The purpose of the report is to provide an overview of Norwegian humanitarian assistance and support in fragile states, to serve as a basis for planned country- and thematic evaluations.
The methodology has two elements. First, main policies and priorities for humanitarian assistance in fragile states are identified through a careful reading of the core documents, including the 2008 and 2018 humanitarian strategies. Second, global Norwegian humanitarian assistance is mapped together with a more detailed analysis of aid streams to three selected countries, Palestine, Somalia and South-Sudan. For each country Norwegian and global aid are both mapped with a focus on the allocations between humanitarian aid and other sectors, as well as the channels of support.
The findings reflect that the sectoral distribution of aid, and the channels of support are relatively broad categories, which implies that core policy changes are not always reflected in the data. This is a main limitation, which, in turn, opens up for thematic evaluations in the future of core topics, such as the coordination of humanitarian and long-term assistance and the localisation agenda.