Simon Levine

Research Fellow, Humanitarian Policy Group

s.levine@odi.org.uk

Simon spent many years working for NGOs in Mozambique, Cambodia, Tanzania and Burundi, before working as a consultant based in Uganda for nine years. He specialises in livelihoods and vulnerability analysis, land rights, and in early response in humanitarian crises.

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Is humantiarianism worth defending?

Event - Public event - 18 April 2013

The MSc module on Managing Humanitarianism at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) held a final lecture that invited panellists to answer the question: "Is humanitarianism worth defending?" Simon Levine served as one of the panellists.

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Mauritanian herder seeks pasture during 2012 Sahel food security crisis

HPG Integrated Programme 2013-15

Projects - March 2013 to March 2015

This is the eleventh Integrated Programme (IP) of work proposed for funding by the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG).The Integrated Programme gives intellectual consistency to the research work of HPG, helping to ensure HPG’s effectiveness and providing a clear basis for the mobilisation of funds.

The projects constitute the core of HPG’s research work in 2013–15, combining policy-relevant research and engagement, humanitarian practice, academic engagement and a vigorous and extensive public affairs programme of events, conferences and media work.

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European Union balance of competences: development cooperation and humanitarian aid report

Publication - Discussion papers - 1 March 2013

Mikaela Gavas, Simon Levine, Simon Maxwell and Andrew Norton

This publication outlines details of a submission by researchers from the Overseas Development Institute for HMG EU Balance of Competences Review on the Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid Report.

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A conceptual analysis of livelihoods and resilience: addressing the ‘insecurity of agency’

Publication - Research reports and studies - 30 November 2012

Adam Pain and Simon Levine

The debates on how aid investment can be reoriented towards supporting resilience are usually framed in terms of risk, and of people’s ability to cope with shocks. This HPG working paper argues that support to resilience and intelligent monitoring would be better based on a focus on the structural factors that prevent people from investing in their futures.

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Mothers wait to be seen in a therapeutic feeding centre in Maradi Region, Niger

The crisis in the Sahel – time for a new drumbeat?

Event - Public event - 31 October 2012 15:00 - 17:00 (GMT+00)

This event launches the 55th edition of Humanitarian Exchange, the theme of which is the crisis in the Sahel. Drawing on the articles in this issue as well as their own experience and research speakers in Dakar, Ghana, and London will reflect on and debate these issues as well as respond to questions and comments from our audiences in the room and online.

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