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New report into surge capacity in slow onset crises

As the global news agenda focuses on the famine across South Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, the need for humanitarian agencies to better respond to slow onset and protracted crises is highlighted in a new report.

Slow-Onset Crises: Review of Surge Practices

This report presents the results of the second tracking mechanism on surge practices for slow-onset crises as part of the Start Network Transforming Surge Capacity Project.

Rising humanitarian needs call for a new way of working

The growing intensity and complexity of humanitarian disasters requires us to work in new, innovative ways. Stephen O'Brien, the United Nations' Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination, outlines why.  

International Women's Day 2017 case studies

Women are among those most affected by disasters but in many countries are under-represented in humanitarian leadership positions. On International Women's Day 2017 we celebrate women as change makers, those women working in humanitarian aid who are changing aid for the better.

I am a homemaker and also a warrior. I love, I challenge, I win

This case study, produced on International Women's Day 2017, focuses on Millet Morante from Philippines. She is a member of the Kaisa Ka organisation (volunteers who seeks to advance the rights of Filipino women) and of the People-Based Humanitarian Action Consortium (PBHAC).