Publications | Humanitarian Outcomes

December 2022

Where Next? The Evolving Landscape of Cash and Voucher Policies

Performance, Reform and Financing

An exploration of how early policy commitments impacted the evolution of CVA, and what the CVA policy landscape looks like now

June 2022

Enabling the local response: Emerging humanitarian priorities in Ukraine March–May 2022

Humanitarian Rapid Research Initiative (HRRI)

Performance, Reform and Financing

This brief describes the state of the humanitarian response in Ukraine three months after Russia’s military invasion

March 2022

Blog: ECHO’s new cash policy – what’s good and what’s missing?

Performance, Reform and Financing

ECHO Thematic Policy on humanitarian cash

April 2020

Linking Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance

Performance, Reform and Financing

June 2018

Start Fund Involvement in 'Under the Radar' Crises: An External Analysis

Performance, Reform and Financing

This report, one of a series of externally commissioned ‘learning reviews’, aims to support the Start Fund’s definition of ‘under the radar’ crises and the application of the term in Start Fund processes.

May 2018

Multi-Purpose Cash and Sectoral Outcomes

Performance, Reform and Financing

A Review of Evidence and Learning

January 2018

Rapid Real-Time Review: DFID Somalia Drought Response

Performance, Reform and Financing

Rapid real-time review of DFID's Somalia drought response.

December 2017

Efficiency and Inefficiency in Humanitarian Financing

Efficiency Study of Global Humanitarian Financing

Performance, Reform and Financing

A comparative study of efficiency among the main humanitarian funding modalities.

March 2017

Independent Review of CERF Allocations to Syrian Conflict and Regional Refugee Crisis (Lebanon, Jordan and Syria)

Performance, Reform and Financing

One of a number of country studies for the OCHA administered Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF); evaluating the use of the Fund against the criteria set by the Fund's Performance and Evaluation Framework (PAF).

February 2017

Evaluation of Multi-year Planning

Performance, Reform and Financing

A major study of UN led, multi-year planning frameworks for humanitarian action.

October 2015

The State of the Humanitarian System, 2015 Edition

Performance, Reform and Financing

The State of the Humanitarian System (SOHS) is an independent study that compiles the latest statistics on the size and scope of the humanitarian system and assesses overall performance and progress every few years.