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Remittances during crises: implication for humanitarian response (330kb)

Remittances, or migrants sending money home, are an important part of many people's lives around the world. Globally, remittances are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This means that they are substantially larger than flows of foreign direct investment and aid.

This latest Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) report explores how affected people use remittance income to survive and recover from crises. It also looks at the effect that crises can have on remittance flows and the way that humanitarian responses consider the role of remittances.

The study concludes that, while remittances should not be seen as a solution or substitute for humanitarian action, there is clear potential for humanitarian actors to do more to explore the connections between emergency relief and people's own efforts to support friends and family in times of crisis. It also shows that  flexible assistance programming is needed, which enables people to combine their own resources and capacities with the resources provided through relief.

 

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