Conflict, Security & Humanitarian Action

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Conflict, Security & Humanitarian Action

Conflicts, acute crises, epidemics, and natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people annually – and not enough is being done to address these humanitarian situations. The nature of crises is changing rapidly, and new challenges are emerging – we help humanitarian actors face these changing dynamics.

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About Conflict, Security & Humanitarian Action

Dalberg helps clients design effective strategies, establish new partnerships, identify innovative financing sources, and improve aid delivery for timely and effective humanitarian responses. We support a diverse range of humanitarian actors in becoming more flexible and in preparing to face the humanitarian scenarios of the future.

  • We build compelling strategies to help leading organizations achieve their goals. These include multi-year reviews of priorities based on relevant humanitarian trends, and wholesale organizational strategies matching an organization’s needs to on-the-ground realities.
  • We advise on operational change. Whatever role a client plays in humanitarian assistance, we make sure they are set up to achieve their goals. We evaluate and rethink staff structures to optimize interventions as well as to facilitate better coordination and partnerships, especially with new or non-traditional actors.
  • We create innovative financing options. We help clients create strategies for, and connect with, alternative funding sources such as private companies and individuals. We also contribute more broadly to the development of innovative financing mechanisms, such as public-private partnerships and development and humanitarian impact bonds.
  • We measure impact and manage performance. We develop practical ways to measure and track progress toward organizational objectives and goals, tailoring robust metrics tools from the development and private sectors to humanitarian assistance groups.

Our Ideas

Economy and Global Conflict: Where is Asia Headed?
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionSouth Asia

Economy and Global Conflict: Where is Asia Headed?

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Charting a Path for Equitable Vaccine Distribution
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionHealth & NutritionGlobal

Charting a Path for Equitable Vaccine Distribution

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Global South countries have enacted a variety of lockdown measures, different from those in the Global North and from each other
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Global South countries have enacted a variety of lockdown measures, different from those in the Global North and from each other

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Debt-for-Nature Swaps: a possible solution to a “green and just recovery” from Covid-19
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Debt-for-Nature Swaps: a possible solution to a “green and just recovery” from Covid-19

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Post COVID-19 economic recovery will happen — but will we make it equitable?
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionNorthern America

Post COVID-19 economic recovery will happen — but will we make it equitable?

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Applying a gender lens to post-Covid economic recoveries: a spotlight on women-led businesses in Africa
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGender EquityCentral & Western Africa

Applying a gender lens to post-Covid economic recoveries: a spotlight on women-led businesses in Africa

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Philanthropy in the era of Covid-19
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Philanthropy in the era of Covid-19

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The impact of Covid-19 on governance, peace and security in the Horn of Africa
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

The impact of Covid-19 on governance, peace and security in the Horn of Africa

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Covid-19: mitigating the risk of future pandemics by changing our relationship with the natural world
Climate & EnvironmentConflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Covid-19: mitigating the risk of future pandemics by changing our relationship with the natural world

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Insuring India’s poor through this pandemic—it’s time for Citizens to pick up the mantle
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionFinance & InvestmentSouth-East Asia

Insuring India’s poor through this pandemic—it’s time for Citizens to pick up the mantle

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Man no die, man no rotten: coronavirus against our Nigerianess
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionHealth & NutritionCentral & Western Africa

Man no die, man no rotten: coronavirus against our Nigerianess

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A ‘big bet’ on irrigation for Kenya’s smallholder farmers
Agriculture & Food SystemsConflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

A ‘big bet’ on irrigation for Kenya’s smallholder farmers

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This is what’s needed to keep medical commodity markets operating efficiently in a pandemic
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionHealth & NutritionCentral & Western Africa

This is what’s needed to keep medical commodity markets operating efficiently in a pandemic

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Strengthening the support system for Small and Growing Businesses in emerging economies
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Strengthening the support system for Small and Growing Businesses in emerging economies

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A shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) presents new opportunities for industry
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionHealth & NutritionGlobal

A shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) presents new opportunities for industry

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Leadership in the time of a pandemic
Central & Western Africa

Leadership in the time of a pandemic

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Financing ‘Missing Middle’ enterprises in the age of Covid-19: leveraging nontraditional finance pathways in emerging markets
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionFinance & InvestmentGlobal

Financing ‘Missing Middle’ enterprises in the age of Covid-19: leveraging nontraditional finance pathways in emerging markets

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Addressing women’s time poverty in India
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGender EquitySouth-East Asia

Addressing women’s time poverty in India

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Tracking the crisis response in developing nations
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

Tracking the crisis response in developing nations

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What Covid-19 means for Africa’s largest economy
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

What Covid-19 means for Africa’s largest economy

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Shaping an equitable future for care workers in the US
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionNorthern America

Shaping an equitable future for care workers in the US

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What does philanthropic leadership look like in a time of crisis? Heads of the world’s leading foundations share what needs to be done
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionSouth-East Asia

What does philanthropic leadership look like in a time of crisis? Heads of the world’s leading foundations share what needs to be done

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Galvanizing Kenya’s private sector to combat a global pandemic together
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

Galvanizing Kenya’s private sector to combat a global pandemic together

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How businesses can help refugees and why it’s a good investment
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionGlobal

How businesses can help refugees and why it’s a good investment

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Using data for the public good
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionDigital & DataEurope

Using data for the public good

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Webinar recording: What African leaders can do
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

Webinar recording: What African leaders can do

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Using cellphone data to map the spread of infection in Belgium
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionDigital & DataEurope

Using cellphone data to map the spread of infection in Belgium

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Getting critical medical supplies and protective gear to 54 African nations
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionCentral & Western Africa

Getting critical medical supplies and protective gear to 54 African nations

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Enhancing migrant resilience
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionStrategyGlobal

Enhancing migrant resilience

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Not the first virus, not the first crisis: how Emergency Operations Centers can help
Conflict, Security & Humanitarian ActionHealth & NutritionStrategyCentral & Western Africa

Not the first virus, not the first crisis: how Emergency Operations Centers can help

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