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Table 1 Sample of humanitarian organizations

From: Beyond gender mainstreaming: transforming humanitarian action, organizations and culture

Organization type (key informant ID)a

Organization

United Nations (UN1, 2…14)

• Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)b

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)b

• United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

• World Food Program (WFP)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

Bilateral donor agencies (BDA1, 2…9)

• Global Affairs Canada

• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

• US Agency for International Development (USAID)

International Finance Institutions (IFI1, 2…4)

• African Development Bank (AfDB)

• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

• Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

International non-governmental organizations (NGO1, 2…9)

• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)b

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)b

• International Rescue Committee (IRC)b

• CARE

Other Independent Experts (OE1, 2…8)

  1. aTo ensure confidentiality, key informants were assigned a serial number within each category of type of organization. In the text below, we use the assigned serial number to cite the key informants
  2. bOrganizations that only provide humanitarian assistance