Humanitarian Action
GPPi contributes research and advice on humanitarian action from a governance perspective. We support organizations in their quest to maintain the focus on people amidst expanding bureaucratic demands. We ask what it takes to adapt to insecurity while maintaining a principled approach. We accompany reform processes based on a sober analysis of their political economy. We try to understand the roles and interests of different actors involved in the humanitarian sector. Through various methods, we facilitate learning to help organizations improve on what they do and how they do it.
Evaluation of WFP Policies on Humanitarian Principles and Access in Humanitarian Contexts
This report assesses how the World Food Programme applies the humanitarian principles and negotiates access, and offers recommendations for improvement.
Harmonizing Reporting Pilot: Mid-Term Review
In humanitarian action, the aim of the “8+3 template” is to make reporting to donors simpler, more efficient and less bureaucratic. Has it reached these goals? Alexander Gaus reviews the template at the mid-point of its pilot.
Full Accountability to Affected People Cannot Possibly Be Bad – Or Can It?
Full accountability to affected populations would demand a fundamental shift in the way the humanitarian sector functions, with important unintended effects: less power for humanitarian agencies and donors, changes in the humanitarian actor landscape, and effects on local power dynamics.
Evaluation of UNHCR’s Engagement in Humanitarian-Development Cooperation
GPPi and the International Security and Development Center are conducting a developmental, longitudinal strategy and impact evaluation of UNHCR’s engagement in humanitarian-development cooperation. The evaluation will take stock of UNHCR’s current level of cooperation with development actors, assess the effects of this cooperation, and support UNHCR in refining its strategy as well as its operational approach to humanitarian-development cooperation.
Experts
Mark Bui
Julian Lehmann
Janika Spannagel
Andrea Binder
Susanna Krüger
Elias Sagmeister
Alexander Gaus
Claudia Meier
Julia Steets
András Derzsi-Horváth
Urban Reichhold
Nicole van Rooijen
Funding & Contact
Our funders and clients include: the Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP), the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the European Commission Directorate-General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Phineo, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), the UK Department for International Development (DFID), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the World Food Programme (WFP).
For more information, please contact Julia Steets.
Evaluating the Humanitarian System’s Response to the Drought in Ethiopia
GPPi is undertaking an inter-agency humanitarian evaluation (IAHE) of the emergency response to the droughts in Ethiopia since 2015. The IAHE independently assesses the extent to which the collective results of the humanitarian response met their objectives and the needs of affected people. Using stakeholder interviews, a survey of and focus group discussions with people affected by the drought, document review, data analysis, and an aid worker survey, this is the first IAHE to assess the humanitarian system’s response to a slow-onset, recurrent disaster.
