2005 created a new environment for global humanitarian assistance. Are the emerging patterns and trends unique? Or do they signal a new architecture with a more diverse set of actors and different ways of working?

GHA 2006 attempts to answer these basic questions and to look at humanitarian assistance – present, past and future – in the context of the major factors influencing the international humanitarian environment and donor community.

Chapter 1. Global Humanitarian Assistance 2006: Executive summary. Humanitarian assistance at a glance.

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Chapter 2. Counting humanitarian assistance. What is humanitarian assistance? How much is there? Where is it being spent? Who is spending it? What is it being spent on? Does it reach everyone in need?

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Chapter 3. What channels does humanitarian assistance flow through? The route between bilateral donors and people affected by crisis: main trends in income and spending channels.

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Chapter 4. Key features of 2005. A look at the key events and developments of 2005 and how these are shaping the humanitarian environment.

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Chapter 5. What are the likely future trends of humanitarian assistance? Will there be more demand? Will more aid mean more assistance? Will reform result in more efficient resourcing?

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Chapter 6. Good Humanitarian Donorship Indicators Report, 2006. The performance of the DAC donors against the collective performance indicators agreed under the GHD initiative for 2004 and 2005.

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Chapter 7. Humanitarian donor profiles. A look at the donorship profiles of each of the 23 DAC donors plus the Czech Republic, Poland, Republic of Korea and South Africa.

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Chapter 8. Basic concepts, definitions and methodology.

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