2025 Aid Worker Security Report - Defenceless: Aid worker security amid the humanitarian funding collapse, is now available for download here - humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSR_2025 #WHD2025 #ActForHumanity #Notatarget @unocha.org @abbystoddard.bsky.social

The lack of accountability over sexual violence crimes in Tigray, Amhara and Afar has triggered yet more violence, says a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Organisation for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa.

Mark your diaries for - www.ids.ac.uk/events/inves... No-one suggests trying to run a health system without doctors and nurses but in too many crises we're trying to provide assistance without investing in the workforce needed to do it properly. Monday 21st July at 2pm UK time

Deadline for submitting evidence to the high level panel on social protection in settings of conflict and fragility is July 6th. Get your thoughts in while you can www.surveymonkey.com/r/enquiry_so...

Where next for social protection financing in crises asks Sophia Swithern and Kirsty Lazer for BASIC Research @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/fin...

Interested in humanitarian security risk management? Visit the Good Practice Review 8, 3rd edition, interactive website to explore all the book content, security terms glossary, further resources, and much more ➡️ gpr8.humanitarianoutcomes.org

The always useful humanitarian evidence summary is out for June - k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/k4d...

Also just out by Gabrielle smith for the STAAR Facility a magisterial synthesis of lessons from six country studies on maintaining and strengthening social assistance in conflict settings. socialprotection.org/discover/pub...

Whilst we're on good questions - Is Poverty Underestimated Because Males and Females Report Food Security and Food Expenses Differently? ask Camelia Vasilov , Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Mats Hoppenbrouwers for BASIC Research (short answer is yes) - www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

A big question - Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate ‍Resilience in Conflict‑Affected Settings? - (the short answer is it could but it isn't) www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

And whilst I'm on brilliant BASIC Research work - there's a new paper by @beckycarter.bsky.social and Hassan-Alattar Satti on supporting mutual aid and community led responses in Sudan - www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

Hot off the press - An analysis of the challenges and opportunities for financing social protection on conflicts by the brilliant team of Sophia Swithern Niklas Rieger and Kirsty Lazer for BASIC Research - @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/publications...

How much #zakat is being paid in #Pakistan during #Ramadan? Our research estimates the total is over 600 billion rupees - more than the state's main social support grant (BISP), more than the state collects in excise duty or in official development aid. Read more here: www.ictd.ac/blog/pakista...

🗣️ Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.

We may never know the true impact of the US foreign aid cuts, since losing the funding also means losing the ability to measure. Some colleagues and I wrote about the threat to humanitarian data. @newhumanitarian.bsky.social

I've been reading a lot of reflections about how the USAID freeze is a moment to reflect on fundamental reform of humanitarian action. Whilst I'm all for reform and reflection that's been making me uneasy in a way I've been struggling to pin down. 1 of 3 or 4

New briefing by Proximity International and Rachel Slater on what's happening to social protection in Syria after the change of regime - www.proximityinternational.com/proximitylab

Excitingly the brilliant @verobarbelet.bsky.social now here on Bluesky

Latest humanitarian access snapshot for Gaza - reliefweb.int/report/occup....

I'm late coming to this but this @newhumanitarian.bsky.social article on targeted killings of people involved in aid deliveries in Gaza by the Israeli army is vital reading - www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

New systematic lit review looks at #cashtransfers and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in #Africa. Hirvonen et al www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...

🚨We would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Hangout meetings of the Social Protection in Crisis Contexts Online Community scheduled for December 📅Wednesday, 11 December 🕒9:30am New York / 2:30pm London 🔗Register: https://tinyurl.com/4k525wdu 🗣️Open discussion +

As part of our reporting, we used optical and radar sensors aboard earth observation satellites to track the expanding burial grounds at Zamzam. Here’s how we did it. www.reuters.com/investigates...

This @reuters.com report on famine in the Zamzam camp in Sudan is harrowingly brilliant journalism. Full of admiration for @mcneill.bsky.social @marianozafra.bsky.social @lenamasri.bsky.social and their colleagues - www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...

Great blog by Sara Murray and Gabrielle Fox for CGAP - 'Can What Remains of Sudan’s Financial System Be Used to Fight Famine?' - www.cgap.org/blog/can-wha... 'The Bank of Khartoum’s Bankak app continues to offer a bright spot, facilitating over 50 million transactions since the start of the war.'

In early 2024, as northern Gaza hurtled towards famine under Israeli bombardment and siege, UN agencies launched an emergency effort to deliver food aid to those in desperate need. This is the story of how that effort came crashing down, under Israeli bombs and bullets 🧵

Until STAAR arrive - I'll post their monthly updates - The November issue of the STAAR Evidence Digest is now live on socialprotection.org and includes the latest information on social protection & climate, conflict & cash transfer programming across the nexus socialprotection.org/discover/pub...

Via @ugentilini.bsky.social 's latest weekly links -‪ 'in Pakistan, combining cash transfers and lipid-based nutrition supplements is cost-effective for reducing stunting . Adding messages on nutrition, health, and hygiene information reduced cost-effectiveness' www.ugogentilini.net/links-nov-29...

Explore the knowledge and expertise behind our work. This #StarterPack brings you closer to the Centre’s Experts, offering ongoing insights on conflict, armed groups, and peacebuilding from across the globe go.bsky.app/UkyRJUS

NEW PAPER: One common misconception about informal economies is that they do not pay taxes. In a new article, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Mike Rogan, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Max Gallien survey of 2500 informal workers in Accra to show that tax burdens can be real, regressive, & skewed: lnkd.in/ehpmRRgq

In the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, residents are digging foxholes to survive missile strikes and eating noxious animal feed to stave off hunger, reports Ahmed Gouja @qoga12: ⬇️

New on Bluesky is @humoutcomes.bsky.social where we’ll be posting our work on violence against aid workers, access challenges and more

OCHA press release draws on Humanitarian Outcomes aid worker security database which shows 2024 has become the deadliest year for aid workers with 281 people killed so far @tomfletcherun.bsky.social calls for an end to impunity - reliefweb.int/report/world...

Since 7 Oct 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least 1 health worker or patient in #Lebanon. This is a higher percentage than any active conflict today across the globe. In comparison, the global average is 13.3%. @who.int www.emro.who.int/media/news/l...

If you're interested in social protection in crises do check out BASIC research www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an... here

Report about a global forum on social protection in conflicts socialprotection.org/discover/pub...

Sp.org webinar reflecting on a global forum on social protection in conflicts- socialprotection.org/learn/webina... 26th November at 14.00 uk time

New call for papers for an IDS conference on social and humanitarian assistance in crises in September 2025 www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an...

And our 2024 aid worker security report with a focus on advocacy - humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSR_2024

Our new Humanitarian Outcomes alert on attacks on national aid workers in Sudan humanitarianoutcomes.org/publications...

@deepmala-mahla.bsky.social, CARE International's global humanitarian lead and a former colleague of mine is now on Bluesky, and added to this pack. go.bsky.app/DUo3MGi