It now goes beyond humanitarian responses to engage with development objectives in more formal ways.
Oxfam's programmes, campaigns and humanitarian responses are informed by solid evidence.
To what extent are improvements to humanitarian responses inhibited by the slow pace of reform within the UN system?
Major international humanitarian responses are often not closely tied to local organisations and politicians that understand their communities' ongoing needs.
Women and men also have different skillsets and areas of expertise which, if utilised correctly, can alter the effectiveness of humanitarian responses and overall community resilience.
We need this fund because global humanitarian responses have always given lower priority and fewer resources to education than to other essentials like basic health care, shelter and nutrition.
"The demands of these potential humanitarian responses may significantly tax U.S. military transportation and support force structures, resulting in a strained readiness posture and decreased strategic depth for combat operations," the report said.
"But now there's a lot of concern that immigration functions are being subsumed into enforcement and that humanitarian responses will be ratcheted down in terms of priorities," Mr. Carey said in a telephone interview from New York.
The Global Alliance for Urban Crises, which officially launches next week at the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, is an ambitious attempt to re-envision humanitarian responses in cities.
My focus was on humanitarian responses to armed conflict (rather than, say, natural disasters, or peace-time economic development) and on how, time and again, aid serves to cater conflicts, or to transform a crisis into the status quo.
It also underscores a crucial point about humanitarian responses to violations of human rights: outrage and outpourings of sympathy and aid may save some lives, but -- as the 20th century would show time and again -- they have little real impact in the face of state interests that militate against intervention.
