Distribution by Region

Distribution by Organisation Type, Document Type, Region and Year

Affected population and its variants occur mostly in documents published in Europe, followed by North America, Asia and Africa. Overall, the top five contributors in terms of occurrences are NGO, IGO, RC, C/B and Project organisations.

NGO documents provide most occurrences, primarily from activity reports published in Europe and Africa. Occurrences from IGO are the second most important in number, irrespective of document type. Most IGO general documents were published in North America, whereas activity reports from the same organisation type were published in Europe.

In third place, documents from RC are mostly activity reports and general documents, both kinds published in Europe for the most part. Project provides a substantial portion of occurrences with two isolated but large contributions from general documents in 2011 and 2018. Finally, C/B generates a considerable number of occurrences from European general documents, albeit rather minor compared to top contributors.

The tsunami event has allowed us a glimpse of what it looks like when the givers and recipients of aid (Western publics and affected populations) are centre-stage and call the shots – putting pressure on the actors in the middle (governments and aid agencies) to do the job right.

The humanitarian system is thus defined as the network of interconnected institutional and operational entities through which humanitarian assistance is provided when local and national resources are insufficient to meet the needs of the affected population.

Some of the key challenges result from unequal access to technologies among both affected populations and humanitarians.

Interventions therefore need to support and complement the efforts of affected populations who are usually the first and main responders.

Actors involved in the response are consulted (the affected population, national government, local authorities, the military, local NGOs, international donors, the UN, the Red Cross/Red Crescent and INGOs), fostering increased learning and accountability across the humanitarian system.

Humanitarian aid effectiveness and the impact of humanitarian assistance is a key question for all of the stakeholders involved in humanitarian assistance, including partner governments, donors, implementing agencies and the affected population.

Even where such abuses are not intended to uproot those targeted, they have led to massive displacement, with the affected populations seeking refuge in camps or with host communities in safer parts of the country.

... however, the community interaction strategy which was designed for this specific project ensured timely provision of lifesaving nutrition services for acutely malnourished children (boys and girls), pregnant and lactating women in the affected population (off-camp IDPs and hosting communities) ...

... relevant protection activities do not take place in a legal void; affected populations are rights-holders and not merely beneficiaries of charitable action; and national authorities have the primary responsibility as duty-bearers to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons under their jurisdiction.

'All-of-society' engagement through networks [is] the process to strengthen resilience starts at the local level with an understanding of risks, needs and priorities from the perspective of the primary risk-bearers i.e., affected populations.

NGO, IGO and RC coincide in that they include mentions to:

1. specific organisations (ENN, gFSC and NRCS)

2. safety (harsh, threaten, safe); and

3. nature of situations: (flash, unpredictable, parallel)

NGO and IGO present collocates that refer to approaches to delivering assistance (holistic, people-centric, timely) as well as references to locations (off-camp, proximity, Amran, Rachine, Egypt). RC and IGO contain collocates associated with communication such as negotiation, disseminate and communicate. In addition to the aforementioned categories, Project also features distinct collocates suggesting a closer fieldwork contact with affected populations, as evidenced by appraise, implication and exposure. Similarly, C/B generates a distinct set of unique collocates that exemplify key concerns in relation to the humanitarian system, e.g. neutrality as well as its characteristic business focus on action-outcome, e.g. deal, act, contact and result.

For a visualisation with all collocates and greater filtering control, please click here.

Shared collocations allow to discover matching elements with organisations talk about affected populations. These constitutes intersections between subcorpora.

Top collocates shared by 2 organisation types are AAP (accountability to affected populations) (IGO+C/B), flood (NGO+RC), involvement (Project+NGO), drought (NGO+IGO), ability (RC+Project) and IDP (internally displaced person) (NGO+IGO)

Top collocates shared by 3 organisation types include dignity (IGO+NGO+Project), assist, vulnerable (IGO+RC+NGO), participation (IGO+NGO+Project), emergency and crisis (IGO+RC+NGO).

Top collates shared by 4 organisation types include actor (C/B+IGO+NGO+Project), reach (C/B+IGO+NGO+RC), ensure (C/B+IGO+NGO+Project), key, response and provide (C/B+IGO+NGO+RC).

Finally, all organisation types selected for analysis coincide with the following collocates in order of relevance: accountability, need, access, assistance, humanitarian and local.

With a total of 146 occurrences, accountability to affected populations is the most frequent and relevant compound expression. Even thought contexts were obtained from documents published in every year, 2011 saw a nine-fold explosion of occurrences compared to the previous year. The period between 2011 and 2019 accounts for nearly 90% of all occurrences. Being the top collocation for 2007, 2008 and 2009, accountability to affected populations was a concern that gained considerable attention after 2011. Numerous occurrences of its acronym —AAP— indicate that the concept has solidified quite recently.

By and large, when organisations refer to AAP, they do so to point out that:

(a) it is something that should be improved, increased or strengthened;

(b) it is topical;

(c) they work towards it;

(d) they are committed to it;

(e) they take general or specific measures to increase it;

(f) there is no common understanding of what it means; and

(g) they research it and/or have specific research questions.

To better understand the evolution of AAP over time, all contexts were classified into 8 statement categories based on what organisations say about it:

(i) General measure

(ii) Specific measure

(iii) Current affair

(iv) Research

(v) Ethical basis

(vi) Humanitarian concept

(vii) Explicit definition

(viii) Other

Contexts classified as Other mostly include statements merely claiming that a given organisation works towards AAP, as well as other marginal cases.

Below is an histogram of the evolution of AAP as a concept. The statement classification detailed above allows to represent how AAP develops from vague mentions to more specific and defined mentions. Please hover over each bar section to reveal more details about each mention. Other filters are also available to look at distributions by region, document type and organisation type.

Aid agencies operating in Yemen report that their ability to access affected populations is constrained despite unprecedented levels of humanitarian funding.

Across many of the countries in which we work, Concern and our partners continue to experience extremely significant challenges as a result of conflict and displacement, including: restricted access to affected populations, disruption of programme activity and surges of pressure on our programmes' capacity.

The impartiality of aid risks being compromised if humanitarian actors have access to only part of an affected population, or can only have limited or inconsistent interaction with the affected population.

The principal challenge to the response will be the limited and unpredictable access to affected populations in the North West Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where fighting is ongoing.

The participation and consultation of affected populations during the implementation of humanitarian programmes is of primary importance, but it is also a very sensitive issue.

The full participation of the affected population and coordination with national and local authorities is essential to achieve this across all sectors.

The involvement of national actors and affected populations in the coordination and provision of humanitarian response is necessary to ensure that humanitarian actors can respond adequately to real needs and protect the dignity of the affected population.

The visualisation on the left shows the most frequent nouns that collocate with affected. It is no surprise that these are collective terms (e.g. community, family, household, etc.) and geographical terms (e.g. area, country, district, etc), as well as individual terms (e.g. resident, person, farmer, etc.).

People can be grouped based on numerous criteria. For this reason, population may have countless synonyms as it means "a particular group or type of people living in a place". (Oxford English Dictionary, 2019). Metonymically, groups of people may also be referred to by the place they inhabit. This is why region, district and state appear too in the visualisation.

Depending on the context, all these expressions have the potential to be synonymous with affected population.

This is provided by working directly with the affected communities who are not receiving aid or not receiving sufficient aid from the Burma Government or INGOs.

The program aims to help save lives, livelihoods and assets, and alleviate the suffering of affected people .

Through this project, Sungi was able to provide food assistance to 6,000 households benefiting about 46200 affected populations whereas five medical camps were arranged in the affected union councils providing affectees access to the basic health facilities at their nearest point; six links roads were cleared and 170 houses were rehabilitated which lay in their proximity communities.

Objectives • Assess, monitor and analyse the humanitarian risks and conditions of affected populations , including drought victims , IDPs, returnees and the urban destitute.

Only in this way - and my thanks go in particular to the work of NGOs such as 'Geneva Call' - will we be able to improve the situations of affected populations and prevent new victims.

The strategy also aims to anticipate and prevent cholera transmission to unaffected populations at immediate risk, which are identified via the analysis of previous outbreak patterns and cross-border collaboration.

Host populations are often impacted by directly affected populations, for example by sharing communal services such as schools, or acting as host families.

The program aims to help save lives, livelihoods and assets, and alleviate the suffering of affected people.

Some of the key challenges result from unequal access to technologies among both affected populations and humanitarians.

This challenge will require a greater level of partnership and cooperation between humanitarian and development agencies, and between these actors and affected populations, national and local governments, new private sector responders and the military.