Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2012

The GHA report tries to answer some of the basic questions about the way that the world finances response to crisis and vulnerability. How much is spent on humanitarian assistance? Where does it go? What is it spent on? Who spends it? The aim is to provide clear, objective evidence on resources, easily accessible on paper and online, so that decisions and policy can be better informed.

For a number of years now, the GHA reports have highlighted the data on resources for people who live on the edge of crisis, in chronic poverty and where violent conflict is common and states are fragile. as the GHA report 2012 points out, building the resilience of vulnerable populations is an essential part of achieving the millennium development Goals (mdGs) and is not well served by responses that create a false partition between chronic poverty and vulnerability to crisis. Since the G20 in korea in 2010, building resilience has become an increasingly visible policy concern. the GHA report 2012 includes new data that is of particular relevance to this area.