episode 4: Damian Lilly

• Commentaries

Assessing the impact of U.S. funding cuts on communities and humanitarian response

Case studies from South Sudan and Mali

• Research and Studies

Assessing the impact of US funding cuts on communities and humanitarian response: Case studies from South Sudan and Mali

Looking at Mali and South Sudan country contexts, the report examines the effects of prioritisation decisions.

• Research and Studies

The fading of the Humanitarian Reset

Analysis of the progress and obstacles to the Humanitarian Reset and a fair share model for international humanitarian budgets.

• Research and Studies

Cash assistance: How design influences value for money

This document presents a short version of the Value for Money (VfM) guidance utilised at Mercy Corps.

• Guidance and Tools

The role of the Afghan diaspora in mobilising support to emergency and recovery efforts

• Research and Studies

When the system cannot hold: Designing an antifragile humanitarianism

Written from the perspective of a humanitarian practitioner, this paper argues that current structures repeatedly fail under volatility, and proposes four design principles for an antifragile humanitarian system.

• Research and Studies

Repositioning power: Strategic pathways to locally led humanitarian operations in East Africa

Evidence-based policy brief showcasing East African thought leaders' insights into concrete pathways for locally led humanitarian action.

• Research and Studies

Lessons for research funders from locally led action research on women’s empowerment among pastoralists

This brief shares lessons from locally led action research on women’s empowerment among pastoralists in Nigeria and South Sudan.

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) 2026: Discussion Paper

This proposal charts a path for the HPC during a time of incredible uncertainty, enabling humanitarian partners to carry out a lighter HPC that still produces critical shared understanding, focus, advocacy and action.

• Guidance and Tools

On the brink: The devastating toll of aid cuts on people forced to flee

This report details the reductions in the overall scale of UNHCR activities and workforce by around one-third following the severe funding shortfalls in 2025, and the impact those have had on people forced to flee.

• Research and Studies

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

This study quantifies the potential epidemiological impacts on the tuberculosis burden attributable to international reductions in funding.

• Evaluations and Lessons Learned

Executive summary: Vorausschauend handeln - Humanitärer Hilfe gerecht verteilen im Zeitalter des Klimawandels

Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

• Research and Studies

Synthèse: Le tournant de l’anticipation - Distribuer l’aide humanitaire à l’ère du changement climatique

Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

• Research and Studies

The anticipatory turn: Distributing aid in the age of climate change

Can anticipatory action help solve the problem of humanitarian climate crisis? Iida-Maria Tammi analyses the implications of the 'anticipatory turn'.

• Research and Studies