Emergency Gap

The project responds to MSF’s concerns regarding the declining emergency response capacity and presence of humanitarian actors in conflict zones. The Emergency Gap work aims to diagnose the drivers of this loss of emergency focus and to analyse the enablers and disablers for the provision of effective response in acute conflict settings. The project also aspires to stimulate debate with a view to identifying better strategic and operational approaches for delivering critical assistance to people trapped in situations of armed conflict.

Bridging the emergency gap: what will it take?

LIVESTREAMED PUBLIC EVENT

Friday, 18th May 2018 1pm NY / 7pm CET

International Peace Institute (IPI), New York

to watch a recording of the event click here :

https://www.ipinst.org/2018/05/bridging-the-emergency-gap

 

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Emergency Gap

The Nexus Explained

Public Webinar

Thursday 12th April 2018

On 12 April, the first session of the new learning stream on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus took place, jointly organized by ICVA and PHAP. The event explored how humanitarian action can contribute to development and peace efforts and considered some of the risks and challenges involved in changing ways of working and pursuing collective outcomes.

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Emergency Gap

North-east Nigeria

Case Study

April 2017

This case study examines the humanitarian response to the conflict-related crisis in the North-East of Nigeria, focusing primarily on the period from 2015 to the end of 2016.  The aim is test the central hypotheses of the Emergency Gap project: that the current structure, conceptual underpinning and prevalent mindset of the international humanitarian system limits its capacity to be effective in response to conflict-related emergencies.

 

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Emergency Gap

The Evolution of Emergency WASH in Humanitarian Action

Case Study

June 2017

An emergency WASH gap exists – there is little disagreement on this point within the humanitarian sector. There is a paucity of emergency WASH capacity, but a surplus of complacency. This report provides an overview of both historical trends and current challenges in emergency WASH programming. Some ways forward are suggested and can be summarised as three key take-home points.

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Emergency Gap

Humanitarian financing: is it all about money?

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April 2017

This paper expands on the structural elements of the emergency gap analysis by providing critical examination of the current setup of the humanitarian sector and its financing architecture.

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Perilous terrain: Humanitarian action at risk in Mali

Case study

March 2017

This paper examines the incursion of military and political actors into the humanitarian realm in Mali, a context shaped by the rationales of “integration”, “stabilisation” and “counter-terrorism”, and argues that it is jeopardising humanitarian action in the country.

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Emergency Gap

Emergency gap: Humanitarian action critically wounded

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April 2016

This first paper lays out MSF’s concern about the lack of sufficient and adequate humanitarian response capacity in the acute phase of a conflict.

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Emergency gap: Insecurity - always an insurmountable obstacle?

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January 2017

This paper offers a reflection on the subject of risk acceptance, and some of the underlying factors that –apart from the actual security threat– influence security decision-making in the humanitarian sector.

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Emergency Gap

Niger, Jan 2015 – Aug 2016

Case study

November 2016

This case study of the ‘humanitarian system’s’ response to a conflict driven displacement crisis in the Diffa region of Niger explores if there is an ‘Emergency Gap’. This report concludes that there has been a gap in what could reasonably be expected in terms of effective humanitarian response, and that the reasons for this gap are found in an analysis of the internal dynamics of the system as much as in any external constraints.

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Emergency Gap

The challenges of localised aid in conflict

Livestreamed public event

Tuesday, November, the 29th. 15:00-16:30 hs (GMT). Paris 16.00p.m. / New York 10:00 a.m./ Sanaa 17:00p.m. / Amman 17:00p.m.

Overseas Development Institute (ODI) & Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP), London

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