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Report by the Director-General 22 May 2022
General tips: 1- Make sure to assign a staff member to be the focal point to support persons with disabilities in every location/project. (The focal point should know the evacuation procedures). 2- The focal point should coordinate the evacuation and support persons with disabilities in case of an ... more

Humanitarian Needs Assessment: The Good Enough Guide

Currion, P. The Assessment Capacities Project and Emergency Capacity Building Project (2014) C2
Needs assessment is essential for programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and accountability, however needs assessment is still a critical weakness of humanitarian response. Organisations need to improve how they do assessments. The Assessmen ... more
Over 244,000 displaced people remain in camps or camp-like situations in Kachin, Shan, Rakhine and Kayin states. Children make up at least 50 per cent of this population, while women and„Myanmar: 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview - Myanmar“. Rel ... more
This document is produced by the Humanitarian Country Team and the United Nations Resident Coordinator’s Office in Mozambique, with the support of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Huma ... more
Context and impact of the crisis A year after the signing of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS),1 the ceasefire holds in most parts of the country. Armed conflict between State security forces and opposition armed groups has been contained to a sma ... more
In 2021, the humanitarian community continued to support those in need, placing protection at the centre of its response. Learning from and building on past efforts, humanitarian actors will continu ... more
2020 was a year like no other. Amidst on-going humanitarian crises, largely fuelled by conflict and violence but also driven by the effects of climate change – such as the largest locust infestation in a generation – the world had to contend wit ... more

Humanitarian Bulletin Ethiopia - Issue #6

OCHA; Reliefweb; Humanitarian Bulletin Ethiopia OCHA; Reliefweb; Humanitarian Bulletin Ethiopia (2020) C2
Issue #6| 23 March– 05 April 2020

Training Manual: Gender Leadership in Humanitarian Action

Fiona Gell, Eliza Hilton, Tess Dico-Young European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) and Oxfam (2017) C1
Humanitarian emergencies result in a breakdown of critical health-care services and often make vulnerable communities dependent on external agencies for care. In resource-constrained settings, this may occur against a backdrop of extreme poverty, ma ... more
Manual Logistical Management of Humanitarian Supply The flood of relief supplies that arrive in the aftermath of large-scale disasters often poses serious logistic and management problems for national authorities. SUMA is a tool for the management ... more
Anyone planning to conduct humanitarian work in areas of Africa where outbreaks of Ebola virus disease are known to occur needs to be familiar with how Ebola virus is transmitted. This leaflet recommends the precautions that ... more
You can download the handbook, worksheets and quick reference cards from the website! The HHEAT is an ethical analysis tool designed to help humanitarian healthcare workers make ethical decisions. It consists of 3 components: (1) a summary card hig ... more
2,202,059* South Sudanese refugees in the region as of 31 October 2019 (preand post-Dec 2013 caseload). 65,669* South Sudanese refugee’s arrivals so far in 2019, with 4,389 refugee arrivals in October 2019. 297,135 Refugees in South Sudan and 1.46 million IDPs with 12% inside six UNMISS Prot ... more
Les Standards Minimums de la Protection de l’Enfant (SMPE) définis en 2012 par le GTPE présentent 26 normes nécessaires pour assurer une protection adéquate des enfants dans les situations d’urgence.
On October 6, 11 cases of Cholera were confirmed positive in one neighbourhood of the capital Sana’a. No confirmed cases have been reported in other locations in Yemen. UNICEF, together with WHO and Health authorities, have initiated a rapid response setting up a treatment centre as well as dispat ... more
The refugee exodus from South Sudan continues at an alarming rate, even as the crisis is entering its fifth year. Close to 2.4 million South Sudanese have fled to neighbouring countries mostly to Uganda—the largest host country in sub-Saharan Africa—followed by Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democr ... more
The Humanitarian News Digest is a monthly compilation of links to reports, web stories, press releases, and other public products published online by organizations with humanitarian operations in M ... more
UNHCR and its partners implement interventions focusing on adolescent girls and boys, including:
▪ Formation and capacity building of adolescent girls and boys’ clubs as peer groups for awareness raising, and SGBV prevention and response mechanisms.
▪ Community based protection activ ... more
There has been a significant reduction in the number of displaced people - with 73,296 people currently hosted in 70 accommodation centres; down from 142,327 people the week before. A total of 4,979 cholera cases were recorded in Beira, Dondo, Buzi and Nhamatanda and the death toll has reached eigh ... more
The floods caused by the Tropical Cyclone IDAI has affected 3 million people in the Republics of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe leaving 839 people dead, and this figure continued to rise as the rains stopped and water subsided. To date, over 201,476 people (Table 1) have been displaced and about 31 ... more

IMAP Statement on sexual and reproductive health services in humanitarian settings

IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) (2018) C2
From choice, a world of possibilities
In addition to the ongoing humanitarian emergencies in the country, the COVID-19 pandemic poses a potential monumental social and economic threat to Nigeria, with a devastating knock on effect for the most vulnerable population in the BAY states who ... more
This guidance note on Syria is the first in a series of comprehensive Q&As, which aims to give practical guidance on how to comply with EU sanctions when providing humanitarian aid, in particular medical assistance, to fight the coronavirus pandemic ... more
After eight years of armed conflict in the east of the country, the Russian Federation started a military offensive in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The impact of this war has been devastating. It has so far caused 16,200 civilian casualties and destroyed key infrastructure, such as hospitals, school ... more
This document is an addendum to the Revised Supplementary Appeal issued in April 2022, reflecting UNHCR’s updated financial requirements for the Ukraine situation for March to December 2022. UNHCR is appealing for an additional $170 million for ac ... more
The companion Handbook on Humanitarian Access presents the normative framework pertaining to humanitarian access in situations of armed conflict, and therefore serves as a useful reference source fo ... more
As part of a wider organisational undertaking to better capture and communicate the effectiveness of its work, Oxfam developed an evaluative method to assess the quality of targeted humanitarian responses. This method uses a global ... more
The Joint Response Plan sets out a comprehensive programme shaped around three strategic objectives – deliver protection, provide life-saving assistance and foster social cohesion. The Plan covers all humanitarian sectors and addresses key cross-c ... more
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world. Nearly four years of conflict and severe economic decline are driving the country to the brink of famine and exacerbating needs in all sectors. An estimated 80 per cent of the populati ... more
The 2018 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) aimed to assist 10.5 million people with direct assistance and 11.2 million people with improved access to basic services. In an effort to meet humanitarian ... more
Across Zimbabwe, 7 million people in urban and rural areas are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, compared to 5.5 million in August 2019. Since the launch of the Revised Humanitarian Appeal ... more
Almost eight years of active fighting have had profound consequences on the lives of millions of people in the conflict-affected Donetska and Luhanska oblasts of eastern Ukraine. An estimated 2.9 million people are projected to need humanitarian ass ... more
A guide for effective aid
With its expert practical advice on security in situations of armed conflict, this updated set of guidelines will prove invaluable to humanitarian personnel working at the operational level. Following on from the success of the first edition, publis ... more
The cluster approach is a mechanism that helps to address identified gaps in response and enhance the quality of humanitarian action
This manual is for the beginner/intermediate and advanced EHA courses run by Channel Research on behalf of ALNAP. It is supported by a course specific set of case studies and exercises and by a bibliography of evaluation references
A Toolbox of Conflict Sensitive Indicators. This toolbox adapts a sample of 15 indicators from the SPHERE Project's Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response to be even mo ... more
The report offers an overview of the progress the humanitarian sector has made and the obstacles it has faced over the past 10 years. Accountability is no longer just a fashionable term, there is now a shared understanding of what it takes to be acc ... more
USD$ 28 million allocated from UN Central Emergency Fund to assist people affected by Boko Haram’s insurgency. Boko Haram, insecurity exert misery in Cameroon’s Far North Region. Millions of people in Ebola-affected countries risk serious food shortages during the June-August lean ... more
Ce document donne la compréhension de la situation humanitaire au Sénégal, partagée par les acteurs humanitaires du pays, et reflète la planification conjointe de la réponse humanitaire.

Security to go: a risk management toolkit for humanitarian aid agencies

Davis, J.; and L. Reilly European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2015) C1
In this review, the editors will investigate the impact of eight WASH interventions in preventing (reducing the risk of) and controlling outbreaks in LMIC, with particular focus on three diseases of current concern to the response community – cholera, Ebola, and Hepatitis E. Additionally, we will ... more
Conceived as part of the CWS-A/P project on regional security and risk management, this book presents a collection of testimonies from aid workers in some of the most insecure and volatile environments in the world. The participants recount a broad array of security incidents, such as kidnappings, ... more
The aim of this paper is to map and critically analyse evidence of good practice in prevention and response to gender-based violence (GBV) in humanitarian contexts which can support humanitarian pra ... more
How do local authorities and humanitarian agencies collaborate when refugees are in transit? An IIED-supported research project is looking at the transit refugee response in Croatia.
At the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul in May 2016, leaders made over 3,700 commitments to advance the Agenda for Humanity. In their first self-reports against these commitments, 142 stakeholders described the efforts they made from June to De ... more
Humanitarian emergencies, regardless of type and cause, have a number of common risk factors for communicable diseases inextricably linked to excess risk of morbidity and mortality which can come from vaccine–preventable diseases (VPDs). The reduc ... more

Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis Enters Another Year

Andrea Carboni Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset (2018) C1
Four years after the Houthi takeover of the capital Sana’a and the beginning of the Saudi-led military intervention, there is little to suggest that Yemen will find peace in the near future. As of January 2018, the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions, causing wid ... more
VADEMECUM | This Vademecum is intended to provide a benchmark for aid workers—whether working in the field or at a strategic level—in particular concerning the formulation and implementation of programmes of prevention or response to humanitarian ... more
Mounting an effective international humanitarian response to a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) event, especially if the response is undertaken on an ad hoc basis, would be extremely difficult and would pose many risks to the res ... more

Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities

Age and Disability Consortium CBM International, HelpAge International,and Handicap International (2018)
The Standard consists of nine key inclusion standards, and seven sets of sector-specific inclusion standards for protection – water, sanitation and hygiene, food security and livelihoods, nutrition, shelter, settlement and household items, health and education. Each standard comes with key actions ... more
March - December 2018 The Government of Bangladesh has kept its borders open to Rohingya refugees and leads the humanitarian response. The people of Bangladesh continue to show tremendous generosity and hospitality in the face of a massive influx. ... more
Humanitarian emergencies and crises (Humanitarian emergencies and crises) are large-scale events that may result in the breakdown of health care systems and society, forced displacement, death, and ... more
Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. The 2018 Sphere Handbook builds on the latest developments and learning in the human ... more