Literature monitoring
Unlocking the Full Potential of Anticipatory Action, Position Paper, VOICE, 2025
This position paper represents the views of the members of the VOICE Resilience-Nexus Working Group, which aims to provide the humanitarian NGO perspective on the European approach to resilience, climate change and the implementation of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
https://voiceeu.org/publications/ppaa.pdf
Breaking Boundaries: Local and National Actors’ Engagement in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, Dorothy Mae Albiento, ALNAP, 2025
This report brings the voices of local and national actors (LNAs) in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus discussion. It highlights their perspectives and experiences in designing and implementing programmes that straddle the three systems. The report provides key insights to understand those experiences and puts forward recommendations for how the international system can better recognise and support the nexus-style work of LNAs.
https://alnap.cdn.ngo/media/documents/Breaking_boundaries_Local_national_actors_engagement_in_the_HDP_nexus.pdf
Lives on the Line: The human impact of US Foreign Aid Shifts, ICVA, 2025
ICVA has prepared this report to provide a snapshot of the immediate consequences and emerging trends resulting from the abrupt shifts U.S. foreign aid policy. Drafted in early February, it draws on insights from ICVA members, the broader NGO community, and public sources, as well as survey findings on how these changes are affecting NGOs’ operational and organisational capacities. Given the rapid evolving situation, this report does not aim to provide an exhaustive analysis but highlights a few key findings.
https://www.icvanetwork.org/uploads/2025/03/Lives-on-the-Line-Final-Report.pdf
Thematic literature reviews
Several times a year, “Documentary analyses”, focusing on a given subject often related to current events, are also carried out.
- Literature review 1: the humanitarian-development nexus in relation to the Grand Bargain, July 2018
- Literature review 2: from crisis prevention to the roots of fragility, December 2018
- Literature review 3: partnerships between public and private actors in situation of fragility, March 2019
- Literature review 4: Climate refugees – when climate change affects fragile contexts, October 2019