Resources

Note: this list of resources is for information only. The publications listed here are not published by, or on behalf of the GHD initiative.

Good Humanitarian Donorship

• Good Humanitarian Donorship: History of the initiative and HPG engagement with it
  Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Humanitarian Policy Group
• Smoke and Mirrors: Deficiencies in Disaster Funding
  Peter Walker; Ben Wisner; Jennifer Leaning and Larry Minear
  Tufts University, January 2005
• From Stockholm to Ottawa: A Progress Review of the Good Humanitarian Donorship
  Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Humanitarian Policy Group, October 2004
• Changes in Humanitarian Financing: Implications for the United Nations
  Randolph Kent, Mark Dalton, Karin von Hippel and Ralf Maurer
  United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, October 2003
• The Quality of Money: Donor Behaviour in Humanitarian Financing
  Ian Smillie and Larry Minear
  Tufts University, April 2003
• Uncertain Power: The Changing Role of Official Donors in Humanitarian Action
  Joanna Macrae, Sarah Collinson, Margie Buchanan-Smith, Nicola Reindorp, Anna Schmidt, Tasneem Mowjee and Adele Harmer
  ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group, December 2002
• The 'Bilaterisation' of Humanitarian Response: Trends in the Financial, Contractual and Managerial Environment of Official Humanitarian Aid
  Joanna Macrae
  ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group, October 2002

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Humanitarian Financing

Global Humanitarian Assistance

• Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2006
• Global Humanitarian Assistance 2004/2005
  Development Initiatives, July 2005
• Global Humanitarian Assistance 2003
  Development Initiatives, January 2003

CERF

• Study on Revised CERF Mechanism
  Barnaby Willitts-King and Tony Faint
  Overseas Development Institute (ODI), June 2005
• Enhancing the Functioning and Utilization of the Central Emergency Revolving Fund: Note by the Secretary-General (A/57/613) United Nations (UN) General Assembly, November 2002
• Enhancing the Functioning and Utilization of the Central Emergency Revolving Fund: Note by the Secretary-General (A/55/649) UN General Assembly, November 2000

Pooled Funding

• Proposal for a GHD Fund for the DRC
• Proposal for a GHD Fund for Sudan

Trends in Humanitarian Assistance

• Synthesis Report: Review of engagement of NGOs with the humanitarian reform process
• World Disasters Report 2005
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• World Disasters Report 2000-2004
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• The New Humanitarianism: A Review of Trends in Global Humanitarian Action
  Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Humanitarian Policy Group, April 2002
• ODI's Humanitarian Policy Group Reports 2000-2005
• Giving Voice to Silent Emergencies
  Anna Jefferys
  ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network, March 2002
• An End to Forgotten Emergencies?
  Oxfam, May 2000

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Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP)

• Montreux Annual Donor’s Retreat, 2010; Convenors Conclusions
• Humanitarian Appeal 2004 - Mid Year Review
  United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, June 2004
• Technical Guidelines for the CAP 2003
  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, August 2002
• An External Review of the Consolidated Appeals Process
  Toby Porter
  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, April 2002
• CAP Best Practices and Lessons Learned Retreat Report 2002
  United Nations, January 2002
• Consolidated Appeal Process Guidelines
  Inter-Agency Standing Committee, April 1994

For more on consolidated appeals see http://ochaonline.un.org/cap2005/webpage.asp?Nav=_about_en&Site=_about&Lang=en.

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Aid Effectiveness

• Managing the risks of corruption in humanitarian relief operations
  Barnaby Willitts-King and Paul Harvey
  Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - Humanitarian Policy Group, March 2005
• Cash Transfers in Emergencies: Evaluating Benefits and Assessing Risks
  David Peppiatt, John Mitchell and Penny Holzmann
  ODI - Humanitarian Practice Network, June 2001

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ECHO

• European Humanitarian Aid : Values and Principles
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, June 2005
• ECHO Annual Review 2004 : When Disaster Strikes
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, March 2005
• ECHO Annual Review 2003 : Protecting the Humanitarian Space
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, January 2004
• ECHO Annual Review 2002: Responding to New Needs
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, March 2003
• ECHO Annual Review 2001: Sustaining Hope in a Changing World
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, February 2002
• ECHO Annual Review 2000: Humanitarian Crisis - Out of the Spotlight
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, May 2001
• ECHO Annual Review 1999: East Timor - Looking for a Peaceful Future
  European Commission - Humanitarian Aid Office, January 2000

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EU

• GHD and the EU: a study of good practice and recent initiatives
  Development Commission Ireland - September 2004

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IASC

• IASC Appeal and Strategy Documents
  Inter-Agency Standing Committee, March 2003
• Report of the IASC Review of the Consolidated Appeals Process
  Inter-Agency Standing Committee, April 2002

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WHO

• Benchmarking exercise papers
  WHO documents for a meeting in December 2005 on tracking health performance and humanitarian outcomes

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Humanitarian Accountability Project

• HAP principles
  The seven principles of accountability

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People in Aid

• Guidelines on support, safety and management of staff
  The Code of Good Practice in the management and support of aid personnel

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Groupe URD Quality Compas

• English webpage   French webpage
  A Quality Assurance method with the overall aim of improving services provided to crisis-affected populations.

Last updated: 2 December 2009

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