Humanitarian Assistance

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POLICY PAPER

Steps Toward Forest Landscape Restoration in The Context of The Rohingya Influx: Creating Opportunities to Advance Environmental, Humanitarian, and Development Progress in Bangladesh
Heather Tallis et al.
July 02, 2019
There are now one million Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, comprising about 30 percent of the population. This increase, coupled with immediate needs for fuelwood and shelter, has diminished livelihoods due to deforestation and loss of access to land; soil and slope erosion; fuelwood scarcity a...
Blog Post

Three Big Lessons for The Next Pandemic Response
Jeremy Konyndyk
May 16, 2019
The next pandemic is coming. We don’t know when it will hit or what it will be, but we do know that risk factors for the spread of infectious disease are worsening. The 2014–15 Ebola outbreak in West Africa provides a useful microcosm of the challenges a pandemic would pose. My new ...
CGD NOTE

How Urban are IDPs and What Does that Mean for Their Economic Integration?
Cindy Huang
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Jimmy Graham
May 10, 2019
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face severe economic challenges. Which policy and programmatic approaches will be most effective in supporting IDPs to overcome these challenges and make progress toward self-reliance depends in part on the urban-rural composition of IDP populations. By analysing ...
CGD NOTE

The Dos and Don’ts of USG Humanitarian Reorganization
Jeremy Konyndyk
April 19, 2019
The proposed FY 2020 budget changes would be the most significant overhaul of USG humanitarian structures in decades. The proposal in its current form is unlikely to get much traction in Congress, where it is seen on both sides of the aisle as dramatically weakening US leadership on refugees. In lig...