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10 years of Humanitarian Alternatives: A common good for thinking about action

Ten years ago, the inaugural issue of Humanitarian Alternatives was published! The review was created in 2016 out of a collective desire among French-speaking NGOs and foundations to create a forum for discussion between humanitarian practitioners and the academic world. It wasn’t a foregone...

Editorial

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Social action and humanitarian action: a much-needed broadening of the scope of solidarity

Frédéric Meunier - Vincent Léger

Focus

Social urgency, local resilience and resistance: when humanitarian players get involved in France

Johanna Baché - Véronique de Geoffroy

Focus

Bridging humanitarian and social action through mental health and psychosocial support: towards ethical and context-sensitive responses in a polarised world

Lourdes Carrasco Colom - Maria Bray

Focus

pays intervention action contre la faim domestic action against hunger

How operating in a domestic context fast-tracks a humanitarian organisation’s existing concerns

Arthur Maurus - Hélène Quéau - Mathilde Fassolette

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mineurs non accompagnés msf unaccompanied minors

A humanitarian organisation in social care: insights from a Médecins Sans Frontières day centre for unaccompanied minors in France’s Île-de-France region

Véga Levaillant

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Aid in danger

Building tomorrow’s INGOs – towards a more collaborative sector

Published on 27 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: After the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the author, as bilateral donors slash budgets and autocrats weaponise localisation, INGOs face an existential moment. Collaboration, not competition, offers the only […]

Aid in danger

Aid interrupted: what Myanmar’s crisis reveals about humanitarian system’s fragility

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the author, forty years after their creation, refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border reveal their Achilles heel: a deadly dependence on external […]

Aid in danger

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the two authors, Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV success story masks a dangerous vulnerability. When PEPFAR funding vanished, community workers kept showing up unpaid […]

Aid in danger

A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

Published on 4 November 2025 As donor budgets shrink and crisis-hit populations face abandonment, IRC charts a data-driven path forward. Through evidence-based targeting, proven innovations, and local partnerships, the organisation demonstrates how strategic action can maximise impact even amid unprecedented cuts. Humanitarian aid is facing a make-or-break moment. While global needs and extreme poverty are […]

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Aid in danger

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

Published on 13 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November 2025. According to the two authors, Côte d’Ivoire’s HIV success story masks a dangerous vulnerability. When PEPFAR funding vanished, community workers kept showing up unpaid […]

Ella Noël - Lea Obermüller

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“Unsustainable extensification”: donors deepen hunger with the Green Revolution in Africa

Green Revolution initiatives in Africa promise “sustainable intensification”, productivity improvements to grow more food on the same land. In fact, according to Timothy A. Wise, donors to such initiatives need to reconsider such investments and instead promote agroecology and other low-input forms of diverse crop production. Private philanthropies and bilateral donors have claimed for nearly […]

Timothy A. Wise

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Genre, santé et changements climatiques : les femmes et les personnes LGBTQIA+ font face à des vulnérabilités croisées Gender, health and climate change: women and the LGBTQIA+ community are vulnerable on many levels

Gender, health and climate change: women and the LGBTQIA+ community are vulnerable on many levels

The inequalities that women and the LGBTQIA+ community already face mean that they are disproportionately exposed to the effects of climate change. These effects have serious direct or indirect consequences for the health of women and sexual and gender minorities. This combined gender, health and climate perspective demonstrates the importance of putting the principles of […]

Richard Crombez

Opinion

Neoliberalism: are we past the peak of the epidemic?

While we have all now become amateur epidemiologists, we have also seen first-hand the adverse effects caused by neoliberalism. In an equally relevant and exhilarating parallel, the two authors recount the emergence and subsequent spread of this epidemic, which is by no means unrelated to the pandemic that we are currently experiencing. Which will outlast […]

Alain Caillé - Bertrand Livinec

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Culture

Interview with Bertrand Bréqueville: “At no time in its history has institutionalised humanitarianism been built in opposition to capitalism”

In his third essay, Contre-histoire de l’humanitaire, Bertrand Bréqueville continues the critical reflection begun in L’Humanitaire sous l’emprise du néolibéralisme (2021) and L’Humanitaire à l’épreuve de l’impérialisme (2024 [all published in French]). Interviewed on 25 November at a presentation of his book at Médecins du Monde – France, he defends a radical thesis: institutionalised humanitarianism […]

Interviews

Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

Published on 29 April 2024. The discussion took place on 4 April 2024, as an introduction to the Alternatives Humanitaires General Assembly. The reason why these two conflicts are attracting so much international attention is because they undeniably mark a turning point that Humanitarian Alternatives felt duty-bound to analyse. A complex and ambitious issue of […]

Culture

The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

On the publication of Fichez-nous la paix ! (Leave us in peace!) in the Cartooning for Peace collection, published by Gallimard and in partnership with Amnesty International, Kak and Vladimir Kazanevsky explain the importance of their profession: press cartoonists. Joint interview by Nicolas Foucher of Amnesty International. The president of Cartooning for Peace, Kak is […]

Culture

Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

The renowned photographer Reza and Le Monde’s iconic cartoonist Plantu have just published a book in which they revisit eighty or so of their respective photos and cartoons. The publication, which covers a vast range of historical events and global issues – from the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979 to the genocide of the Tutsis […]

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10 years of Humanitarian Alternatives: A common good for thinking about action

Social action and humanitarian action: a much-needed broadening of the scope of solidarity

Social urgency, local resilience and resistance: when humanitarian players get involved in France

Bridging humanitarian and social action through mental health and psychosocial support: towards ethical and context-sensitive responses in a polarised world

How operating in a domestic context fast-tracks a humanitarian organisation’s existing concerns

A humanitarian organisation in social care: insights from a Médecins Sans Frontières day centre for unaccompanied minors in France’s Île-de-France region

Our publications

Aid in danger

Building tomorrow’s INGOs – towards a more collaborative sector

Aid interrupted: what Myanmar’s crisis reveals about humanitarian system’s fragility

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

Our current selection

After the funding stops: the human cost of aid dependency in Côte d’Ivoire

“Unsustainable extensification”: donors deepen hunger with the Green Revolution in Africa

Gender, health and climate change: women and the LGBTQIA+ community are vulnerable on many levels

Neoliberalism: are we past the peak of the epidemic?

Interviews

Interview with Bertrand Bréqueville: “At no time in its history has institutionalised humanitarianism been built in opposition to capitalism”

Ukraine-Gaza: Exchange of views

The Ukraine war as seen by press cartoonists

Interview with Plantu and Reza: “Infuriating doves of peace”

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