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With growing foreign military presence and increasing

frequency and severity of natural disasters, military

actors are involved more and more often in

humanitarian assistance. Discussions on this

involvement focus largely on considerations around the

protection of humanitarian space. The financial

contribution is little recorded and articulated.

Countries affected by conflict are likely to receive more

humanitarian aid, for longer and more humanitarian aid

relative to other types of aid. Aid is often channelled

around fragile state structures through an array of

funding mechanisms.

Large volumes of international funds are also

channelled into conflict affected states through multi-

lateral peacekeeping operations. These funds in some

cases dwarf other international contributions.

We are developing data and analysis to paint a fuller

picture of the total flows of international funds into

conflict-affected states and to determine patterns in the

volumes and mechanisms through which that funding

flows.

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We are compiling and analysing data on

ecurity-related and military resource flows torisis-affected states to situate humanitarian

ssistance within the bigger picture of

ternational action in and on crisis-affected

ates:

documenting types of security-related aid

including definitions and conduits for

funding

producing fact sheets on pooled

peacebuilding funds and tracking their

disbursements

producing comparative analysis of a

spectrum of aid and military financial flows

of resources into conflict-affected states

conducting detailed case studies of aid in

Afghanistan and Somalia

measuring financial volumes of military

humanitarian assistance.

We believe collecting and tracking this data

ill contribute to a better understanding of

ends, emergent ideas, mechanisms, actors

nd changing relationships that affect

umanitarian assistance

F A S T F A C T S

In 2008 the leading recipients of

humanitarian assistance were: Sudan,US$1.3 billion; Afghanistan,

US$823 million; Ethiopia, US$807million;

Palestine/OPT, US$750 million; and

Somalia, US$540 million.

77% of countries classified as long-term

recipients of humanitarian aid are

currently affected by conflict, have a

recent history of conflict or neighbour a

country in conflict.

Security-related official development

assistance (ODA) doubled from

US$1,860 million in 2006 to

US$3,623 million in 2008.

The budget for UN-mandated global

peacekeeping operations from June

2009 to July 2010 is US$7.7 billion.

The US budget for military operations in

Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq in 2010 is

US$162.2 billion.

The UN consolidated appeal for 2010

identifies US$9.1 billion in humanitarian

need.

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Feinstein International Centre and the

Humanitarian Futures Programme have

identified emergent dynamics that are likely

to shape future humanitarian action. They

include:

- the fact that the sheer scope of human

vulnerability will grow ever greater

- that humanitarian and development

activities will become increasingly

conflated

- that the shift from a unipolar to a

multipolar system (i.e. the increasingly

significant participation of non-DACdonors in humanitarian funding) will

have an impact on the level and

influence of traditional humanitarian

funding

- that anything currently resembling

humanitarian space will become even

further constricted

- that there will be an increased

involvement of military actors in

humanitarian action, particularly in

instances of natural disaster

- that continuing developments in

technology will have significant impacts

on humanitarian action.

Lydia Poole, Policy Advisor | Keward Court, Jocelyn Drive, Wells, BA5 1DB, UKTel +44 (0) 1749 671343 | Fax: +44 (0) 1749 676721 | lydia.poole@devinit.org

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convergence of donor government interest

n growing, reforming and stabilising states in

e period between the end of a conflict ande beginnings of development has seen the

mergence of a set of pooled funds with an

mphasis on peace building and stabilisation.

Multilateral pooled funds

- Peacebuilding Fund (UN)

- State and Peacebuilding Fund (World

Bank)

- Fragile States Facility (African

Development Bank)

Internal pooled funds

- Stabilisation Fund (Netherlands)

- Conflict Pool (United Kingdom)

- Global Peace and Security Fund

(Canada)

- Instrument for Stability (European

Commission)

-Peace Facility for Africa (EuropeanCommission)

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Tracking global trends in defence

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http://www.janes.com/info/jdb/

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Lfgren, J., Randall, T., (2008), The

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