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Promoting effective humanitarian service delivery through strategic partnerships

Humanitarian crises are growing in complexity and impact. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs nearly 300 million people globally needed humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024. In a world plagued by natural disasters, violent conflict, and public health emergencies, humanitarian service delivery is critical.

Ayodele Jegede

29 Apr 2025

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Aid cuts and healthcare devastation in South Sudan

Among the countries worst affected from the sudden and wide-ranging US aid cuts is South Sudan. South Sudan relies on international assistance to provide basic services to its people. Cuts will devastate its healthcare system, including its ability to prepare for and respond to infectious disease outbreaks.

Central and East Africa Hub

Leben Moro

6 Apr 2025

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Hiding in plain sight: IDP’s protection strategies after closing Juba’s protection of civilian sites

This article examines how former Protection of Civilian site (PoCs) residents are staying safe and protecting themselves after the United Nations Mission in South Sudan's (UNMISS) handing over of the PoCs to the Revitalised-Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU).

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2023

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Sing safety: understanding South Sudanese protection strategies through song

This article argues that paying attention to music can help humanitarians understand self-protection strategies, especially as music can create space for discussion even about emotive or political topics that cannot be verbalised in other ways.

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

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Safety among displaced South Sudanese in Khartoum: the role of Christian faith communities

Christianity occupies an integral part of South Sudanese journeys through wars and displacement. This article explores the role of Christian faith communities in providing protection during South Sudanese displacement in Khartoum.

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

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Seeking safety: Identifying protection gaps for artists in South Sudan

Protection of artists during times of conflict has no specific framework in international humanitarian law. However, cultural sites, artefacts and institutions are protected. This article contributes empirical evidence from South Sudan to reveal how artists experience the protection gap and…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

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Negotiating faith in exile: learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda

Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. This paper explores how faith has been entangled within the dynamics of two spatially connected crises: Ugandans fleeing post-Amin reprisals in the mid-1980s, and South Sudanese fleeing…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

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Protection and containment: surviving COVID-19 in Palabek refugee settlement, Northern Uganda

Humanitarian assistance is framed around ‘protection’. Deciding whom to protect and against what is not straightforward, particularly during a pandemic. This article critically explores containment and protection by focusing on refugee self-protection in Uganda.

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

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Community self-protection, public authority and the safety of strangers in Bor and Ler, South Sudan

Protection is not simply something done or delivered to people by states, humanitarian organisations and armed peacekeepers. We use interview data from communities in Bor and Ler, South Sudan, long affected by conflict, to show how attention to the relationship…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

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Humanitarian protection activities and the safety of strangers in the DRC, Syria and South Sudan

Many contemporary humanitarian organisations derive their legitimacy from their claims to protect civilians. Yet, what these organisations do in its name includes a diverse and contested range of activities that are often far from what global publics and affected populations…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2024

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The safety of strangers: the realities and politics of protecting civilians in times of war

Recent wars have brutally shown that civilians are not safe. This is despite high-level global commitments and multi-billion-dollar humanitarian spending to keep civilian strangers protected. The high civilian death tolls in recent armed conflicts are prompting new questions about how…

Central and East Africa Hub

Global Policy

2025

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Female genital mutilation among Sudanese displaced populations in Egypt

A Key Considerations brief considering the drivers and dynamics of FGM practices in the context of forced displacement to inform culturally sensitive strategies for FGM prevention and response.

SSHAP

2024