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262. Gaza Needs Humanitarian Assistance Now as Famine Sets In
- Author:
- Alistair D. B. Cook
- Publication Date:
- 04-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- Abstract:
- Dealing with the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and preventing famine requires increasing airdrops as an interim solution and reinforcing diplomatic efforts to open up more aid channels.
- Topic:
- Diplomacy, Famine, Humanitarian Crisis, and 2023 Gaza War
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Israel, Palestine, and Gaza
263. Agriculture and Food at COP28: Not Just More Money
- Author:
- Jose M. L. Montesclaros and Paul Teng
- Publication Date:
- 01-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- Abstract:
- The recent COP28 Climate Summit has finally given due recognition to food and agriculture given the close links between climate change and food production. While the summit saw a big push to operationalise the newly established Loss and Damage Fund, limited attention was given to agriculture in discussions on the said fund. Rather than focusing on drawing from the new fund to promote sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural practices, greater attention is needed instead to mobilising existing funds.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Food, Climate Finance, and Conference of the Parties (COP)
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
264. Health responses during COVID-19
- Author:
- Neha Singh, Kimberley Popple, and James Smith
- Publication Date:
- 08-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic presented a grave global health challenge, both in terms of scale and severity. The novelty of the virus and the widespread economic impacts of efforts to contain it created an urgent global need to understand the virus, issue accurate guidance and develop effective prevention and treatment. As the pandemic progressed, many contexts already affected by humanitarian crises faced a new health threat, further compounded by the pandemic’s deleterious impact on socioeconomic indicators, food security and essential services. Many other countries, not previously considered as affected by humanitarian crises, had to reorientate to crisis response given the extent of the threat posed by COVID-19. Both the anticipated and realised impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic placed immense pressure on healthcare systems worldwide to both prevent and treat COVID-19 cases – something that has often required complex interventions – while simultaneously maintaining essential health services. As such, policymakers and healthcare workers were pressed to make changes to systems and practices to respond to the direct threat posed by COVID-19, and the indirect impact of COVID-19 response measures on non-COVID-19 health needs. Much of the available COVID-19 guidance primarily focused on higher-income countries, many of which became the early epicentres of the pandemic, and thus far has not necessarily been as relevant or applicable to humanitarian settings where living and working conditions, as well as the wider socio-cultural environment, are very different, and where local health systems may already be weakened by existing humanitarian crises and other challenges. Furthermore, where guidance has been developed for humanitarian settings (Interagency Standing Committee [IASC], 2020; Ramalingam, 2020), the diversity of countries and contexts that fall under such categorisation is such that any guidance produced is not able – nor intended – to be context specific. As such, humanitarian organisations at the country level have initiated adaptive interventions to respond to the specific challenges they have experienced (Lancet, 2020). These adaptations often demonstrate a complex process whereby organisations acknowledge guidance is available to support interventions, but that they must nonetheless adapt or innovate in response to contextual realities (Odlum et al., 2021).
- Topic:
- Health, COVID-19, and Humanitarian Response
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
265. The humanitarian response to COVID-19: Lessons for future pandemics and global crises
- Author:
- Emmeline Kerkvliet, Samir Hafiz, and Susanna Morrison-Metois
- Publication Date:
- 10-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- ALNAP: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
- Abstract:
- The COVID-19 pandemic was unparalleled in scope and scale, and the response tested the humanitarian system in new and unforeseen ways. While funding was not able to keep pace with the massive rise in global needs, the system proved to be extraordinarily resilient. However, neither the crisis itself nor the response to it should be understood as exceptional. Despite its many achievements and adaptations, the humanitarian response walked a well-trodden path. Humanitarian actors often defaulted to their usual, top-down ways of working, revealing perennial problems in the current formal international humanitarian system. Evaluations emphasise that the response was carried out under significant constraints – unpredictability, scarcity of information and limited humanitarian access – but caution should be exercised against interpreting these constraints as justifications for the shortcomings of the response. There were striking parallels between the operating environment of COVID-19 and other crises, which are not new to humanitarians. In framing the pandemic as an exceptional crisis, there is a real risk of diminishing the importance of learning and the need for transformative change within the sector. ALNAP 's analysis suggests that there is much to be learned – and further researched – from the response to COVID-19, which will be useful in responding to future public health emergencies, as well as other major crises. This evaluation synthesis focuses on nine key areas of the humanitarian system's response to the pandemic: sense-making and resource mobilization; needs prioritization and inclusion of the most vulnerable; adaptation of the humanitarian system; meeting the needs; localization; community engagement; coordination and collaboration with partners; utilization of learning from the Ebola and other public health responses; and evidence gaps and areas for further research. Download main report file
- Topic:
- Crisis Management, Public Health, Pandemic, COVID-19, Monitoring, Humanitarian Assistance, and Evaluation
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
266. Hermanos fi al-Muqawama, Brothers in the Resistance
- Author:
- Amy Fallas
- Publication Date:
- 12-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- In the heat of parallel struggles against imperial oppression, one of the most prominent historical ideologues of El Salvador’s revolutionary movement played a key role in forging solidarity with the Middle East.
- Topic:
- Imperialism, Solidarity, History, and Schafik Handal
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Palestine, and El Salvador
267. A Genocidal Special Relationship
- Author:
- Carlota McAllister
- Publication Date:
- 12-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Guatemala and Israel boast a long friendship dating to the formation of the Zionist state. Their shared histories of violence against Mayas and Palestinians bely each state’s claims to liberation.
- Topic:
- Genocide, History, Bilateral Relations, and Zionism
- Political Geography:
- Israel, Palestine, Central America, and Guatemala
268. In the U.S. South, Latin American Diaspora Organizes for Palestinian Liberation
- Author:
- Álvaro José Mejía Arias, Roxana Bendezú, Ramón Mejía, Alyssah Roth, Alex Trejo, and Victor Urquiza
- Publication Date:
- 12-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- From Texas to North Carolina, Latine solidarity organizers connect the dots between U.S. imperialism in the Americas and Israel’s colonization of Palestine.
- Topic:
- Imperialism, Diaspora, Protests, Colonization, and Organizing
- Political Geography:
- Israel, Palestine, Latin America, and United States of America
269. For Palestine, from Ayiti
- Author:
- Sandy Plácido
- Publication Date:
- 12-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Apartheid and genocide in the occupied territories hold up a mirror to the racist exclusion of Haitians and Black people in the Dominican Republic. Anti-imperialist solidarity is imperative.
- Topic:
- Apartheid, Genocide, Solidarity, Exclusion, Racism, and Anti-Imperialism
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Palestine, Latin America, Caribbean, and Haiti
270. The Campus Rebellion for Palestine
- Author:
- Conor Tomás Reed, Camila Azeñas, William Armando Hurtado Barrero, Ana González, and Camilo Godoy Pichón
- Publication Date:
- 12-2024
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
- Abstract:
- Across the hemisphere, students demanded an end to the genocide in Gaza. How they navigated repression and resistance offers lessons for the solidarity movement.
- Topic:
- Genocide, Repression, Students, Universities, 2023 Gaza War, and Organizing
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, and United States of America