Framing country-based research on how actors can meet livelihood, recovery and development needs of vulnerable people during crises such as Covid-19
By 2030, more of the world’s poorest people will live in fragile, protracted crises, underscoring the need for integrated humanitarian, development, and peace (HDP) approaches to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. The OECD DAC’s nexus principle — “development where possible, humanitarian only when necessary” — is especially relevant in contexts like Covid‑19, which demand both immediate aid and longer‑term investments in resilience, health, and peacebuilding.
Development actors are scaling up in crisis‑affected contexts, complementing overstretched humanitarian resources but facing challenges in balancing support to central governments with direct service delivery to vulnerable populations.
This briefing paper is a formative evaluation resource. It frames forthcoming country studies in Cameroon, Somalia, and Bangladesh, examining six themes: crisis context, strategy and partnerships, coordination and planning, programming approaches, financing tools, and organisational issues. The research will inform policy and strengthen programming, with findings to be consolidated later into a synthesis report offering clear recommendations for meeting the long‑term needs of crisis‑affected communities.
Resource collections
- ALNAP focus topics
- Coordination
- Development Initiatives archival collection
- Ebola
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus
- Learning from crises (Natural hazards)
- Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
- Monitoring of humanitarian action
- Prioritisation
- Somalia humanitarian response
- Use of evaluation evidence