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The Syrian Crisis: Humanitarian access, engaging with fragmented actors, and the UN Security Council Resolution
PHAP Member
16 March 2014
What are currently the most important challenges for the humanitarian response in Syria? One of the main challenges currently experienced by the humanitarian in Syria agencies is having sufficient capacity to provide assistance to the isolated populations that are cut off from the existing...
Yemen: Recent developments and challenges
PHAP Member
16 March 2014
What are the most important developments in the Yemen conflict and humanitarian crisis over the last month? The end of the National Dialogue Conference has seen an increase in armed confrontations. Fighting between Shi’ite and Sunni groups have spread from the north of the country to close...
Typhoon Haiyan/ Yolanda: Challenges affecting the humanitarian response in February 2014
PHAP Member
16 March 2014
What are some of the most important challenges in the Philippines today with regard to the humanitarian response in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda?First of all, similar to last year, the availability of construction materials of good quality remains a big issue in the country. We have to rely on...
Balancing informal and formal structures in humanitarian organizations
Uma Narayanan
15 March 2014
Are you part of the grapevine at your work place? Do you belong to an informal network, and one of those who get information – consistent or inconsistent, accurate or inaccurate – ahead of your colleagues? Informal structures and relationships in an organization have their advantages...
Cash transfer programming: Benefits and risks
Louisa Seferis
14 March 2014
Cash transfer programming (CTP) has rapidly become an important and often preferred assistance modality for humanitarian actors around the world. When conflict or displacement-affected people are in areas with functioning cash-based markets, an increasing number of humanitarian agencies feel cash...