To celebrate World Humanitarian Day (19 August) and commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Sinjar Massacre (3 August), the Capacity4dev team reached out to the implementers and beneficiaries of an EU-funded project led by UN-Habitat between 2020 and 2023, focused on improving the...
The coronavirus pandemic is a crisis that requires unprecedent efforts from a truly global response. No one yet knows how long it will take and how its impacts will shape the future of our societies, but learning from concrete and...
Launch event on the occasion of the release of operational notes Monday, 20 May 2019, 14:00 – 18:00 at L-L-42 (Rue de la Loi 42, 1000 Brussels) The EU has produced in 2019 the Guidance Package (GP) on providing Social Protection...
The European Commission created the Guidance Package (GP) on Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (SPaN) to provide concrete and practical guidance to social protection as an effective short- and long-term...
EU Social Protection Across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (SPaN) Country Case Studies.
This group promotes the sharing of social protection approaches, knowledge, lessons learned and best practice between the EU, development partners and social protection practitioners, and those simply wanting to learn more about social protection.
Most of the humanitarian response in Somalia remains focused on short-term assistance that doesn’t address the underlying causes of poverty and vulnerability among Somali communities. The growing consensus among international...
Four-fifths of humanitarian crises now last five years or more, causing traditional short-term responses to become increasingly recurrent. It is therefore important to start thinking long-term while responding to immediate needs.
