Humanitarian NGOs Domain
The Humanitarian NGOs domain creates a bridge between scholarly research and the needs of NGO leaders working across national boundaries to reduce long-term poverty and provide humanitarian aid in developing countries. A defining characteristic of these NGOs is their global reach, with a certain segment comprised of international federations or alliances, such as Oxfam International and Save the Children. Although the leaders engaged with the Hauser Center through this domain are based in the US, scholarly attention extends beyond the US context.
J. Bryan
Hehir, Parker Montgomery Professor of the Practice of
Religion and Public Life, Harvard Kennedy School, and Peter
Bell, Chair NGO Forum and Hauser Center Senior Research
Fellow present at the panel "Are NGOs Changing World
Politics?”
Current initiatives in
this domain include:
International
Development and Humanitarian NGO
Blog, which
tracks the latest developments relevant to reducing
global poverty and comments on the implications for the
NGO community.
NGO Leaders Seminar
Series
Study Group
on NGOs and Development
Policy Panel: “The Obama Administration’s Global
Development Policy: Enhancing Coherence and
Effectiveness”
“Leadership and Effectiveness of
Transnational NGOs: Research Perspectives on
Development, Human Rights and Environmental
NGOs”
Critical
Issues in Humanitarian Response Discussion
Group
The NGO Leaders
Forum, a retreat
series for the chief executives of the major U.S.-based
international development and relief NGOs that pairs
them with policy leaders and scholarly experts, who
provide fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on
pressing issues.