Literature monitoring

How women lead: Women-led organisations as humanitarian crisis responders, Manny Maung, Caterina Mazzilli, Megan Daigle, HPG Working Paper, HPG, ODI, 2025
Women-led organisations (WLOs) play a critical role in leading responses to humanitarian crises and
meeting immediate needs, but they remain chronically underfunded and excluded from humanitarian
decision-making and coordination. This paper documents how WLOs play a critical role in responding to crises, using case studies to illustrate. Although WLOs have long asserted their importance during crisis response, their role has often been overlooked.
Coordinating in crisis: Strengthening NGO coordination and collective response in rapid onset humanitarian emergencies, Summary learning report, ICVA, 2025
The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of key lessons from recent humanitarian responses,
with a focus on international surge deployments and NGO coordination. The paper also proposes a set of concrete recommendations to enhance ways of working across NGOs and with the IASC system in complex, sudden onset emergencies.
Under Pressure: How INGOs are responding to the aid funding crisis and what it reveals about the fragility of localization commitments, NEAR, 2025
This review examines how INGOs have been responding to funding challenges, looking at what they are doing (or failing to do) to support their local and national partners. It highlights both good and bad practices, asking whether INGOs are upholding their localisation commitments or resorting to self-preservation.

Thematic literature reviews

Several times a year, “Documentary analyses”, focusing on a given subject often related to current events, are also carried out.