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Opinion
· 2026-10-22
Who Gets to Know? The Grand Bargain's Missing Commitment
This piece examines the production and control of knowledge in the humanitarian system as a less discussed dimension. The Grand Bargain's commitments on transparency and on joint needs assessment asked organisations to publish and share their data; none gave local actors or affected people authority over the evidence itself: who produces it, who holds it and who can contest it. That authority is the missing commitment of the title.
Opinion
· 2026-09-10
Deleting self-reliance: what the SOHS 2026 finding looks like in a donor's own funding texts
Aid recipients asked for the chance to need aid less, and SOHS 2026 records that funding cuts went the other way. DG ECHO's Palestine decisions show how: the words nexus, resilience and self-reliance disappear from the text first, and the budgets follow.
Palestine