Literature monitoring

The GHA report provides a critical body of evidence to inform the sector about its financial size, how its finances are distributed, and what key trends require our focus if we want to protect and improve the funding response to crisis. The report 2025 sets out the scale and nature of disruption affecting humanitarian funding, providing a critical tool for navigating an unprecedented moment of political and economic change.

On the 25th anniversary of Resolution 1325, building the foundations of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, this report explores how women-led civil society organisations and feminist activists are reimagining the Agenda “from below” in four contexts: Lebanon, Sudan, Syria and Turkey. This paper particularly centers on the organizing practices that persist despite shrinking civic space, economic collapse and ongoing violence.

Mutual aid has been a lifeline for many in Sudan’s conflict. This study explores how mechanisms of social solidarity have been shaped by the war as well as by their interaction with external funders. It adds to the evidence base on community-led response during protracted crises and on conflict sensitivity, and considers how international actors could strengthen the quality of their partnership with grass-roots bodies by reconsidering approaches to risk and accountability.