Just as emergency relief activities are crucial to saving lives by responding to the most urgent human needs, integrating an early recovery approach within humanitarian operations is crucial to the first efforts of a community to recover. It prepares the ground for an effective ‘exit strategy’ for humanitarian actors and contributes to ‘durable solutions’ by establishing the ...» more
Library
This e-library contains more than 4500 external publications on governance, social development, conflict and humanitarian issues. It includes academic and grey literature selected for its basis in good quality research and coverage of a range of perspectives. Policy-oriented summaries of each document are provided, plus links to the full text.
Trends and challenges in humanitarian civil–military coordination: A review of the literature
How does the relationship between humanitarian organisations and militaries function during humanitarian response? This paper explores how recent global developments have affected the relationship between military and humanitarian actors. It identifies key trends emerging from the literature on civil–military coordination in conflicts and natural disasters.The paper also ...» more
Mutual Accountability Lessons and Prospects for Afghanistan Post-Tokyo
This brief first reviews some lessons from international experience with conditionality associated with policy-based financial support to developing countries. It then looks at experience with mutual accountability efforts in Afghanistan over the past decade, focusing on the Bonn Agreement of December 2001, the Afghanistan Compact of early 2006, and budget support operations ...» more
Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid
This study represents the cumulative evidence of five years gathering evidence from people living in societies that are recipients of international aid. CDA's Listening Project organised teams of 'listeners' across 20 countries and contexts to gather the voices, insights, and lessons from people both inside and outside the aid system. The Listening Project held conversations ...» more
From Combatants to Peacebuilders: A case for inclusive, participatory and holistic security transitions
There has been a tendency to view all armed actors as ‘spoilers’ to be fought at all costs or, at best, pacified through disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR), rather than as agents of change who can play constructive roles in securing peace and building more legitimate states.The purpose of this report is to present key policy-relevant findings from a two-year ...» more