The intensity of the violence and severity of the humanitarian conditions in #Gaza stand out amid other recent hard-to-access contexts for the disparity between the scale of needs and the size of the response. Read our new report here humanitarianoutcomes.org/projects/core/… #Yemen #Tigray #Sudan

📣 Martin Kimani of Kenya 🇰🇪 has been named the new Executive Director of NYU’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), effective June 3! Amb. Kimani brings great expertise in global diplomacy and peace, set to lead CIC into a new era of impact. 🗞️ More: cic.nyu.edu/resources/new-…

Really helpful World Bank blog by Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Alaka Holla & Umar Serajuddin blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/time-… I've been uneasily using 'Global South' but will now follow: 'If aggregation to only two groups is necessary, use terms such as “low- and middle-income countries'

📈 There’s a link between poor humanitarian access and the prominence of food aid in Gaza. More on the latest edition of the the Inklings newsletter: buff.ly/3TInVpU

I’m proud to finally announce the launch of The Yemen Listening Project. An Arabic-English collection of nearly 100 personal stories, from Yemenis, about what it has been like to live through a war that enters its 10th year this week. 🧵thenewhumanitarian.org/yemenlistening…

🚨 📄 New Discussion Paper Reviewing the evidence on Social Protection and Labour Market policies on Informally employment in low/ middle income countries. We review 200+ papers to understand which policy instruments can promote formalisation, protection, and productivity

I sometimes stopped at a fish market outside of Lilongwe with my friends Once, I found that fishmongers were using the paper from discarded foreign donor consultancy reports to wrap the fish If you ever wanted an illustration of ineffective donor influence....

A “very, very common refrain” in interviews with people benefitting from Ethiopia’s social safety net programme is that it’s “not like dying, but it’s not like living either”. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…

Short turn-around consulting opportunity w/ UNICEF Innocenti *70 days to work on an IE of national social protection program in Cambodia 🇰🇭 *Advanced degree + 5 yrs [PhD preferred] Deadline *Monday!* cc. @RALdeGroot [<-- DM with any questions!] jobs.unicef.org/en-us/job/5711…

#Myanmar: MSF International office and pharmacy in #Rakhine state destroyed in fire amid ongoing violence. #NotATarget msf.org/msf-office-des…

1/ Post-#Brexit, a trade partner sought by the #UK government is the #UnitedArabEmirates (UAE). It has pledged billions of £ in investment into UK and wants to have ownership in UK telecoms, media and nuclear. But UAE backing of genocide in #Sudan raises questions in #London.🧵

Humanitarians often face difficult ethical dilemmas. How does your organisation make ethical decisions for principled humanitarian action? Read our new guide and tool for structured deliberation - humanitarianoutcomes.org/humanitarian_e… UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) youtube.com/watch?v=ebT7lY…

We would like to welcome Nigel Timmins to our team as an Associate. Nigel has worked in international humanitarian assistance since 1996  and was Humanitarian Director for Oxfam for 6 years, before taking up consultancy in 2022. We are excited to have him on board!

The increase of conflicts involving national militaries, like #Gaza #Sudan and #Ukraine, has resulted in more #aidworker attacks committed by state actors Aid Worker Security Database; this relative rise has disturbing implications for #IHL. Read our new report: humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSR_2024 #WHD2024

(1/3) 🚨 Join socialprotection.org on 5 December for the #SPorgWebinar "Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation" 🔗Harnessing social protection for gender equality, resilience and transformation | socialprotection.org 🕛 08.00 (GMT-5)

Mark your diaries for - ids.ac.uk/events/inves... No-one suggests trying to run a health system without doctors and nurses but in too many crises we're trying to provide assistance without investing in the workforce needed to do it properly. Monday 21st July at 2pm UK time.