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Dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice

The Humanitarian Policy Group is one of the world's leading teams of independent researchers and information professionals working on humanitarian issues. It is dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate.

New from HPG

South Sudan: violence in Jonglei

 

Haiti two years on: beyond the headlines

Sudan armed men on truck (Source: Derk Segaar, IRIN)
			13 January 2012

 

A family lives in a makeshift camp in front of the Haitian National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (Source: REUTERS/Logan Abassi/UN Photo/Handout, Reuters)
			12 January 2012

UN integration and humanitarian space

 

Managing residual risk in emergencies

UNAMID Peacekeeper on Duty in West Darfur (Source: United Nations Photo, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/4587018425/)
			15 December 2011

 

Displaced boys and young men, South Sudan (Source: daveblume, Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/kioko/2786198272/)
			9 December 2011

  • Since November 2010, the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at ODI has been working to bridge the conceptual and practical gaps on risk management between donors and humanitarian agencies. As a result, HPG has helped to build a new mutual understanding on what risk is, and how it can be managed.

What we work on

Livelihoods and food security in crises

 

Principles, politics and the humanitarian system

Nepali farmer (Source: flickr/32779408@N02, Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/32779408@N02/)

  • Livelihoods in conflict, food security and protracted crisis, including cash transfer programming.

 

Flags outside UN HQ (Source: Noah Bulgaria, Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/noahbulgaria/184427400/)

  • The evolving institutions and principles of humanitarian action and politics.

Displacement, migration and urbanisation

 

Programming in transitional contexts

Favela Rocinha houses (Source: Julio Aguiar, Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/julioaguiar/)

  • The changing dynamics of displacement with a particular focus on urbanisation, exploring the factors that affect forced migration, such as climate change.

 

Darfuri women and children rest in a school at Sirba town (Source: REUTERS/Opheera McDoom, Reuters)

  • The challenges for policy-making, strategy and operations in crises: the context in which the substantial majority of humanitarian expenditure currently occurs.

Civilian security and protection

 

Sudan armed men on truck (Source: Derk Segaar, IRIN)

  • The roles of military, political, human rights and humanitarian actors in civilian protection and the extent to which these are complementary.

 

Our team