Policy paper

Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises

An overview of DFID’s approach to deliver a prioritised, relevant and timely contribution to more effective humanitarian action.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 25 November 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Promoting innovation and evidence-based approaches to building resilience and responding to humanitarian crises: an overview of DFID’s approach

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Details

This paper provides an overview of DFID’s work to build the evidence base and catalyze innovation in the humanitarian sector. In addition to a summary and introduction, it comprises three parts. Section 2 sets out the aims and objectives of the strategy, locating it within the wider context of DFID’s humanitarian policy. Section 3 identifies the four big problems around which we are concentrating our efforts. Section 4 describes how DFID’s interest in this area is delivered.

Published 25 November 2014