The scale and cadence of crises that demand international humanitarian response is increasing. The cumulative frequency and...
Featured Resources
-
The Signal Code: A Human Rights Approach to Information During Crisis
Visit the Signal Code Minisite
The Signal Code is the result of a six month study by the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to...
-
Negotiation with Non-State Armed Groups at the Frontlines
In many of today’s frontline humanitarian environments, access is increasingly difficult to obtain and maintain, and continued engagement with non-state armed actors is an integral aspect of ensuring assistance and protection activities and advocating for compliance with international legal...
-
Data preparedness: connecting data, decision making and humanitarian response
Signal Program Standards and Ethics Series - Issue 1
Data are a central component of humanitarian response. Frequently, however, there is a disconnect between data, decision-making and response. Informed decisions need to be made in the first hours and days of an emergency, and if the...
-
KoboToolbox’s Question Library
The KoBoToolbox Question Library enables users to create, store, share and re-use validated questions across surveys. This speeds up the process of creating new forms and contributes to the standardization of survey questions.
For more information, visit...
-
Humanitarian Needs Assessment Training
The Humanitarian Needs Assessment E-learning program is designed to provide an overview of the Humanitarian Needs Assessment process. The process can look very different depending on the scale of a disaster, the role of humanitarian organizations involved and the resources available to any...
-
Building a Better Response
The Building a Better Response e-learning course provides users with a comprehensive and practical introduction to engaging with the international humanitarian architecture. The e-learning component is publicly accessible free of charge.
All Resources
| Image | Title | Description |
Published |
Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Thomas Bossert | |||
 |
Measuring Peacebuilding Education and Advocacy, Strategic Level Results and Beyond Webinar |
With support from UNICEF Learning for Peace Program, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative is conducting a series of knowledge, attitude, and perception (KAP) surveys to measure the relationship between education and peacebuilding measures, including social cohesion and resilience, in 5 selected... |
||
| home: Philippines Report | ||||
|
|
Bridget Marchesi |
During 2014-2015, Bridget worked with Dr. Phuong Pham and Dr. Patrick Vinck on a Harvard-led evaluation of the Colombian Victims' Unit and its implementation of the Victims' Law. As an HHI Fellow her work will build on some of the early findings of the Harvard-led Colombia study. The... |
||
| Sometimes when the rebels attack |
Sometimes when the rebels attack us here, we would run to another community or area. The people there would host us. Feed us and even give us their huts to live in until the situation calms down, then we... |
|||
 |
Katie Bates |
Katie Bates has had a diverse and exciting professional background. She has over six years working in the publishing industry, six years building and managing professional development programming, and more than twelve years in project management. She has partnered in the design and delivery of... |
||
|
|
Gregory R. Ciottone | |||
 |
Adrienne Fricke |
Adrienne L. Fricke is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative where she is studying policy initiatives to improve access to healthcare for Syrian refugees, and a consultant specializing in human rights and refugee-related issues in the Middle East and Africa. Since 2007, she has... |
||
| Workshop: Monitoring and Evaluation Shanghai | ||||
 |
Patrick Vinck |
Patrick Vinck, Ph.D. is the Research Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. He is assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and lead investigator at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. His current research examines resilience,... |
||
| Migrants and asylum seekers queue up at Mytilene Port on the Greek island of Lesvos waiting for police clearance. | ||||
|
|
Anas Khan | |||
| Research: Publications | ||||
| world_bank_-_sanitation_entrepreneurs_bangladesh.jpg | ||||
| un-view-of-fishing-harbour-in-mogadishu-somalia.jpg | ||||
| HRIC Topics | ||||
| The beginnings (1985-1990) |
The oppression of northern Ugandans, particularly the Acholi ethnic group, by the southern dominated government led to the creation of multiple armed resistance groups. In 1988, Joseph Kony formed the most famous one: the group that would become the LRA. Kony is part of the Acholi tribe... |
|||
| home: Annual Report 2015 | ||||
| Innovation: People | ||||
 |
Erica Nelson |
Erica L Nelson, MD, PhM is an Emergency Medicine physician who conducts research on critical geography and the use of geospatial analysis for public health and humanitarian response. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin with an PhM in International Peace Studies and Development (2007),... |
||
 |
Data and Technology in Humanitarian Response Workshop |
In December of 2015, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will host a workshop focused on data and technology in humanitarian response. This working meeting will convene 35-40 experts and technologists from international NGOs, UN agencies, and other sectors to explore... |
||
| Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course: Registration Information | ||||
| NCD: Quote | ||||
 |
Humanitarian Funding Mechanisms | Link | ||
| The ICRC delivered water and food to Nahr al-Bared on Saturday, but access to thousands in need remains limited. |