For women working in patriarchally structured sectors such as emergency services or humanitarian relief, professional networks can be an invaluable resource. They become a place where achievements are celebrated, questions...
Listen now on: Spotify | SoundCloud | Apple | YouTube In November 2023, the 52nd Pacific Islands Forum meeting was held and the host, the Cook Islands, chose the theme:...
Overview Strengthened accountability to affected populations is central to humanitarian action. While much has been achieved, there is also considerable scope to further improve accountability to people affected by conflict...
Blockchain technology is increasingly being used in humanitarian response around the world with humanitarian agencies, including the United Nations (UN), beginning to use this technology. Blockchain is also known as the...
Listen now on: Spotify | SoundCloud | Apple | YouTube The humanitarian sector’s push for localisation has resulted in an increasing presence of local and national staff in international...
The trend of international humanitarian assistance continues to grow in volume, raising the position and the profile of non-Western donors, such as the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The...
Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab (she/her) is a Canadian-Lebanese writer, researcher, university professor, international consultant and editor in the areas of Migration, Gender and Conflict Studies. She currently serves as an...
As a business we have a strong interest and focus on women in leadership. Donald Trump’s election, and inauguration today, as President of the United States, raises innumerable questions and...
As you stand in your local supermarket, you consider which loaf of bread you should buy. In one hand you have multigrain and in the other hand you have wholemeal...
Private sectors have been an important part of humanitarian responses for a long time. Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, Connecting Business Initiative (CBi) has been playing a major role to...
Past humanitarian reform agendas have continuously emphasised the need for humanitarian response to be locally owned. But for two decades, attempts to systematically elevate the representation, participation, and power of...
The World Humanitarian Summit called on actors in the humanitarian system to critically appraise their relevance. Think tanks, humanitarian commentators and consultants had a field day. We were given carte blanche...
Practical progress on localisation had been insufficient and inconsistent, despite widespread recognition of localisation as a principle within the humanitarian sector. This stream addresses the localisation measurement gap by exploring and testing approaches to measuring the activity and impact of localised humanitarian action.
Every year on August 19, we pay tribute to aid workers who have risked and lost their lives in humanitarian service. The World Humanitarian Day serves as an opportunity to “advocate...
You can read the report in Burmese below. Overview COVID-19 has opened up opportunities to progress localisation in Myanmar, but at the same time exacerbated existing challenges, presenting an opportunity...
This article offers some practical steps on conducting a remote simulation exercise (SimEx). It draws from lessons learnt during a remote SimEx held by Caritas Australia and Humanitarian Advisory Group...
The humanitarian sector has made significant progress in measuring the process of localisation, with various frameworks and tools supporting organisations on their journey towards more localised humanitarian action. Despite this...
Australia’s humanitarian involvement with our neighbours in the Indo-Pacific had been experiencing a “decline in real terms” well prior to the onset of COVID-19, and with countries now being shuttered...
Trump and humanitarianism. Oxymoronic to say the least. The effects of Trump becoming President-elect of the United States of America will ripple across time zones and sectors. The humanitarian world...
Last week, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced Australia’s new framework, Development Approaches to Countering Violent Extremism. The framework outlines how development assistance will be delivered to counter violent extremism (CVE) in...
Are we as humanitarians sabotaging ourselves by being overly pessimistic about the possibilities of new technologies, or are we justified in our scepticism? According to technology analyst Sara Watson...
Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG) brings fresh thinking to challenge the status quo of humanitarian aid. As an ethically driven business, we combine humanitarian passion with entrepreneurial agility to think and do things differently.
Listen now on: Spotify | SoundCloud | Apple | YouTube Humanitarian and climate policies are intrinsically linked. What humanitarians do, no matter how well-intentioned, has an impact on the environment...
Our research is rigorous, accessible and relevant – bridging the gap between academia and practice.
We have committed to elevating local leadership across all of our work. We believe that a true partnership can only exist between equals, each learning from and supporting the other.
Ethical recruitment in the humanitarian sector has gained momentum in recent years, thanks in large part to the Charter4Change, which has championed the cause since 2015. The Charter maintains a...
Overview Karuna Mission Social Solidarity (KMSS) and Trócaire have been working in partnership to respond to the crisis in Kachin and Northern Shan State in Myanmar since 2012. Their 2018-2020...
Overview Karuna Mission Social Solidarity (KMSS) and Trócaire have been working in partnership to respond to the crisis in Kachin and Northern Shan State in Myanmar since 2012. Their 2018-2020...
The global humanitarian reform agenda has continually evolved over the last 15 years, yet has thus far fallen short of ambitions for transformative, systemic change. This stream seeks to contextualise global models to fit national priorities and achieve meaningful impact for affected populations.
Humanitarian leadership does not currently reflect the broad diversity of talent across gender, age, ethnicity and culture. This stream focuses on understanding the real and potential benefits to organisations and disaster-affected populations of diversifying humanitarian leadership.
There hasn’t been much analysis of diversity in humanitarian leadership, so we tend to do it ourselves. At conferences, mainly. We wait to see who shows up, share a few...
Despite being partly correct in arguing that Venezuela’s dire humanitarian crisis is largely the making of the Nicolás Maduro regime, US efforts to resolve the crisis are counterproductive. By using...
China, as the largest emerging donor in the world, has been increasingly active in the international aid sector by providing generous development assistance, including infrastructure projects, human resources, technical cooperation...
Our evaluations, reviews and design of programs and initiatives rely on our independence and draw on our expertise in sector best practice.
We support learning across the humanitarian sector through our training, facilitation and teaching.
Overview During the current period of international emergency, governments across the political landscape, from democracies to dictatorships, are calling on their military to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Though an...
It has been 70 years since the Fulbright program started in Australia. Right from the beginning of my Fulbright experience I saw a unique fit for my interest in humanitarian civil-military...
Today the Humanitarian Horizons program’s People, Power and Local Leadership research team are releasing a series of learning briefs on approaches to localisation. This blog outlines the thinking behind learning...
Overview This briefing shares insights from an evaluation of the SEJAJAR network, a platform for local CSO and NGO coordination and collaboration in the COVID-19 response in Indonesia. The evaluation...
Women have not yet achieved parity in the humanitarian world. This applies, sadly, to women in humanitarian action, to women in humanitarian media, and to women in the context of...
Women’s leadership in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement is at a critical juncture. Since its establishment in 2017, the GLOW Red network has driven key actions...
Overview With COVID-19 demanding unprecedented global attention, international security concerns have receded from the international agenda. There are very valid concerns that armed actors may be opportunistic in turning the current...
Australia is in the middle of a national disaster response. The bushfires, burning across the country since September 2019, have seen both national and international resources deployed on an unprecedented...
Five years after humanitarian donors and international agencies first agreed on the Grand Bargain, priorities for its second iteration converged around more meaningful local leadership, better quality funding, and the...