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Blog Post
June 04, 2021
Since March of 2020, COVID-19 changed most aspects of life as we knew it, from our personal day-to-day activities to the systems, processes, and structures that keep the global economy interconnected and moving. This included pharmaceutical production and distribution, where anecdotal evidence ...
Blog Post
May 21, 2021
COVID-19 is compounding humanitarian crises across the globe and exposing the current aid model as ill-adapted to support the frontline response. We have argued that applying an area-based model to humanitarian coordination would help tailor crisis response to the priorities and capacities of local ...
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May 14, 2021
Coordination is essential to effective humanitarian action. However, the current system prioritizes large international aid agencies over local frontline actors and governments, and fragmented, technical sectors over a holistic, people-centered approach. We need a new model: an area-based model.
Blog Post
March 30, 2021
It is easy to critique humanitarian organizations for inefficiencies and other flaws in their coordination functions. But deeper examination of issues such as media exposure and incentives to coordinate makes it clearer that, given their current funding model, their actions may be rational instituti...
Blog Post
February 19, 2021
In every episode of the Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast, we ask our guests what they would do if they had millions of dollars—or perhaps a magic wand—to transform the way the world responds to people in need. Now, as a wrap-up to our first season, host Heba Aly puts these ideas to three peop...
Blog Post
February 11, 2021
Past humanitarian reform agendas have continually emphasised the need for humanitarian response to be locally owned. But for two decades, attempts to systematically elevate the representation, participation, and power of local actors have fallen short; donor governments still have an incentive to ch...
Blog Post
February 10, 2021
In October 2020, the Center for Global Development—in partnership with African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the African Leaders Malaria Alliance—hosted a high-level roundtable on regional health product manufacturing in Africa. This blog...