SOHS 2026

Adapting humanitarian coordination – Challenges, innovations, and future directions for NGO-led mechanisms

This research analyses humanitarian coordination mechanisms in Myanmar, Sudan, Nigeria and Syria, and their implications for global and response level humanitarian coordination.

• Research and Studies

World Giving Report: Donor insights (2026)

This Donor Insights Report tracks people’s attitudes and behaviours towards giving in more than 100 countries and territories around the world.

• Research and Studies

Private philanthropy for development (Third Edition)

This report provides new data and updated analyses of philanthropic funding towards low- and middle-income countries over the period 2020-2023 to offer a more comprehensive picture of philanthropy’s role in sustainable development.

• Research and Studies

Technical briefing Paper: The state of humanitarian procurement

Humanitarian procurement is a critical function in aid delivery, yet remains under-recognised and under-invested. This briefing paper outlines some of the main strategic challenges in procurement which prevent enhanced efficiencies and detrimentally impact humanitarian aid delivery.

• Research and Studies

Anti-racism and decolonising: a framework for organisations

his framework shares a holistic approach in addressing racism and decolonising the sector by focusing on all dimensions in an organisation.

• Guidance and Tools

Funding for global health research and development (R&D) in 2024

Key takeaways from the G-FINDER survey on funding for global health R&D in 2024.

• Research and Studies

Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) Risk Mapping & Mitigation Package for the Global Shelter Cluster

A practical, cost-effective tool places preventing sexual exploitation and abuse at centre of humanitarian programming

• Guidance and Tools

State of disunion: The impact of US funding cuts on global health R&D

This report documents the changes made by the US government in health and science at home and abroad and estimates their implications for global health R&D.

• Research and Studies

The role of the Afghan diaspora in mobilising support to emergency and recovery efforts

• Research and Studies

The humanitarian–development–peace nexus and UN 2.0: A field practitioner’s perspective on bridging silos for humanitarian impact

This article examines the urgency of integrated approaches across the humanitarian–development–peace (HDP) nexus in the case of Mali, as well discussing barriers and recommendations.

• Commentaries

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.

The report draws on medical data, patient testimonies and first-hand medical witnessing to demonstrate that what has been branded as “aid distribution” is in fact a system of institutionalised starvation and dehumanisation.

• Research and Studies

Diaspora humanitarian engagement in Democratic Republic of the Congo real-time review

A real-time review of how the Congolese diaspora is driving humanitarian action in eastern DRC—and what it will take to unlock its full potential through stronger partnerships and coordination.

• Research and Studies

Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) synergies in Sida’s humanitarian crisis analyses 2025

This brief gives an overview of how Sida works with HDP synergies in the 30 largest humanitarian crises, based on the Humanitarian Crises Analysis (HCAs) 2025 and identifies opportunities for maximizing aid impact in these contexts.

• Research and Studies

Humanitarians and the truth in Afghanistan

In this long-form essay, Hugo Slim argues that humanitarian agencies are suppressing the truth about the Taliban’s persecution of women and girls.

• Commentaries

Why humanitarians must act to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza

The article calls on humanitarian organisations to move beyond neutrality and aid delivery in Gaza, urging stronger advocacy, legal action, and collective strategies to challenge the ongoing blockade.

• Commentaries

“A planet shaker”: Educational impacts of USAID’s dismantling

This article considers how USAID closures have transformed education globally.

• Research and Studies

Rebalancing the Reset: Reflections on a 33% increase to country-based pooled funds (CBPFs)

This paper offers constructive recommendations to ensure that any expansion of CBPFs enhances—not replaces—the broader system of pooled funding, direct donor partnerships, and local initiatives.

• Commentaries

The earlier the better? Cash transfers for drought response in Niger

This paper examines the impact of varying the timing of cash transfers in response to drought in Niger, with the results showing that large early transfers yield greater net benefits on economic welfare and psychological well-being before and during the lean season compared to a traditional humanitarian lean season response.

• Research and Studies

Cadre de prévention primaire pour la protection de l’enfance dans l’action humanitaire

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools

Marco de prevención primaria para la protección de la niñez en acción humanitaria

This Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on designing and implementing programming that prevents harm to children at the population level in crisis and fragile settings

• Guidance and Tools