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This website aims to provide a simple, searchable database of articles related to local humanitarian assistance. This database is for anyone attempting to design programs, policy, or new research based on the available evidence. The Feinstein International Center built and maintains this evolving database.

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'Recently-noticed' aid actors: MSF interaction with a changing humanitarian landscape

Hofman, Tiller (MSF)

A Maori love story: community-led disaster management in response to Otuatahi earthquake as a framework for action

Kenney, Phibbs, Paton, Reid, Johnston (Australian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies)

A missing link? Diaspora's place in an enhanced international humanitarian system

Author unspecified (DEMAC)

A more dignified and equitable humanitarian system

Author unspecified (NEAR Network)

A new business model for humanitarian assistance?

Author unspecified (World Economic Forums' Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Assistance)

After Ebola: why and how capacity-building to Sierra Leone's health sector needs to change

Denney, Mallett, Jalloh (ODI)

Aid inside Syria: time to go small in a bigger way

Grigsgraber, Reynolds (Refugees International)

An African perspective on capacity-building

Pardington, Coyne (Forced Migration Review)

Autonomy or dependence: North-South NGO Partnerships

Brehm (INTRAC)

Balancing principles and needs: capacity-building in South Sudan

Mande (HPN)

Band aids and beyond: tackling disaster in Ethiopia

Martlew (Oxfam)

Be careful what you wish for

DuBois (IRIN)

Beyond humanitarian assistance? UNHCR and response to Syrian refugees in Jordan

Hidalgo, LaGuardia, Trudi, Sole, Moussa, van Dijk, Merckx, Zimmer (UNHCR)

Breaking the hourglass: partnerships in remote management - Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan

Howe, Stites, Chudacoff (Feinstein International Center)

Bridging national and international support: Building Trust: Challenges for national authorities and international aid agencies in working together in times of d

Harvey, Harmer (IFRC)

Building capacity in Sierra Leone

Abirafeh (Forced Migration Review)

Building the future of humanitarian aid: local capacity and partners in emergency response

Nightingale (Christian Aid)

Calling our bluff on capacity building

James (INTRAC)

Can using local actors strengthen them?

Ali, King, Rabinowitz (ODI)

Capacity building for local NGOs: a guidance manual for good practice

Thomas (CIIR)

Capacity development from the inside in

Thomas, Bliss (Forced Migration Review)

Capacity development in fragile environments

Brinkerhoff (European Centre for Development Policy Management)

Capacity development in humanitarian crises

Mutiara, van Poelje, Smillie, (PSO)

Capacity-building: an approach to people-centered development

Eade (Oxfam)

Capacity-development humanitarian crises

Tukker, van Poelie (PSO)