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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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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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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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As Local as Possible, as International as Necessary: Understanding capacity and complementarity in humanitarian action
Many international humanitarian organizations have decided to localize humanitarian action. However, the localization agenda has been interpreted and understood differently by actors at the international and local levels. This is due to a lack of clarity
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Fostering Local Partnerships in Remote Management and High-Threat Settings: Emerging lessons from child protection programming in Syria
Partnerships with local stakeholders are a core part of remote management of child protection efforts. In large parts of Syria, these partnerships constitute the only viable option to deliver sustainable child protection services. This study presents les
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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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Climate Change, Migration and Displacement: The need for a risk-informed and coherent approach
In 2016 alone, over 24 million people were displaced by unexpected climate-related disasters. It is commonly understood that there is a correlation between climate change and human mobility, however, the lack of evidence-based findings has hindered necess
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Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services: A synthesis of ELAN case studies
Cash transfers are playing an increasingly large role in humanitarian responses. Mobile money, using a mobile device to access financial services, is growing across the globe and humanitarian agencies are taking advantage of this trend to deliver cash tra
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Humanitarian Access and Local Organisations in Ukraine
There are an estimated four million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. With political instability in Kyiv, the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia and conflict between the Government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, int
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Women's Work: Mothers, children and the global childcare crisis
This publication highlights the hidden crisis the world is facing in childcare. Written by The Overseas Development Institute, the report identifies the severe shortcomings of current early childhood care and education programming in meeting the needs of