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„Das größte lösbare Problem der Welt“: Die mediale Vernachlässigung des Globalen Hungers

Ladislaus Ludescher

Heidelberg: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (2025), 293 pp.

"Hunger gehört zu den elementarsten menschlichen Erfahrungen. Etwa jeder zehnte Mensch auf der Welt hungert. Jeden Tag sterben etwa 24.000 Menschen an den Folgen von Hunger, etwa alle 13 Sekunden ein Kind unter 5 Jahren. Hunger ist aber keineswegs ein unabwendbares Schicksal. Das Welternährungspro ... more

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Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures

Jenna Imad Harb

Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.

"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re ... more

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Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring

Stephanie Diepeveen, John Bryant, Wasuge Mahad

Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 14 pp.

"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit ... more

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Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
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London: Care International (2025), 26 pp.

"Humanitarian crises are challenges affecting millions of people. They are diverse and global – be they natural disasters, famine crises, conflicts or wars. However, the attention of the global public is usually focused on a few, particularly prominent crises. With this Crisis Report, which is bei ... more

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Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2023

London: Care International (2024), 26 pp.

"For the second year in a row, all ten of the most under-reported crises are in Africa. From conflict in Angola to climate change in Zimbabwe, every entry in this report represents countless human tragedies taking place in the shadows of the world’s gaze. Our second most under-reported crisis coun ... more

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Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response. Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

London: CDAC Network (2024), 4 pp.

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The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites

Rebecca Sutton, Richard Stupart

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 81-98

"This article interrogates the simplistic juxtaposition of protectors and protected in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites, by asking: who was civilian in South Sudan, and how were civilians being protected? We present a civilian landscape that is much broader and more complex than t ... more

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Advancing disaster risk communications

I. S. Stewart

Earth-Science Reviews, volume 249, issue 104677 (2024), 14 pp.

"Effective communication of disaster threats to decision makers and at-risk communities is a growing challenge in a people-centred approach to disaster risk reduction. Traditional communication approaches tend to involve either top-down risk management practices or bottom-up community health and edu ... more

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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Inspiring Practice

Lisa Bradley, Emma Heywood (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.

"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers ... more

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Mapping humanitarian tech: Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

Giulio Coppi

Access Now (2024), 69 pp.

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Introducing Anticipatory Action: A Feasibility Study for Malteser International

Marie Wagner, Alexander Gaus, Julia Steets

Berlin: Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI);Malteser International (2024), 36 pp.

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Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective

ITU-WMO-UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management

Geneva: ITU (2024), viii, 14 pp.

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AI and natural disaster analysis: Needs analysis during disaster using Artificial Intelligence by Citibeats, February 2018 - September 2021

Citibeats;UNESCO (2024), 21 pp.

"The main conclusions drawn from the analysis of online opinions during natural disasters in Africa are highlighted below: Climate change is one of the main concerns of the African population in recent years. This climate problem is considered to be causing more and greater natural disasters on the ... more

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Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid

Margie Cheesman

Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.

"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa ... more

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Aid and the news agenda: Examining the forces shaping NGO-produced humanitarian media

Michael Sunderland

Bournemouth University, Doctoral Thesis (2024), 268 pp.

"This study examines the external influences that shape NGO-produced news content concerning humanitarian crises in East, West and Central Africa. Employing a thematic analysis of semi-structured in-depth interviews with humanitarian communicators and a content analysis of the humanitarian press rel ... eases of four major NGOs, it seeks to establish the types of content NGO communications staff consider most effective for achieving mainstream media coverage, how they access such content, and any forces influencing their eventual production of news. In line with notions of media logic (Altheide and Snow 1979; Cottle and Nolan 2007) and news cloning (Fenton 2010), it uncovers a reliance on hard-hitting humanitarian statistics and powerful first-person testimonies, which are considered essential for achieving news coverage. Statistics are found to be most often sourced from publicly available humanitarian datasets, often managed by the United Nations, and are considered susceptible to politicisation by authorities implicated in certain crises. First-person testimonies are usually gathered in-person by NGO staff and are affected by issues of physical access to crisis zones including monitoring by local authorities and demands for media sign-off. Additionally, a humanitarian NGO’s decision on whether to speak out publicly about a crisis is found to be often weighed up against threats to staff and programme safety. Examining these issues through a lens of agenda building theory (Cobb and Elder 1971), this study introduces the concept of agenda erosion, describing the phenomenon by which powerful actors, including host authorities and western governmental and intergovernmental donors, exert influence to undermine agenda building activities by NGOs in the context of humanitarian crises. Methods of agenda erosion might include demanding sign-off of media content, the control of physical access to crisis zones for communications staff, and the politicisation of humanitarian data. Unlike the traditional view of NGOs being producers of information subsidies (Gandy 1982), this concept recognises that, as news producers, NGOs also accept information subsidies, including humanitarian data, from other actors. These subsidies are used by NGOs to increase their own agenda building effectiveness but can also allow other, potentially conflicting, priorities to influence the media agenda too. NGOs are now widely regarded as important players in the production of international news (Cottle and Nolan, 2007; Cooper, 2011; Powers 2018) and these findings suggest agenda erosion is in-part responsible for the continuing adherence of aid organisations to established patterns of news construction (Cottle & Nolan 2007; Fenton 2010; Waisbord 2011; Powers 2018). Only crises with hard-hitting data or emotive personal stories are likely to achieve mainstream media coverage but exposure to such sources is often closely guarded by the most powerful actors in certain crises. As a result, some crises continue to go underreported and NGOs risk being silenced or, worse, used as proxy mouthpieces by powers implicated in the humanitarian context to which they are attempting to respond." (Abstract) more

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Recommendations for strengthening communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response

London: CDAC Network (2024), 7 pp.

"This bulletin summarises the key findings and recommendations for strengthening collective efforts on communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response. The findings are drawn from a qualitative consultation with more than 30 representatives from the humanitarian community conduct ... more

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Communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response: A round-up of social media listening, media analytics and resources for practitioners

London: CDAC Network (2024), 6 pp.

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„Das größte lösbare Problem der Welt“: Die mediale Vernachlässigung des Globalen Hungers

Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures

Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring

Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
Top Insights

Breaking the Silence: The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2023

Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response. Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites

Advancing disaster risk communications

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Inspiring Practice

Mapping humanitarian tech: Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

Introducing Anticipatory Action: A Feasibility Study for Malteser International

Disaster Management: The Standards Perspective

AI and natural disaster analysis: Needs analysis during disaster using Artificial Intelligence by Citibeats, February 2018 - September 2021

Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid

Aid and the news agenda: Examining the forces shaping NGO-produced humanitarian media

Recommendations for strengthening communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response

Communication and community engagement in the Libya floods response: A round-up of social media listening, media analytics and resources for practitioners

Kenya Media Landscape Guide

The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2024: Marking Ten Years of the Humanitarian Data Exchange

OCHA and Meta: Partnering to give humanitarians open access to population data

Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024 Top Insights

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience Inspiring Practice

Care crisis report: Ten humanitarian crises that did not make the headlines in 2024
Top Insights

Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Inspiring Practice