This paper reviews the core issues facing humanitarian decision-makers on who, where and what to prioritise in response planning. We provide a framework for making these decisions more ethical, transparent and participatory. We cover two main aspects of resource allocation: scope setting and prioritisation. These are interlinked but separate processes: scope setting is the act of deciding what falls within a prioritisation exercise versus what is deemed ‘out of scope’; prioritisation is the act of weighing different values and objectives against costs and ranking them.
You can read the web version of the report and download specific chapters here: Prioritising humanitarian resources: how to decide who receives what kind of support or download the full PDF below.
