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Partner at Humanitarian Outcomes humanitarianoutcomes.org Co-Director BASIC research www.ids.ac.uk/programme-and-centre/…

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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The brilliant Sultan Barkat 's report on how Gulf State actors support social assistance in crises has just been published - socialprotection.org/discover/pub...
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Humanitarian Outcomes @humoutcomes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New report from @prhho.bsky.social , Orzala Nemat, @abbystoddard.bsky.social, and Glyn Taylor on the response to the 2025 Afghanistan earthquake. Read it here - humanitarianoutcomes.org/Afghanistan_... Join us for a webinar next week on the topic: October 29 @ 15:00GMT shorturl.at/hXkAE
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
An Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) report on UK aid to Sudan is out - icai.independent.gov.uk/review/uk-ai... Lots of detail and balance. Congrats to those involved.
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UK aid to Sudan - an Independent Commission for Aid Impact review
Find out more about ICAI's review assessing the UK’s support for Sudan and people affected by the crisis in neighbouring countries
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Humanitarian Outcomes @humoutcomes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
2025 Aid Worker Security Report - Defenceless: Aid worker security amid the humanitarian funding collapse, is now available for download here - humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSR_2025 #WHD2025 #ActForHumanity #Notatarget @unocha.org @abbystoddard.bsky.social
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The lack of accountability over sexual violence crimes in Tigray, Amhara and Afar has triggered yet more violence, says a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Organisation for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa.
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Silence over sexual violence in Ethiopia enables yet more abuse, says report
The failure to hold perpetrators to account has fueled revenge attacks.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Mark your diaries for - www.ids.ac.uk/events/inves... No-one suggests trying to run a health system without doctors and nurses but in too many crises we're trying to provide assistance without investing in the workforce needed to do it properly. Monday 21st July at 2pm UK time
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Investing in local social protection workers in protracted crises - Institute of Development Studies
This event will explore the opportunities for smarter investment in frontline capacities for social protection in deepening crises.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Deadline for submitting evidence to the high level panel on social protection in settings of conflict and fragility is July 6th. Get your thoughts in while you can www.surveymonkey.com/r/enquiry_so...
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Global Public Enquiry
The High-Level Panel on Social Protection in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings convenes this public enquiry to address the urgent and complex challenges of delivering and sustaining social protec...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Where next for social protection financing in crises asks Sophia Swithern and Kirsty Lazer for BASIC Research @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/fin...
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Humanitarian Outcomes @humoutcomes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Interested in humanitarian security risk management? Visit the Good Practice Review 8, 3rd edition, interactive website to explore all the book content, security terms glossary, further resources, and much more ➡️ gpr8.humanitarianoutcomes.org
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The always useful humanitarian evidence summary is out for June - k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/k4d...
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K4DD Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary No.12
This monthly Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary aims to signpost to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Also just out by Gabrielle smith for the STAAR Facility a magisterial synthesis of lessons from six country studies on maintaining and strengthening social assistance in conflict settings. socialprotection.org/discover/pub...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Whilst we're on good questions - Is Poverty Underestimated Because Males and Females Report Food Security and Food Expenses Differently? ask Camelia Vasilov , Rachel Sabates-Wheeler and Mats Hoppenbrouwers for BASIC Research (short answer is yes) - www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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Is Poverty Underestimated Because Males and Females Report Food Security and Food Expenses Differently? - Institute of Development Studies
Does the gender of household survey respondents affect the accuracy of reported food consumption? Findings from a randomisation-based survey of beneficiary households in the Productive Safety Net Prog...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A big question - Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate ‍Resilience in Conflict‑Affected Settings? - (the short answer is it could but it isn't) www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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Can Social Protection Programmes Promote Livelihoods and Climate ‍Resilience in Conflict‑Affected Settings? Evidence from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme - Institute of Development Studies
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Pr...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
And whilst I'm on brilliant BASIC Research work - there's a new paper by @beckycarter.bsky.social and Hassan-Alattar Satti on supporting mutual aid and community led responses in Sudan - www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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Supporting Mutual Aid in Sudan: Conflict-Sensitive Approaches to Risk and Accountability - Institute of Development Studies
This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war in Sudan, and by their interaction with external funders.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Hot off the press - An analysis of the challenges and opportunities for financing social protection on conflicts by the brilliant team of Sophia Swithern Niklas Rieger and Kirsty Lazer for BASIC Research - @ids.ac.uk www.ids.ac.uk/publications...
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Financing Social Protection in Protracted Crises - Institute of Development Studies
The paper discusses the growing interest in using social protection to address climate-related vulnerabilities and strengthen resilience, particularly in conflict-affected settings. It examines the Pr...
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Max Gallien @maxgallien.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
How much #zakat is being paid in #Pakistan during #Ramadan? Our research estimates the total is over 600 billion rupees - more than the state's main social support grant (BISP), more than the state collects in excise duty or in official development aid. Read more here: www.ictd.ac/blog/pakista...
A graph highlighting the estimated payment of zakat in Pakistan (619 billion rupees), compared to BISP, Federal Excise Duty and ODA
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🗣️ Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.
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The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse
Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.
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Abby Stoddard @abbystoddard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We may never know the true impact of the US foreign aid cuts, since losing the funding also means losing the ability to measure. Some colleagues and I wrote about the threat to humanitarian data. @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
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The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse
Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I've been reading a lot of reflections about how the USAID freeze is a moment to reflect on fundamental reform of humanitarian action. Whilst I'm all for reform and reflection that's been making me uneasy in a way I've been struggling to pin down. 1 of 3 or 4
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
New briefing by Proximity International and Rachel Slater on what's happening to social protection in Syria after the change of regime - www.proximityinternational.com/proximitylab
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Proximity Lab | Proximity International
The creative side of the Proximity brain.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excitingly the brilliant @verobarbelet.bsky.social now here on Bluesky
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Latest humanitarian access snapshot for Gaza - reliefweb.int/report/occup....
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Gaza Humanitarian Access Snapshot #8 (13 November - 10 December 2024) - occupied Palestinian territory
Analysis in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Food and Nutrition, Logistics and Telecommunications, Epidemic and more; published on 13 Dec 2024 by ACF, ActionAid and 26ount other organiz...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm late coming to this but this @newhumanitarian.bsky.social article on targeted killings of people involved in aid deliveries in Gaza by the Israeli army is vital reading - www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
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Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza
Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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Ugo Gentilini @ugentilini.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
New systematic lit review looks at #cashtransfers and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in #Africa. Hirvonen et al www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 09/12/2024
🚨We would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Hangout meetings of the Social Protection in Crisis Contexts Online Community scheduled for December 📅Wednesday, 11 December 🕒9:30am New York / 2:30pm London 🔗Register: tinyurl.com/4k525wdu 🗣️Open discussion +
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Ryan McNeill @mcneill.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
As part of our reporting, we used optical and radar sensors aboard earth observation satellites to track the expanding burial grounds at Zamzam. Here’s how we did it. www.reuters.com/investigates...
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How Reuters counted the dead in famine-stricken Sudan
No one knows how many people have died from the catastrophic hunger sweeping Sudan. But graves, counted from the sky, offer a clue to the devastation.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This @reuters.com report on famine in the Zamzam camp in Sudan is harrowingly brilliant journalism. Full of admiration for @mcneill.bsky.social @marianozafra.bsky.social @lenamasri.bsky.social and their colleagues - www.reuters.com/graphics/FAM...
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The world’s hunger watchdog warned of catastrophe in Sudan. Famine struck anyway.
Here’s how the world’s hunger monitoring-and-response system is supposed to work – and why it’s not achieving its mission.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Great blog by Sara Murray and Gabrielle Fox for CGAP - 'Can What Remains of Sudan’s Financial System Be Used to Fight Famine?' - www.cgap.org/blog/can-wha... 'The Bank of Khartoum’s Bankak app continues to offer a bright spot, facilitating over 50 million transactions since the start of the war.'
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Can What Remains of Sudan’s Financial System Be Used to Fight Famine?
December 4 marks 600 days of war in Sudan, one that has caused famine, mass displacement, and lost income. Cash transfers can save lives but need a functioning financial system to work - protecting Su...
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In early 2024, as northern Gaza hurtled towards famine under Israeli bombardment and siege, UN agencies launched an emergency effort to deliver food aid to those in desperate need. This is the story of how that effort came crashing down, under Israeli bombs and bullets 🧵
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Until STAAR arrive - I'll post their monthly updates - The November issue of the STAAR Evidence Digest is now live on socialprotection.org and includes the latest information on social protection & climate, conflict & cash transfer programming across the nexus socialprotection.org/discover/pub...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Via @ugentilini.bsky.social 's latest weekly links -‪ 'in Pakistan, combining cash transfers and lipid-based nutrition supplements is cost-effective for reducing stunting . Adding messages on nutrition, health, and hygiene information reduced cost-effectiveness' www.ugogentilini.net/links-nov-29...
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Links Nov 29 – Effects of food vouchers on future earnings in the US; benchmarking minimum income programs in the OECD; the future of social protection in high-income countries; the heterogenous paren...
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Centre on Armed Groups @armedgroups.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Explore the knowledge and expertise behind our work. This #StarterPack brings you closer to the Centre’s Experts, offering ongoing insights on conflict, armed groups, and peacebuilding from across the globe go.bsky.app/UkyRJUS
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
NEW PAPER: One common misconception about informal economies is that they do not pay taxes. In a new article, Nana Akua Anyidoho, Mike Rogan, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Max Gallien survey of 2500 informal workers in Accra to show that tax burdens can be real, regressive, & skewed: lnkd.in/ehpmRRgq
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LinkedIn
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, residents are digging foxholes to survive missile strikes and eating noxious animal feed to stave off hunger, reports Ahmed Gouja @qoga12: ⬇️
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Inside the battle for El Fasher: “Innocent lives are lost every day”
Vicious urban warfare has displaced half a million people and led to a famine declaration.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New on Bluesky is @humoutcomes.bsky.social where we’ll be posting our work on violence against aid workers, access challenges and more
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
OCHA press release draws on Humanitarian Outcomes aid worker security database which shows 2024 has become the deadliest year for aid workers with 281 people killed so far @tomfletcherun.bsky.social calls for an end to impunity - reliefweb.int/report/world...
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UN Relief Chief decries ‘bullets and bombs’ against aid workers - World
News and Press Release in English on World and 1 other country about Safety and Security; published on 22 Nov 2024 by OCHA
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Pierre Peron @pierreperon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Since 7 Oct 2023, 47% of attacks on health care – 65 out of 137 – have proven fatal to at least 1 health worker or patient in #Lebanon. This is a higher percentage than any active conflict today across the globe. In comparison, the global average is 13.3%. @who.int www.emro.who.int/media/news/l...
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Lebanon: a conflict particularly destructive to health care
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you're interested in social protection in crises do check out BASIC research www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an... here
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Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research - Institute of Development Studies
The intersection of conflict, displacement, and recurring climate shocks, combined with evolving humanitarian responses, poses challenges for effective social assistance in protracted crises. BASIC (B...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Report about a global forum on social protection in conflicts socialprotection.org/discover/pub...
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Forum on social protection in fragility and conflict: Building and protecting social protection systems through the Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus | socialprotection.org
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Sp.org webinar reflecting on a global forum on social protection in conflicts- socialprotection.org/learn/webina... 26th November at 14.00 uk time
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
New call for papers for an IDS conference on social and humanitarian assistance in crises in September 2025 www.ids.ac.uk/programme-an...
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Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research - Institute of Development Studies
The intersection of conflict, displacement, and recurring climate shocks, combined with evolving humanitarian responses, poses challenges for effective social assistance in protracted crises. BASIC (B...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
And our 2024 aid worker security report with a focus on advocacy - humanitarianoutcomes.org/AWSR_2024
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Aid Worker Security Report 2024 – Balancing advocacy and security in humanitarian action | Humanitarian Outcomes
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Our new Humanitarian Outcomes alert on attacks on national aid workers in Sudan humanitarianoutcomes.org/publications...
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Aid Worker Security Signal Alert: National aid workers facing increased fatal attacks in Sudan | Humanitarian Outcomes
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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 14/11/2024
@deepmala-mahla.bsky.social, CARE International's global humanitarian lead and a former colleague of mine is now on Bluesky, and added to this pack. go.bsky.app/DUo3MGi
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