Reading Pack: Humanitarian Action - 2nd Edition

The purpose of humanitarian action is to support people affected by armed conflicts and disasters by helping them to save their lives, alleviate their suffering, maintain their dignity, assist their recovery and increase their resilience.

This reading pack from the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy programme (K4DD) provides thought-provoking introductions by international experts and highlight the emerging issues and debates within them. It aims to help inform policies that are more resilient to the future.

This publication is a new updated edition of the ‘Reading Pack: Humanitarian Action’ authored by Hugo Slim. This edition provides some light-touch updating of some of the reading list documents and links in the November 2020 edition as part of the K4DD programme, funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).