Hands reach for a package of food rations amid a large crowd of refugees

Humanitarian Coordination & Practice

InterAction supports the efforts of humanitarian agencies working together to provide a predictable, coordinated, well-resourced, and holistic response to conflicts and natural disasters.

InterAction also serves as a hub for our Members responding to humanitarian emergencies by coordinating information and engaging with the United Nations and the U.S. government to improve timeliness and accountability for effective responses.

Updates

Meaningful Refugee Participation at the Global Refugee Forum

The United Nations' policy and decision-making processes are predominantly confined to exclusive spaces, with much of the work concentrated at its offices in Geneva and New York. These elite forums are removed from realities on the ground and often exclude those with lived experience.

Marisa Leon Gomez Sonet

Rose Worden

Dec 18, 2024

Humanitarian Coordination & Practice

Barriers to Aid: The Growing Bureaucratic and Administrative Hurdles in Latin America

Surging bureaucratic and administrative impediments (BAI) across Latin America are an increasing challenge to humanitarian access and a barrier to aid delivery. So-called “NGO laws”…

Daniella Campos

Dec 16, 2024

Crises & Countries in Conflict

Supporting Community-Based Protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis and left more than seven million people…

Caroline Zullo

Dec 11, 2024

Humanitarian Coordination & Practice

Voices, Silences, and the Weight We Carry

This year, InterAction’s Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Working Group blog series sought to highlight and amplify the voices of women and girls leading the charge against GBV in humanitarian crises around the globe.

Dina Hanania

Dec 10, 2024

Humanitarian Coordination & Practice

Dignity in the Heat: Addressing Health and Shelter Needs in Humanitarian Crises

Two major climate trends are reshaping the humanitarian landscape: the increasing frequency of acute, high-cost disasters and the rise of slow-onset crises…

Evan Anthony

Dec 9, 2024

Humanitarian Coordination & Practice

Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Need for Protection and Empowerment in Guatemala

Twenty-five percent of people giving birth in Guatemala, which has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in…

Dulce Escalante

Faiza Husainy

Dec 6, 2024

Crises & Countries in Conflict

Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

On November 25, 1960, agents of the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo dictatorship brutally murdered Patria, Minerva, and Teresa Mirabel, three activists fighting the cruelty and violence…

Siena Greenwell

Sylvie Mazambi

Dec 5, 2024

Crises & Countries in Conflict

We Keep Us Safe: Women Protecting Women in South Sudan

In 2011, South Sudan emerged from a violent civil war as an independent nation from Sudan. However, in 2013, escalating political and ethnic tensions ignited…