Humanitarian emergencies

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Guidance and regulation

• Humanitarian Response Funding: guidelines for NGOs
  • Detailed guide
  • 1 June 2021
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• International humanitarian law implementation report: toolkit
  • Guidance
  • 2 August 2022
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Briefing paper: Violence against Women and Girls in Humanitarian Emergencies
  • Guidance
  • 17 January 2014
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
• International humanitarian law and the UK government
  • Guidance
  • 29 November 2019
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Art Competition for the Global Goals Report (or UK’s Voluntary National Review)
  • Guidance
  • 17 April 2019
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development

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News and communications

• UK announces urgent support to Somali people facing famine
  • 2 December 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• UK announces humanitarian assistance for 150,000 women and children suffering drought and conflict in Ethiopia
  • 19 October 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• British Embassy donates PPE to Honduras
  • 17 October 2022
  • World news story
• Additional £10 million of UK aid for flood relief efforts in Pakistan
  • 13 October 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Press release
• UK statement for the 73rd session of the UNHCR Executive Committee
  • 11 October 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Speech

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Research and statistics

• DFID response to ICAI recommendations on: The UK’s Approach to Funding the UN Humanitarian System
  • 12 February 2019
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Independent report
• DFID response to ICAI recommendations on: the UK’s humanitarian support to Syria
  • 5 July 2018
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Independent report
• What works in addressing violence against women and girls? Lessons from the Typhoon Haiyan response
  • 4 June 2015
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Research
• DFID management response ICAI UNRWA Report
  • 16 October 2013
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Independent report
• 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
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Independent report

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Policy papers and consultations

• UK humanitarian framework
  • 10 November 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• UK-Sudan Strategic Dialogue, October 2021: communique
  • 20 October 2021
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Policy paper
• World Bank Development Committee 2021: UK Governor’s statement
  • 19 October 2021
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and HM Treasury
  • Policy paper
• Performance Agreement: between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the International International Committee of the Red Cross
  • 3 July 2018
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Policy paper
• 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
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• UK government's humanitarian response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: facts and figures
  • 23 August 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Factsheet: The UK's humanitarian aid response to the Syria crisis
  • 20 July 2022
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Transparency
• Annual review for the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of irregular migration and displaced persons in Africa
  • 29 May 2019
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Corporate report
• UK National Committee on International Humanitarian Law: terms of reference
  • 24 July 2018
  • Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
  • Corporate report
• Iraq crisis: UK humanitarian response factsheet
  • 5 December 2017
  • Closed organisation: Department for International Development
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
• Department of Health & Social Care
• Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland

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• Cabinet Office
• Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
• Government Actuary's Department
• Government Office for Science
• HM Treasury
• Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative
• Home Office
• Office of the Leader of the House of Lords

• The Charity Commission
• UK Space Agency