The Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), One of the world’s leading teams working on humanitarian issues, has just published their new research which reveals the humanitarian sector’s failure to adapt to a rapidly changing world. The HPG are dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate.
Despite a decade of system-wide reforms, the humanitarian sector is still falling short in the world’s most enduring crises.
The humanitarian system is simply not doing a good job in the eyes of the people it aims to help.
It is time for the humanitarian sector to let go of some of the fundamental – but outdated – assumptions, structures and behaviours that prevent it from adapting to meet the needs of people in crises.
This is a proposal for radical change to create a humanitarian system that is fit to respond to the challenges of both today and tomorrow. It calls for:
It is based on the findings of a larger report, ‘Time to let go: remaking humanitarian action for the modern era’.
To download and read their report, click on the image below;
For more information about the HPG’s research and work, please visit their website here
