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Blog Post
July 07, 2021
The global scale of the pandemic has not only placed new constraints on the current humanitarian financing model. It has also revealed, once more, chronic difficulties to pre-arrange resources in the face of predictable needs and to channel resources efficiently to the frontlines. As the system face...
Multimedia
July 02, 2021
The international humanitarian system provides a global public service but is unpredictable and haphazard. Donors can improve efficiency and effectiveness in three ways: establishing a multi-year common replenishment model for protracted and predictable crises, rebalancing country-level pooled mecha...
CGD NOTES
June 22, 2021
Humanitarian nonprofit organizations, from small, volunteer groups, to international NGOs with thousands of paid staff, operate in a patchwork of intersecting, competing and reinforcing missions. They share a common objective: to protect the lives of vulnerable people in crisis. When organizations f...
Blog Post
June 15, 2021
We’re facing a “make or break” moment to reset commitments to humanitarian reform. The Asia-Pacific region has proven itself a unique case with increasing national and regional leadership; begging the question, how do global ideas for humanitarian reform apply in this context?
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 ...
Multimedia
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...