Humanitarian Assistance

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Blog Post
Humanitarian Financing Is Failing the COVID-19 Frontlines
Jeremy Konyndyk et al.
June 18, 2020
Longstanding weaknesses in the humanitarian business model are undermining the COVID-19 response in fragile and conflict affected states. Extensive delays, poor mechanisms for tracking disbursement of funds from intermediaries to implementers, and persistent obstacles to financing local actors are p...
Blog Post
Faced with COVID-19, the Humanitarian System Should Rethink its Business Model
Jeremy Konyndyk
and
Patrick Saez
April 07, 2020
This is a crisis of truly global scale and it will place enormous constraints on traditional humanitarian operations.
CGD NOTES
China’s “Counterpart Assistance” Approach to Coronavirus: Lessons from the Wenchuan Earthquake Response
Xiaobo Zhang
and
Lihe Xu
February 26, 2020
In early 2020, a new type of coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19) emerged suddenly and spread steadily from China’s Wuhan City, Hubei Province, disrupting China’s social order. The epicenter of the epidemic, Hubei Province lacked medical personnel and epidemic prevention supplies; assistance was urgently...
BRIEFS
Expert Recommendations for US and Global Preparedness for COVID-19
The Center for Global Development
February 13, 2020
Blog Post
Three Key Ways to Modernize Humanitarian Finance
Patrick Saez
February 10, 2020
Is the humanitarian system broke or broken? 
CGD NOTES
The Role of the World Bank in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
Sarah Charles et al.
December 05, 2019
Meaningful progress on the goal of reducing global extreme poverty requires meeting the development needs of vulnerable populations in fragile contexts; but assistance in these contexts has traditionally been limited to short-term humanitarian aid, ill-equipped to address underlying development chal...
Blog Post
Beneficial Policies Towards the Venezuela Crisis Depend on Development Finance
Jimmy Graham
and
Patrick Saez
November 26, 2019
The political and economic crisis in Venezuela has caused the biggest population movement in recent Latin American history. Support from the international community has predominantly focused on short-term humanitarian assistance, which will remain important for the most vulnerable Venezuel...