GHA Report 2010

The Global Humanitarian Assistance programme has published its GHA Report 2010, presenting the very latest data on financial flows to humanitarian crises.

It features chapters on conflict and the military, domestic response, the scale of needs, donor and recipient governments, pooled financing and delivery agencies; revealing the complexity of humanitarian response.

“The money is only half the story,” says Programme Leader, Jan Kellett. “What is important is that the money is used better, and that is all about understanding the context." Firstly a much better understanding of need is required, one that focuses on what appears to be sustained inequalities in funding across similar crises, and secondly a much better relationship between all the resources available. Humanitarian aid does not exist in a vacuum. Beneficiaries are unlikely to care what we call the funding support they receive but what we use that money for, whether humanitarian, development, recovery, stabilisation, state-building, peacekeeping, will affect what support they do receive.”

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