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Out of Reach: How Insecurity Prevents Humanitarian Aid from Accessing the Neediest Cover

Out of Reach: How Insecurity Prevents Humanitarian Aid from Accessing the Neediest

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|Mar 2017

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Attacks on aid workers in case-study countries relative to total, 2011–2014. Source: Humanitarian Outcomes 2015b, Aid Worker Security Database, aidworkersecurity.org.

Table 1

Summary statistics.

VariableMeanStd. Dev.Min.Max.N
Organizations14.3817.411110367
Projects49.5061.691371235
Personnel469.761323.54110637193
Population In Need Estimates (Per 100,000)1.852.37025.75518
AWSD Incidents1.342.11015518
GTD Incidents23.3935.440336371
Figure 2

Comparison of emergency responses by insecurity and presence, 2011–2014. Sources: Aid Worker Security Database (aidworkersecurity.org) and FTS (fts.unocha.org).

Figure 3

Most present humanitarian actors.

Figure 4

Humanitarian coverage and aid worker attack rates.

Figure 5

Funding by sector as a percentage of total contributions, 2011–2014.

Figure 6

Perceptions of biggest obstacles to aid in the four countries.

Figure 7

Prevailing operational models in the four contexts.

Figure 8

Declining district presence of humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan.

Map 1

Insecurity and humanitarian coverage in Afghanistan, 2014.

Map 2

South Central Somalia NGO (international and national) presence per region, 2014.

Map 3

Insecurity and humanitarian coverage in South Central Somalia, 2014.

Map 4

Insecurity and humanitarian coverage in South Sudan, 2014.

Figure 9

Aid activities reported by sector in Syria, 2014.

Map 5

Insecurity and humanitarian coverage in Syria, 2014.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.506 | Journal eISSN: 2165-2627
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 1
Submitted on: Oct 25, 2016
Accepted on: Dec 22, 2016
Published on: Mar 3, 2017
Published by: Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2017 Abby Stoddard, Shoaib Jillani, John Caccavale, Peyton Cooke, David Guillemois, Vassily Klimentov, published by Department of Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.