Role of Non-traditional Donors in Humanitarian Action: How Much Can They Achieve?

2015 ◽  
pp. 121-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kot-Majewska
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Action

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE HUMANITARIAN ACTION INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE RED CROSS (ICRC) IN THE 2011 LIBYA REVOLUTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Fitri Adi Setyorini
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
Medical Supplies ◽  
East Region ◽  
One Step ◽  
The Arab Spring

This study discusses the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) role in protecting and assisting victims of the Libyan revolution in 2011. The purpose of this study is to explore more about the role of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in protecting and assisting victims of war as one step on a humanitarian mission. The author used the non-government organizations (NGOs) and humanitarian action concepts. The author's research method to analyze this study was a descriptive method through a literature review. Based on research done, the author found that the revolution in Libya in 2011 was one of the effects of the Arab Spring in the Middle East region. The author also found that the ICRC carried out its humanitarian missions by providing food, water, medical supplies, medical equipment, and clothing.

scholarly journals Moving beyond informal action: sustainable energy and the humanitarian response system

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter James Matthew Thomas ◽  
Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen ◽  
Aimee Jenks
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Cluster System ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Response System ◽  
Humanitarian Response ◽  
Programme Planning

AbstractEnergy and humanitarian action have long been uneasy bedfellows. In the field, many humanitarian practitioners lack the time or remit to engage with a complex issue such as energy, and the topic to date has received relatively little attention from the private, development and academic sectors. This paper hopes to provide more clarity on energy in forced displacement settings by analysing how energy is interwoven with the humanitarian cluster system. This paper has two aims: (1) to assess existing evidence in the sector and explain the links between energy and each of the humanitarian clusters and (2) to provide recommendations on how humanitarian response efforts can transition from informal action to a comprehensive response on sustainable energy provision. This paper is the first to investigate the role of energy using the cluster system as a framework and contributes to a rapidly evolving field of research and practice on energy in humanitarian contexts. Our analysis demonstrates that energy is not fully integrated within humanitarian programme planning. Further, it highlights pathways for improving humanitarian outcomes enabled by improved energy practices. We identify ten ways clusters can integrate action on energy to support crisis-affected communities.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding: Incompatible or Complementary?

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-275
Author(s):  
Jens Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Peace Operations ◽  
Humanitarian Relief ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Abstract This chapter examines the changing role of humanitarian organizations in Africa’s conflict zones and how humanitarianism has become a highly contested space on the battlefield. Through an analysis of several ongoing peace operations in Africa, this chapter demonstrates how the principles of humanitarian relief have been undermined by the major powers and the UN in their pursuit of ostensibly noble objectives. Organizations and donors have become complicit in compromising humanitarianism, especially in multi-mandated UN missions, by inserting humanitarian workers into the realm of both service delivery (associated with the process of building a state) and as a political tool to win “hearts and minds.” Peacebuilding will be better served, the chapter concludes, by restoring humanitarianism to its original role and ethos.

Dissemination

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
pp. 95-97
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Action

Dissemination of international humanitarian law and the principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is always one of the ICRC's primary objectives. Through such activities the ICRC seeks to promote respect for international humanitarian law and prevent violations of it; to increase the effectiveness and safety of humanitarian action; and to strengthen the Movement's identity and cohesion whilst making the specific role of each of its components (ICRC, League, National Societies) better known.

The ICRC takes part in two exhibitions

1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (170) ◽  
pp. 244-244
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
National Museum ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
History Of

With the aim of renewing and completing its travelling exhibition, the Division for Documentation and Dissemination has prepared a set of eighteen panels for displays to be presented first in Zurich and later in Montreal. In the former city, the Swiss National Museum is putting on an exhibition on the theme “The Good Offices of Switzerland,” relating to activities of various kinds designed to limit international conflicts, and in this connection asked the ICRC to provide material illustrating its activities for the Humanitarian Action section. The panels deal with the following: the history of the Red Cross; the role of the ICRC; the Geneva Conventions; and the Central Tracing Agency. In addition, two showcases display documents relating to the Conventions and the Agency.

scholarly journals Making Localization Work: The Everyday Practice of Three NGOs in South Sudan and Northern Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Dijkzeul
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Development ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Capacity Sharing ◽  
South Sudanese ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Role Of Religion

In humanitarian action, localization can be characterized by high hopes, many disillusions, and only limited progress. This is partly because traditional humanitarian action focuses mostly on short-term action and is supply-oriented, with decisions on the set-up and evaluation of aid activities being made by outside donors and organizations, instead of by the beneficiaries/target groups themselves. After a theoretical overview of localization and its problems, this article describes how two South Sudanese NGOs, Mary Help Association and Bishop Gassis Relief and Rescue Foundation (BGRRF), and a Ugandan NGO, Caritas Gulu, work on food security. It describes how they are implementing a 3-year program with support from Caritas Germany. The article analyzes the importance of their long-term interaction to foster trust over time through capacity development. Such capacity development includes capacity building (e.g., training, joint workshops, regular evaluations, and audits) and capacity sharing in the form of South-South cooperation. This analysis also shows that localization can be strengthened when the involved organizations agree on goals, and establish a process to reinforce their cooperation by strengthening the activities on the ground to achieve those goals. It also indicates the role of religion within capacity-development, as well as the structural problems in the context of localization that cannot easily be overcome. A conceptual model summarizes the analysis and explains the degree to which localization can be successful. Finally, the conclusions summarize the main arguments and indicate issues for further research.

Humanitarian Action and Coordination

2018 ◽  
pp. 582-600
Author(s):  
Jeff Crisp
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Interagency Coordination ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Displaced People ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

This chapter provides a historical perspective on the role of the United Nations in the areas of humanitarian action and coordination. It examines the UN’s emerging engagement in this domain in the aftermath of the Second World War, as well as the growth of the organization’s humanitarian role during the period of decolonization in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter argues that the end of the Cold War created a humanitarian landscape that was more complex and dangerous than had previously been the case, giving rise to a range of acute policy dilemmas in relation to the protection and provision of assistance to refugees, displaced people, and other civilians. The chapter suggests that effective interagency coordination has been a chronic challenge for the UN in the humanitarian realm and provides a critical review of the different organizational arrangements that have been established to address this concern.

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