Humanitarian Assistance

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REPORT

Focusing on Fragility: The Future of US Assistance to Fragile States

October 22, 2019
Global development is increasingly intertwined with state fragility. It's time for donors to rethink how their engagement can better help countries address the underlying causes of fragility.
Blog Post

Power, Money, and Influence: Broadening the Dialogue on Humanitarian Action at UNGA

October 07, 2019
At the 74th UN General Assembly meetings, Jeremy Konyndyk and I held a high-level side event at the Rockefeller Foundation headquarters focused on a vital but inadequately addressed aspect of the humanitarian system and humanitarian reform in particular: who has power, who lacks power, and how to ch...
Blog Post

UNGA 2019: A Development Dispatch from New York

September 24, 2019
On the sidelines of the 74th annual proceedings of the UN General Assembly, one recurring idea caught my attention: interconnectedness.
POLICY PAPER

People-Driven Response: Power and Participation in Humanitarian Action

September 18, 2019
To produce real systemic change, the aid system must move beyond technical and rhetorical approaches to accountability and begin reshaping the power and incentive structures that influence aid decision-making.