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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
with lots of thanks to the STAAR facility and FCDO for supporting the study
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A clear message from a workshop we held in December was the need to engage with Gulf actors support on their terms. Not please fund our projects now western governments aren't - but are there ways in which we can collaborate starting with a better appreciation of what Gulf actors are doing?
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It was a real privilege to work on it with him and opened my eyes to the importance of Gulf State aid to people in crises and the ways in which it is different from the Western aid system. UN agencies, INGOs and western donors need to do more to understand and engage with Gulf State actors
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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
Some things that struck me: FCDO fired its Sudanese staff after the evacuation of the embassy, surge hasn't worked, the office is under-staffed, restrictive security inhibits the ability of staff to get to Sudan and the approach to localisation has been limited and too cautious.
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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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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ooh - real work. Lots of good luck.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Looks like it - are you no longer there?
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There’s a long and ongoing tradition of work requirements in humanitarian relief with lots of odd terminology. Cash or food for work - as opposed to jobs
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
And tangential but maybe interesting- odi.org/en/publicati...
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Dependency and humanitarian relief: a critical analysis
In many emergency contexts, aid agencies hesitate to provide aid for extended periods because of fears that doing so may create ‘dependency’. These concerns can influence decisions about levels of ass...
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Maybe @ugentilini.bsky.social ‘s - academic.oup.com/book/58850/c...
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Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People Money
To Federica, Margherita, and Giovanni,the three shining stars of my firmament.
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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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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
There are always lots of excuses - short-term funding cycles, blaming the donors etc - but they often seem to me like fixable problems
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The answer in Yemen was pretty simple - pay the (mostly women) in lowest paid roles at community level more and provide more secure contracts
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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 · 31/07/2025
And look out for forthcoming work by @gauthiermarchais.bsky.social and colleagues on social assistance in Niger for BASIC research @ids.ac.uk
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Tune in @valentinabarca.bsky.social @ugentilini.bsky.social @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social
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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
ids.ac.uk
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 · 04/07/2025
Someone who’d been a fixer for a mining company helped me order, recommended a local ‘factory’ of little old ladies with sewing machines and worked for Concern for the next 15 years
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
As I sat in Dushanbe wondering how I was going to buy 30,000 blankets and get them to Afghanistan and doing a chicken impression to try and get fed 1/2
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Deadline extended to the 13th - so you can head to the beach for the weekend and still get it in
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Cc @knowlesmarco.bsky.social @richardchirchir.bsky.social @socialprotection.org @ugentilini.bsky.social
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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 · 26/06/2025
Huge congratulations @abbystoddard.bsky.social , Adelicia Fairbanks @marianaduqued.bsky.social MJ and all of the rest of the @humoutcomes.bsky.social team involved and all of the main other contributors and collaborators and HPN for publishing it @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social A vital resource.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And a Humanitarian Advisory Group evaluation of DEC funding for the floods in Pakistan - humanitarianadvisorygroup.org/insight/a-sn...
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A Snowball Effect: Lessons and Outcomes from the Dec’s Pakistan Floods Response 2022-2024 - Humanitarian Advisory Group
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
And a @heregeneva.bsky.social paper on principles in Sudan that I had missed - here-geneva.org/wp-content/u...
here-geneva.org
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A star for @beckycarter.bsky.social and Hassan-Alattar Satti 's great @ids.ac.uk paper on mutual aid 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 · 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
ccing @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social to put on your reading list for the high level panel on social protection in conflicts.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
All six studies on Yemen, Ethiopia, the Sahel region focusing on Niger and Burkina Faso, Sudan, Somalia and Armenia are also available at the STAAR Facility - socialprotection.org/connect/stak...
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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...
socialprotection.org
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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...
ids.ac.uk
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...
ids.ac.uk
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...
ids.ac.uk
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...
ids.ac.uk
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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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great to see this. A multi country study taking in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia next? (is on my wish list)
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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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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Not philosophy but good on the practical side of things - scienceportal.msf.org/assets/8593
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Misinformation in humanitarian programmes: Lessons from the MSF Listen experience | Journal Article / Commentary | MSF Science Portal
While health misinformation is important to address in humanitarian settings, over-focusing on it can obfuscate a more holistic underst...click to see more
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
and in navigating the ethical dilemmas that are being faced this @humoutcomes.bsky.social guide might be helpful - humanitarianoutcomes.org/humanitarian...
humanitarianoutcomes.org
No easy choice: A humanitarian’s guide to ethical, principled decision making | Humanitarian Outcomes
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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 think that's still true. Humanitarian aid reaches people and makes a difference and is delivered at considerable personal risk by dedicated professionals. Now feels to me like the moment to defend it and speak up for its fundamental values as well as continuing to try to make it better.
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
'aid is being provided successfully to people in desperate circumstances in difficult & often dangerous environments all over the world. Evaluations consistently find aid getting to people who need it & making a difference in enabling them to survive & recover during & after crises.' 3 of 4
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Paul Harvey @prhho.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When I reviewed hundreds of evaluations for the first State of the humanitarian system report for ALNAP (alnap.org/help-library... ) back in 2010 amidst all of the critiques and stuttering reform efforts my conclusion was: 2 of 3 or 4
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SOHS 2010 | Assessing the state of the humanitarian system pilot study
This report, commissioned under ALNAP’s Humanitarian Performance Project, aims to provide a system-level mapping and assessment of international humanitarian assistance. To this end, the report 1) def...
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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 · 19/02/2025
cc @beckycarter.bsky.social There were also papers on Sudan and Somalia and a synthesis paper and look out for a forthcoming paper on Sudan
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