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Humanitarian Policy Group

HPG is one of the world's leading teams working on humanitarian issues. We are dedicated to improving humanitarian policy and practice through a combination of high-quality analysis, dialogue and debate.
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Independent review of the humanitarian response to internal displacement

This review of the humanitarian system’s approach to internally displaced persons (IDPs) finds that the response is fundamentally flawed and presents a series of recommendations.

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Our projects

HPG's Integrated Programme: People, power and agency

HPG’s Integrated Programme (IP) combines cutting edge research on humanitarian policy and practice, extensive policy engagement, and convening and communications. Our 2022–2024 IP has five projects which explore how humanitarians can better engage with the social and political dynamics that influence humanitarian assistance.

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Climate change, conflict and displacement: how internally displaced persons (IDPs) cope and adapt

Many of today's displacement crises are driven by a complex mix of climate and environmental change, disasters, conflict and fragility. This project seeks to reframe discussions around climate change, conflict and displacement by focusing not on how these three phenomena impact one another, but rather on how they impact people's lives.

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HPG's Integrated Programme (2019–2021)

Our work is directed by our Integrated Programme (IP), a body of research examining critical issues facing humanitarian policy and practice, designed in consultation with our Advisory Group. This is complemented by commissioned studies, evaluations and communications and networking activity.

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The Humanitarian Policy Group's Integrated Programme

HPG team

  1. Event recap: Sounding the alarm on Sudan’s hunger crisis

    Insight

  2. Independent review of the humanitarian response to internal displacement

    Research reports

  3. Policy Conference: What’s next for EU migration and development policy?

    Event

  4. Can ‘the West’ be trusted? The future of European humanitarian aid

    Insight

  5. Sounding the alarm on Sudan’s hunger crisis

    Event

  6. Community engagement with armed actors: implications for proactive protection and violence reduction

    Event

  7. Community engagement with armed actors in South Sudan: reducing violence and protection risks

    Case/country studies

  8. Event recap: Overcoming inertia in Myanmar, Syria, Somalia and neglected crises

    Insight

  9. How can governments better support diaspora contributions to social, cultural and economic development?

    Insight

  10. From inertia to empowerment: supporting neglected crises in Myanmar, Syria and Somalia

    Insight

  11. Better humanitarian responses to SRHR in crises: mapping the architecture for change

    Meeting/conference reports

  12. Overcoming inertia: Myanmar, Syria, Somalia and neglected crises

    Event

  13. There's no such thing as social cohesion! What aid actors need to understand about the social relations of displaced people

    Insight

  14. Global approaches to refugee response - what difference can they make?

    Insight

  15. Excluding refugee-led organisations (RLOs) from the formal refugee response is a lose-lose: Three reasons why RLOs need to be front and centre at this Global Refugee Forum

    Insight

  16. Event recap: The humanitarian implications of a backlash on rights

    Insight

  17. The nature of social cohesion? Lessons from relations between Afghan refugees and their neighbours in Pakistan

    Case/country studies

  18. Exploring Karen refugee youths' aspirations and wellbeing amidst protracted displacement in Thailand

    Working papers

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