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BBC Media Action DFID global grant summary September 2012 [PDF - 2.8 MB]opens in a new window
01 September 2012
Summary of DFID global grant to BBC Media Action from Autumn 2011
The Economics of Early Response and Disaster Resilience: Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia [PDF - 1.2 MB]opens in a new window
31 August 2012
The study uses Kenya and Ethiopia as case studies, comparing the relative costs of late humanitarian response, early response, and building resilience to disasters
DFID Palestinian Programme Operational Plan 2011-2015 [PDF - 370 KB]opens in a new window
01 June 2012
This Operational Plan sets out the vision, priorities and results that will be delivered in Occupied Palestinian Territories.
DFID Conflict Humanitarian and Security Department Operational Plan 2011-2015 [PDF - 249 KB]opens in a new window
CHASE responds to humanitarian needs arising from conflict and natural disasters. It also works to identify emerging risks in order to build greater security and access to justice, and improve the resilience of communities in order to prevent conflict ...
Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises: A DFID strategy paper [PDF - 676 KB]opens in a new window
01 February 2012
This strategy sets out how the Government plan to deliver on commitments to include humanitarian issues as a core part of DFID's research and evidence work, and to use innovative techniques and technologies in its humanitarian response.
Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises: Summary [PDF - 214 KB]opens in a new window
Summary of the DFID strategy, ‘Promoting innovative and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises’.
What does disaster resilience mean for DFID - summary paper [PDF - 369 KB]opens in a new window
23 November 2011
Building disaster resilience is the term we use to describe the process of helping communities and countries to be better prepared to withstand and rapidly recover from a shock such as an earthquake, drought, flood or cyclone.
Defining disaster resilience - full report [PDF - 2.5 MB]opens in a new window
This Approach Paper is intended to inform the next phase of DFID’s work on resilience to both natural and man-made disasters by providing a starting point for discussion within the Department and with our partners.
The UK Government's Humanitarian Policy - September 2011 - Final [PDF - 295 KB]opens in a new window
15 September 2011
New policy sets out how the UK will help build resilience to future disasters and respond to humanitarian need created by conflict and natural disasters
Saving lives, preventing suffering and building resilience [PDF - 295 KB]opens in a new window
This Humanitarian Policy outlines how the UK will help build resilience to crises and respond to humanitarian need resulting from conflict and natural disasters
DFID Palestinian Programme Operational Plan 2011-2015: 2011 version [PDF - 142 KB]opens in a new window
01 July 2011
DFID Conflict Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE) Operational Plan 2011-2015: 2011 version [PDF - 149 KB]opens in a new window
15 June 2011
Humanitarian Emergency Response Review: UK government response [PDF - 1.3 MB]opens in a new window
01 June 2011
The Humanitarian Emergency Response Review requires a step change in the way we work, in our humanitarian work and in our development work. This response document sets out what that step change will look like.
Humanitarian Emergency Response Review [PDF - 2 MB]opens in a new window
28 March 2011
This review makes a series of high level policy, and some down to earth practical, recommendations intended to bring this change about.
Multilateral Aid Review: Assessment of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) [PDF - 40 KB]opens in a new window
01 March 2011
UNHCR provides international protection and humanitarian assistance to refugees and other persons of concern while working to find durable solutions to their situation.
Multilateral Aid Review: Assessment of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [PDF - 39 KB]opens in a new window
OCHA is an entity in the UN Secretariat that supports the mobilization, funding, coordination and policy setting of humanitarian action in response to both protracted and rapid onset emergencies.
Multilateral Aid Review: Assessment of the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) [PDF - 44 KB]opens in a new window
CERF is a humanitarian fund established by the UN to enable more timely and reliable humanitarian assistance to those affected by natural disasters and armed conflicts.
Literature Review on the Constraints to Investment in Developing Countries [PDF - 688 KB]opens in a new window
31 December 2010
Literature review on Development reyrnto the DFI investments in private sector enterprises
DFID’s Expenditure on humanitarian assistance 2009/10 [PDF - 347 KB]opens in a new window
20 December 2010
This report evaluates DFID’s Humanitarian Assistance spending during the financial year 2009/10.
DFID’s expenditure on humanitarian assistance 2008-2009 [PDF - 169 KB]opens in a new window
24 May 2010
This report is an analysis of DFID’s Humanitarian Assistance spending during the financial year 2008-2009