Humanitarian Assistance

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Moving Funding to Frontline Workers Fast in the Time of COVID-19
Jens Laerke
July 03, 2020
After the publication of “Humanitarian Financing Is Failing the COVID-19 Frontlines,” the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs asked for the opportunity to publish a response on CGD’s site, presented here.
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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...
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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.
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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...