Remittances during crises: implications for humanitarian response

In disasters, they can play a particularly important part in how people survive and recover because they represent a relatively stable form of income, usually increase in times of crisis and directly contribute to household income. However, humanitarian actors often fail to consider remittances in assessments and response design – a neglect that reflects a broader tendency to undervalue the capacities of crisis-affected populations.

This two year project, led by the Humanitarian Policy Group at ODI, looked at the role that remittances play in crises.