Currently, the majority of humanitarian aid goes to protracted crises. From a Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus perspective a more long-term, development-oriented view is required to better support the people living their lives amidst such adversity. Assistance should aim to decrease the occurrence of periodic shocks and enhance communities’ capacity to withstand them, reducing their reliance on humanitarian response.
The 2019 ‘DAC Recommendation on the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus’ codified this approach as ‘prevention always, development wherever possible, humanitarian action when necessary’.
This report provides insight into how implementing agencies are currently bringing this into practice, revealing a multiplicity of dilemma’s and innovative ways in which agencies overcome them.