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Everyone's Doing Stuff, but Nobody's Accountable: Will Grand Bargain 2.0 set us right?
The international humanitarian community is gearing up for a reset of the Grand Bargain. The review is on cue. Over the past couple of decades, new humanitarian reform initiatives have succeeded one another every five years or so. The challenge for negoti
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Syria case study
The civil war in Syria began in March 2011 and has become one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world. In 2018, there were 5.8 million children and young people in need of education assistance in the country. Direct attacks on schools and educatio
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Democratic Republic of the Congo case study
At the time of writing, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is considered to be undergoing one of the world’s most complex and protracted crises, with multiple armed conflicts and outbreaks of Ebola in certain areas. The Congolese authorities has very
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Iraq case study
At the time of writing, estimates show that 2.6 million people need humanitarian assistance in the education sector in Iraq. One of the reasons for this is the destruction of schools during the multiple waves of violence over the last decade, but overcrow
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Strengthening Coordinated Education Planning and Response in Crises: Global analysis framework
Access to education is a central need for millions of children and young people affected by emergencies and protracted crises. Supporting education in crisis contexts involves multiple actors with different mandates, missions, organizational structures, a
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Child Poverty in Africa: An SDG emergency in the making
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envisage an end to extreme poverty for ‘all people everywhere’. That goal is drifting out of reach for one group of people in one region: children in Africa. On current trends, 305 million African children – t
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Localising Emergency Preparedness and Response Through Partnerships
In recent years, localization of aid, partnership and capacity building have become increasingly important within the humanitarian sector. This has led many international actors to reflect on their own organizational structure and their approach to partne
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Local Humanitarian Action in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Capacity and complementarity
During the last decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced numerous crises resulting from civil war and conflicts in neighboring countries, but also natural disasters and pandemics. As a result, it is estimated that 12,8 million people
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Rethinking Capacity and Complementarity for a More Local Humanitarian Action
To better inform humanitarian action that is as local as possible and as international as necessary, Humanitarian Policy Group launched a research project on capacity and complementarity in 2017. The goal of this project was to gain understanding on how c
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Localising Protection Responses in Conflicts: Challenges and opportunities
In conflict zones across the world, civilians are adopting a variety of strategies and utilizing various capabilities to try to mitigate the impact of violence and abuse. They also make efforts to repair the damage done to their lives and livelihoods. How
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Holding the Keys: Humanitarian access and local organisations
Humanitarian action will never be effective if it does not reach those who need it the most. However, international humanitarian organizations often struggle to gain access to areas affected by conflict or crisis. In order to mitigate this problem, intern
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Localisation: Opportunities and challenges for protection in disaster response
The Localisation and Protection initiative is a collaboration between the Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG), the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) and the Australian Red Cross. The research explores the relationship between localization and protection and f