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When I was responsible for these issues at the UN, funding for its humanitarian work increased by 65 percent (from some $12 billion in 2016 to around $20 billion in 2020). Contributions are voluntary, unlike, for example, the UN’s work on peacekeeping or the funding of the IMF and World Bank, which are based on assessed contributions and ...
Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy | Center For Global Development. We work to maximize the benefits of migration to destination and origin countries, expand the opportunities available to forcibly displaced people, and reform the humanitarian system to better serve the needs of those affected by conflict and crisis. We recognize ...
Humanitarian Policy | Center For Global Development. Every year, the number of people who need humanitarian assistance and protection increases. In 2022, there were 274 million people in need, the highest figure in decades, requiring $41 billion in assistance. Yet the humanitarian system allocates its resources inefficiently, reaches too few ...
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 fail to maintain public confidence in their mission, as in the recent spate of #AidToo scandals ...
The US has long sought enhanced coherence, quality, and efficiency from its UN and NGO partners; it is time that the US government place these same demands upon itself. As the US Government grapples with how best to reconfigure its humanitarian engagement, it should adopt a Goldwater-Nichols approach: a strategy that does not collapse together the distinctive institutional roles and strengths ...
Bio. Sir Mark Lowcock was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He joined the Center in June 2021 following a 36-year career in international development policy and programme management and global humanitarian issues. His areas of interest include development finance, multilateral reform, governance, the organisation of ...
This brief summarizes three years of research under the project, “Rethinking Humanitarian Reform,” led by Jeremy Konyndyk, Patrick Saez, and Rose Worden, and funded by the aid departments of the United Kingdom and Australia. The project aimed to understand the incentives behind the humanitarian system and shift them to better prioritize the needs of affected populations. Read more at ...
straints on humanitarian funding, planning, and making allocative decisions. We identify and highlight perceived and real constraints with whi. h donors contend when making decisions on how to allocate limited resources. The way humanitarian donors fund is key to. ystem-wide eficiency, effectiveness, and reforms in the humanitarian sys.
Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen, with the World Food Programme (WFP) reporting that 22.8 million people—more than half the country’s population—are projected to be acutely food insecure in 2022, including 8.7 million at risk of famine-like conditions. Even before the Taliban took over the country on August 15, 2021, Afghanistan’s economy was buckling under the ...
s from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in s. pport of this work.Patrick Saez, Lewis Sida, Rachel Silverman, and Rose Worden. 2021. “Imp. oving Performance in. he Multilateral Humanitarian System: New Models of Donorship.” CGD Policy Paper 214. Washington, DC: Center for Global Development. https://www.cgdev. org/.