Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the many individuals and organisations involved at all stages of this report. First, we would like to thank ODI for commissioning and funding the report, and to those in the Humanitarian Policy Group who contributed to the process, in particular Sorcha O’Callaghan and Sara Pantuliano for their input throughout, and Matthew Foley for his excellent editing work in the final stages. Second, we wish to thank the numerous humanitarian actors who gave their time both to be interviewed and to comment on earlier drafts of the report, including representatives from UN OCHA