The State of the Humanitarian System report is based on a huge body of evidence including exclusive research with crisis-affected people and practitioners. It addresses key questions about performance and effectiveness in humanitarian action.
This edition explores how the humanitarian system is performing around the following themes:
- health, refugee crises, active conflict, reducing mortality and averting hunger
- the demographics of staff and contractors at humanitarian agencies
- compliance with humanitarian laws and standards
- funding needs and resource-efficiency
- the affect of and response to COVID-19
- does the system cause harm?
- is the system becoming more locally led?
- can crisis-affected people hold system actors accountable, and can they influence the decisions that affect them?
It is presented in three sections:
What is the system? What is it achieving? How is it working?
Below you can read individual chapters of the report online, or download the full report. You will also find shorter resources to help you navigate the wealth of evidence and data available in the report.
Watch Alice Obrecht present the key findings from the 2018-2022 research
Latest commentary and reflections on system performance
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