Secure Access in Volatile Environments (SAVE)

The Secure Access in Volatile Environments (SAVE) programme explores how to deliver humanitarian aid in some of the most challenging conflict environments. Based on three years of field work in four countries – Afghanistan, South Central Somalia, South Sudan and Syria – it is the first major effort to answer some of the aid world’s most critical questions about how much aid is getting to war zones and how much that aid is helping.

SAVE is a three year research programme by Humanitarian Outcomes and GPPi. An international team of researchers worked with local partners in the world’s four most dangerous aid settings, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. This included field and global-level primary data collection, over 900 interviews with aid workers and a survey of over 4,000 affected people. Thirty workshops were held in the case study countries to verify the findings, as well as workshops in the US and Europe.