Humanitarian Assistance
An Examination of the Child's Right to Survival and Development in Nigeria – The Boko Haram Insurgency in Context
2023
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Hungarian Journal of Legal Studies
Anwuli Irene Ofuani-Sokolo and Hadiza Omoyemhe Okunrobo
Article 6(2) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child places an obligation on countries to ensure the survival and development of the child.…
States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security
2022
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Cambridge University Press
Joshua W. Busby
Under what circumstances might climate change lead to negative security outcomes? Over the past fifteen years, a rapidly growing applied field and research community on…
Food Aid and Violent Conflict: A Review and Empiricist’s Companion
2023
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Food Policy
Maximilian Koppenberg, Ashok K. Mishra, and Stefan Hirsch
Food aid presents a core component of humanitarian support for people incapable of meeting basic human needs and aims to bolster food security. However, some…
The Impact of Conflict on Food Security: Evidence from Household Data in Ethiopia and Malawi
2023
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Agriculture & Food Security
James Muriuki, Darren Hudson, and Syed Fuad
Violent conflicts threaten food security and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. While a more robust understanding of the causal relationship between food security and conflict…
Drought Exposure Decreases Altruism with Salient Group Identities as Key Moderator
2023
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Nature Climate Change
Stefan Döring and Jonathan Hall
Previous research on climate change impact regularly considers conflict outcomes, thereby disregarding cooperative behaviour such as altruism. Drought has the potential to fuel inter-ethnic cleavages,…
Project Highlights: Minimizing the Impacts of Drought on Livestock Herders by Protecting the Livelihoods of Vulnerable Food-insecure Households
2023
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Objective: To protect the livelihoods and improve the food security of vulnerable livestock-keeping and farming households.
Climate Migration Research and Policy Connections: Progress Since the Foresight Report
2023
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Frontier in Climate Magazine
Kees van der Geest, Alex de Sherbinin, François Gemenne, and Koko Warner
The Foresight report on Migration and Global Environmental Change was a first major effort to build the evidence base on the linkages between environmental changes…
Concurrent Crises in the Horn of Africa
2023
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Center for Strategic & International Studies
Jacob Kurtzer, Hareem Fatima Abdullah, and Sierra Ballard
The greater Horn of Africa, stretching from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, is experiencing its worst drought in four decades. A fourth consecutive…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Yemen
2023
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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Cedric H. de Coning, Florian Krampe, Minoo Koefoed, Kyungmee Kim, Asha Ali, Katongo Seyuba, and Kheira Tarif
Yemen is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world due to a combination of prolonged conflict, economic crisis and recurrent climate change-related…
The Challenges of Climate Financing in Conflict Contexts
2023
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European Institute of Peace
Sagal Abshir
Amidst a general global underfunding of climate action, fragile and conflict-affected states struggle to secure climate financing. This is the case even for countries where…
Human Migration and Natural Resources: Global Assessment of an Adaptive Complex System
2023
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UNEP
Saleem Ali, Dominic Kniveton, and Riyanti Djalante
As seen in the recent war in Ukraine and earlier wars and crises within the past decade in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Venezuela the…
Making Adaptation Work: Addressing the Compounding Impacts of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Conflict in the Near and Middle East--Summary for Policymakers
2023
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International Committee of the Red Cross
A new ICRC/Norwegian Red Cross policy brief "Making Adaptation Work" presents how the humanitarian consequences of environmental degradation and climate change are aggravated by armed…
Nigeria Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Environmental Degradation: The Current Situation
2022
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The Colloquium
Oluwatoyin Daramola
This study examined the connection between Internally Displaced Persons IDPs and environmental degradation as a result of the increasing number of IDPs. This study is…
Using Evaluation as a Learning Process in Post-Conflict Somalia
2019
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Journal of Somali Studies
Ibrahim A. Noor
The purpose of this study is to describe the nature of institutional evaluation in non-governmental social programs in Somalia. A large number of agencies that…
Trends in ICT for Relief and Development: from Mobile Data Collection to Data Driven Decision Making
2015
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2015 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC2015)
Barol Bothwell and Stephen Hellen
At CRS we employ information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) across the gamut of our programming-from our signature activities in emergency response, agriculture and…
The Role of an International Facilitating Service for Conflict Resolution
2006
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International Negotiation (Hague, Netherlands)
Herbert Kelman
The large numbers of deadly conflicts between ethnic and other identity groups around the world call for more extensive and systematic applications of interactive problem-solving…
The Flow of Management Practices: An Analysis of NGO Monitoring and Evaluation Dynamics
2013
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Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Jeffrery H Marshall and David Suarez
Which characteristics of NGOs are associated with the adoption of modern management practices and to what extent have those practices become standardized? Based on a…
The Ethical Tipping Points of Evaluators in Conflict Zones
2014
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American Journal of Evaluation
Colleen Duggan and Kenneth Bush
What is different about the conduct of evaluations in conflict zones compared to nonconflict zones—and how do these differences affect (if at all) the ethical…
Restoration of Damaged Land in Soceities Recovering from Conflict: The Case of Lebanon
2012
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Routledge
Aida Tamer-Chammas
Societies emerging from armed conflict face multiple social, political, and economic challenges. Natural resource management has been hailed as a tool for post-conflict peacebuilding because…
Post-Crisis Zimbabwe's Innovative Financing Mechanisms in the Social Sectors: A Practical Approach to Implementing the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States
2014
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International Health and Human Rights
Peter Salama, Wei Ha, Joel Negin, Samson Muradzikwa
By focusing on working with line ministries in non-contested sectors to determine local priorities rather than following global prescriptions, pooling funds to achieve scale rather…
Pioneers of Peace, Implementers of Humanitarianism: Learning from the Ambivalence of Peacebuilders
2020
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Lise Philipsen
This article nuances the popular explanation that peace interventions fail because of a culture of peacebuilders unwilling to engage with the local. As a foundational…
Participatory Monitoring and Evluation, Power Dynamics, and Stakholder Participation: Analysing Dynamics of Participation Between World Vision and Its Stakeholders in The Husalushaka Area Development Programme PM&E
2018
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University of Pretoria
Vongaishe T. Mujuru
Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is a concept meant to ensure the extensive involvement of project beneficiaries in all stages of the project or programme…
Land in Return, Reintegration, and Recovery Processes: Some Lessons From The Great Lakes Region of Africa
2009
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Humanitarian Policy Group
Christopher D. Huggins
The chapter describes some of the political challenges involved in managing the transition from emergency activities to longer-term 'developmental' policies in Rwanda and Burundi. In…
Mitigating the Environmental Impacts of Post-Conflict Assistance: Assessing USAID's Approach
2012
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Earthscan from Routledge
Charles Kelly
When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly…
Food Security in Protracted Crises: Building More Effective Policy Frameworks
2005
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Disasters
Margarita Flores, Yasmeen Khwaja, and Philip White
This paper considers the principal elements that underpin policy frameworks for supporting food security in protracted crisis contexts. It argues that maintaining the food entitlements…
Mapping the Field of International Peace Education Programs and Exploring Their Networked Impact on Peacebuilding
2019
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Resolution Quarterly
Jeffrey Pugh and Karen Ross
Conventional wisdom holds that international education builds cross-cultural capacity, and evaluations of peacebuilding interventions point to significant impacts. Yet, little scholarship links these fields or…
Land and natural disasters: guidance for practitioners
2010
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Daniel Fitzpatrick
The Guidelines provide a holistic approach to addressing land issues from the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster through early recovery and reconstruction phases. It…
Human Rights Education in Peacebuilding: A Look at How Far the Practice Has Come and Where it Needs to Head
2010
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law
Tracey Holland
The world’s peace-building and development organizations increasingly are incorporating human-rights frameworks into the myriad of activities now under their purview. Slower to develop, however, are…
From Theory to Practice: A Study of Remotely Managed Localised Humanitarian Action in Syria
2020
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Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ghassan Elkahlout and Kareem Elgibali
With unique strengths, problems, and challenges, localisation is an increasingly important modality for humanitarian relief. Based on the primary research including interviews with practitioners who…
Disaster Risk Reduction and Protracted Violent Conflict
2019
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German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Rodrigo Mena, Dorothea Hilhorst, and Katie Peters
This report is part of the project ‘When disasters and conflict collide: uncovering the truth’, a collaboration between the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation…