How to Build a Humanitarian Response Plan that Makes a Difference: Tips on Accountability and Cash

Author(s)
Tholstrup, S. & Sattler, M.
Publication language
English
Pages
1pp
Date published
23 Sep 2020
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), Disaster preparedness, resilience and risk reduction, Disasters, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, humanitarian action, Livelihoods, Poverty, Response and recovery

CaLP’s Sophie Tholstrup and Ground Truth Solutions’ Meg Sattler reflect on how to use the humanitarian planning process to build more effective, people-centred responses.

The first half of 2020 has given a few reasons for optimism. And as humanitarian planning for 2021 gets underway, relief agencies and donors will be grappling with the acute challenges of skyrocketing needs and tightening donor budgets in the midst of a devastating pandemic. The task now, more than ever before, is to ensure that every aid dollar has the greatest impact – and meets recipients’ most basic needs.

Authors: 
Tholstrup, S. & Sattler, M.