The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute and the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit (PRDU) at the University of York are partnering to offer a yearly ‘Advanced Course on Conflict, Crisis and Transitions’, a week-long programme targeting mid-career and senior professionals.
This paper analyses how early recovery activities are financed through humanitarian appeals, focusing primarily on Consolidated Appeals (CAPs), so that donors and aid agencies can better understand what is being financed and why.
This paper argues that early recovery has functioned primarily as a way of framing activities, strategies and approaches that take place in humanitarian and transitional contexts, and that its added value is yet to be consistently proven.
This HPG Policy Brief provides an overview of early recovery that will inform up-coming HPG research on early recovery, stabilisation and transitions. It argues that early recovery has functioned primarily as a way of framing the activities, strategies and approaches that take place in humanitarian and transitional contexts, and that its added value is yet to be consistently proven.