published December 2007
Contents
General articlesHumanitarian action: a Western-dominated enterprise in need of change
John Holmes
The Global Humanitarian Platform: opportunity for NGOs?
Elizabeth Ferris
Challenges of collective humanitarian response in Sri Lanka
Firzan Hashim
Unity in diversity – the One UN, UNHCR and Rwanda
Tim Maurer
UNHCR, IDPs and humanitarian reform
Jeff Crisp, Esther Kiragu and Vicky Tennant
Is humanitarian reform improving IDP protection and assistance?
Anne Davies
Reform in focus: the IFRC perspective
Robert Mister
Integration and UN humanitarian reforms
Eric Stobbaerts, Sarah Martin and Katharine Derderian
Insecure environments: the missing piece?
Matthew Benson
Iraq: towards a field-focused humanitarian reform
Cedric Turlan
Strengthening the Humanitarian Coordinator system
Claire Messina
Neglect of the third pillar
Manisha Thomas
Humanitarian reform: a view from CAR
Toby Lanzer
Humanitarian reform: saving and protecting lives in DRC
Ross Mountain
Assessing the impact of humanitarian reform in DRC
Nicki Bennett
The state of humanitarian funding
Peter Walker and Kevin Pepper
Worlds apart? Muslim donors and international humanitarianism
Mohammed R Kroessin
Cluster approach – a vital operational tool
Allan Jury and Giammichele De Maio
Early recovery from disaster: the Pakistan earthquake
Andrew MacLeod
The education cluster in Pakistan
Brenda Haiplik
Gender and reform: getting the right data right
Henia Dakkak, Lisa Eklund and Siri Tellier
Funding challenges for the CCCM cluster
Jane Wanjiru Muigai
Managing environmental issues: a case for substantive reform
Andrew Morton and David Jensen
Elephants in the humanitarian room
Tim Morris
Hard questions for the future of the humanitarian enterprise
Antonio Donini
Regular contributorsIraq: growing needs amid continuing displacement
Andrew Harper
Iraqi refugees in Egypt
Lynn Yoshikawa
Darfur debated
Roberta Cohen
Year of displaced people’s rights in Colombia
Marco Alberto Romero
Resettlement for Bhutanese refugees
Christer Lænkholm
Bulgaria’s treatment of asylum seekers
Valeria Ilareva
Does the world of international aid need a watchdog?
Asmita Naik
Beyond presence: protection interventions on the ground
Rosa da Costa
Profiling IDP populations: new guidelines
Jens-Hagen Eschenbächer and Tom Delrue
Role of the private sector in humanitarian response
Soraya Narfeldt
RAISE – Challenges of collecting baseline data in emergency settings
Jennifer Schlecht and Sara Casey
Brookings-Bern – Towards a research agenda on internal displacement
Elizabeth Ferris
Nowegian Refugee Council – The Cluster Approach in northern Uganda
Jessica Huber and Nina M Birkeland
IDMC – The Great Lakes Process: new opportunities for protection
Jesse Bernstein and Olivia Bueno
RSC – The challenge of humanitarian reform: linking scholarship to policy and practice
Roger Zetter
Endnote – Resisting displacement: IDPs in Colombia