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Mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian interventions: critical analysis of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee guidelines

As the main mechanism for facilitating inter-agency decision-making in complex emergencies and natural disasters, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee has focused on the topic of mental health. The author here focuses his specialist’s gaze on these directives which largely condition the practices of the actors.

Camilo Coral

Incorporating the sciences into humanitarian interventions: the case of anticipatory action

Camille Balcou

Improving collaboration between humanitarian and research actors to strengthen the evidence base for water, sanitation and hygiene interventions

Baptiste Lecuyot - Daniele Lantagne - Marine Ricau

The contributions of clinical sociology research to the socio-humanitarian sector

Maritza Perdreros

Research and humanitarian aid: navigating the unpredictable, limiting the avoidable

Christine Jamet - Duncan McLean

How to co-produce transdisciplinary and plural knowledge to solve complex humanitarian problems? An illustration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Camille Maubert - Jeremy Allouche

Sexual and gender-based violence: bibliographic resources

Sexual abuse perpetrated by humanitarian workers: from moral relativism to competitive victimhood

Emmanuel Noyer - Françoise Duroch

Confronting sexual violence in Quebec’s international cooperation organisations

Isabelle Auclair - Anne Delorme - Jade St-Georges - Sophie Brière - Stéphanie Maltais

Sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian organisations in Cameroon: methods for identification and logics of obstruction

Jean Émile Mba

“Do no harm”: the challenge of transactional sex in humanitarian operations

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf

Reflections on patriarchy and the fight against gender-based and sexual violence in the humanitarian sector

Segolen Guillaumat