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{"title":"An analytical framework for examining the ethical dimensions of innovative humanitarian finance.","authors":"Laila Zulkaphil","doi":"10.1186/s41018-026-00195-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-026-00195-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the increasing exploration of innovative financing mechanisms to address the widening humanitarian funding gap, scholarly engagement with innovative humanitarian finance remains remarkably scarce. Many of these mechanisms adopt blended finance models, in which public or philanthropic funds are used to de-risk and attract private investment into fragile contexts. While such arrangements raise fundamental questions about the compatibility of profit motives with humanitarian values, their ethical implications are not well understood. This article addresses these gaps by introducing a novel analytical framework for examining the ethics of using market-based financing mechanisms for humanitarian action. The framework integrates three interdisciplinary ethical perspectives - market ethics, humanitarian principles, and normative moral philosophy - to form a layered and comprehensive approach. The article demonstrates the application of the framework through the case of impact bonds - an outcome-based financing mechanism in which investors provide upfront capital and are repaid with interest if projects achieve their intended outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"11 1","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13098990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining the applicability of hard data protection law on demographically identifiable information (DII): the case of humanitarian UAV/drone images in Malawi.","authors":"Rogers Alunge Alunge Nnangsope","doi":"10.1186/s41018-025-00174-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s41018-025-00174-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research carried out in Northern Malawi concluded that protecting and ensuring responsible use of drone-collected data in disaster-risk areas should be left entirely to the humanitarian organisations collecting these data, with little participation expected of the affected residents, mostly because they will always be coerced into giving up their data in exchange for assistance. One way to guarantee this protection is by applying national rules of data protection law to these drone data processes in the country. However, aerial drone data (e.g. high-resolution images) of a community would usually be demographically identifiable information (DII) which, unlike personally identifiable information (PII), is not substantively regulated by contemporary hard data protection law, i.e. the 2023 Malawi Data Protection Bill (MDPB) which leaves drone DII without any binding regulatory framework and hence less legal protection. Faced with this regulatory obstacle, this paper sets out to propose and evaluate methods through which the data processing principles and rights provided by the MDPB could nevertheless be applied to regulate drone DII collected and processed by humanitarian organisations in Malawi. First, it sought to establish the feasibility of their application among the humanitarian community: to this end, 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with humanitarian officials operating in the country, with results showing that these officials largely believed the MDPB principles and rights could effectively govern their drone data processes. The paper then proposes some regulatory modifications or 'nudges' which, if adopted by Malawian regulators, could probe humanitarian organisations towards applying the MDPB principles and rights to their drone DII processes, and examines how these principles and rights could be reflected in concrete, drone-related internal policies adopted by these organisations.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s41018-025-00174-z.</p>","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"10 1","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12279557/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanitarian observatories: insights for reforming humanitarianism from below.","authors":"Dorothea Hilhorst, Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Juan Ricardo Aparicio, Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik","doi":"10.1186/s41018-025-00172-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s41018-025-00172-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the last few decades, there has been a marked turn to \"humanitarianism from below\" in thinking about and organizing humanitarian action, which is among other expressed in the localization agenda of humanitarian action. In the last years, there have been many initiatives to strengthen national actors as well as initiatives that are directed to organization, advocacy, and collective action. This paper theoretically positions the role of national and local service providers in the humanitarian arena and politics of knowledge production and then presents a specific initiative of humanitarian observatories in three countries. The paper brings out a number of issues relevant for other initiatives aiming to strengthen the role of national and local actors, namely that humanitarians are not the only relevant actors to deal with humanitarian crises, that context matters, the importance of agenda-setting, and the importance of sideways interaction between observatories in different crisis-affected regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"10 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12133920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144235400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender and intimate partner violence considerations for cash transfer programming in South Sudan.","authors":"Allison Jeffery, Angelina G Akol, Kate Mieth, Morjan Robert Kenyi Duku, Vanessa Saraiva, Shannon Doocy, Gerbrand Alkema, Kevin Savage, W Courtland Robinson","doi":"10.1186/s41018-025-00181-0","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s41018-025-00181-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the use of cash and voucher assistance increases in South Sudan, there is a continued need to understand its potential interactions with gender norms and intimate partner violence. This paper is part of a larger, mixed methods study whose aims were to measure the association between cash transfer program participation and intimate partner violence (IPV) in Gogrial West, South Sudan; to understand how receipt of cash transfers and the way they are delivered may affect gender relations, power dynamics, and IPV in receiving households, and to identify ways to improve design of cash transfers to mitigate IPV risk and enhance positive effects on gender relations. This paper presents results from qualitative research to investigate gender norms and intimate partner violence in the context of cash programming in Gogrial West, South Sudan. Forty-one key informant interviews, 12 focus group discussions, and 30 individual in-depth interviews were conducted over two rounds of data collection between October 2019 and December 2021. The most common gender norms and IPV behaviors included those relating to livelihoods and unmet needs, household decision-making and household stress, family structures, marital disagreements, and perceived acceptability of IPV. Qualitative analysis suggests that the cash transfer program did not particularly disrupt gender dynamics within households, a situation that would heighten risks of intimate partner violence. More participants reported that the cash program decreased intimate partner violence by reducing household stress, but overall evidence on the direct association of this cash program with IPV is limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"10 1","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12672747/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145678764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender dynamics in humanitarian leadership: navigating COVID-19 and beyond","authors":"Annika Bode","doi":"10.1186/s41018-024-00150-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-024-00150-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"76 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141643099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Refugee voices vs. humanitarian choices: how much can refugee-led organizations redefine power and agency in post-2019 Lebanon?","authors":"J. L. Diab, Simona Jasiukaitis, Yara El-Zakka","doi":"10.1186/s41018-024-00151-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-024-00151-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"117 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141665472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EDUBox: finding suitable locations for offgrid mobile classrooms in the context of underserved communities","authors":"A. Martinetti, Nina Trauernicht, Margot Dietrich, Peter Chemweno","doi":"10.1186/s41018-024-00149-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-024-00149-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"33 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140656310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disaggregation of humanitarian data by disability: a realist evaluation of the use of the Washington Group Questions to support more inclusive practices","authors":"Claire F O'Reilly, C. Jagoe","doi":"10.1186/s41018-023-00147-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-023-00147-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"18 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140450877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on violations of the right to integrity of the person","authors":"Valentina Carraro","doi":"10.1186/s41018-023-00148-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-023-00148-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"45 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139797034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on violations of the right to integrity of the person","authors":"Valentina Carraro","doi":"10.1186/s41018-023-00148-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s41018-023-00148-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of International Humanitarian Action","volume":"70 3-4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139856804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}