Humanitarian emergencies

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Guidance and regulation

1. Humanitarian Response Funding Guidelines for NGOs
   • Detailed guide
   • 12 October 2018
   • Department for International Development
2. International Humanitarian Law and the UK government
   • Guidance
   • 24 July 2018
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
3. Briefing paper: Violence against Women and Girls in Humanitarian Emergencies
   • Guidance
   • 17 January 2014
   • Department for International Development
4. Forum on protracted forced displacement: co-hosts summary
   • Guidance
   • 15 April 2016
   • Department for International Development
5. Joint NGO statement at international conference to defeat Ebola in Sierra Leone
   • Notice
   • 2 October 2014
   • Department for International Development

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News and communications

16 November 2018 — Speech

Humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

1. Africa Minister visits Mali as UK deepens efforts to stabilise the region
   • 14 November 2018
   • Department for International Development and Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release
2. Foreign Secretary: building blocks for Yemen solution are in view
   • 13 November 2018
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Press release
3. Universal Periodic Review 31: Jordan
   • 8 November 2018
   • World news story
4. Humanitarian Access, Refugee Return, and Security in Syria
   • 29 October 2018
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Speech

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Research and statistics

1. DFID response to ICAI recommendations on: the UK’s humanitarian support to Syria
   • 5 July 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Independent report
2. What works in addressing violence against women and girls? Lessons from the Typhoon Haiyan response
   • 4 June 2015
   • Department for International Development
   • Research
3. DFID management response ICAI UNRWA Report
   • 16 October 2013
   • Department for International Development
   • Independent report
4. DFID management response to the ICAI recommendations on DFID’s humanitarian emergency response in the Horn of Africa progress update March 2013
   • 2 April 2013
   • Department for International Development
   • Independent report
5. The Economics of Early Response and Disaster Resilience: Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia
   • 31 August 2012
   • Department for International Development
   • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

1. Performance Agreement: between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the International International Committee of the Red Cross
   • 3 July 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Policy paper
2. Performance Agreement: between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
   • 3 July 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Policy paper
3. Performance agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Red Cross
   • 3 July 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Policy paper
4. UK government’s Humanitarian Reform Policy
   • 13 October 2017
   • Department for International Development
   • Policy paper
5. Ministerial discussion on Syria, 18 September 2017: joint statement
   • 22 September 2017
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

1. Factsheet: The UK's humanitarian aid response to the Syria crisis
   • 26 October 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Transparency
2. UK National Committee on International Humanitarian Law: terms of reference
   • 24 July 2018
   • Foreign & Commonwealth Office
   • Corporate report
3. Department for International Development single departmental plan
   • 23 May 2018
   • Department for International Development
   • Corporate report
4. Iraq crisis: UK humanitarian response factsheet
   • 5 December 2017
   • Department for International Development
   • Transparency
5. UK government support for countries worst hit by Hurricane Sandy
   • 21 November 2012
   • Department for International Development
   • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department for International Development
2. Foreign & Commonwealth Office
3. Ministry of Defence
4. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
5. Department of Health & Social Care

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1. Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
2. Cabinet Office
3. Public Health England
4. Government Office for Science
5. Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative
6. HM Treasury
7. Home Office
8. Office of the Leader of the House of Lords