Accountability

Transitions

Associations and their international public funders: reconciling accountability with efficiency in solidarity projects

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) widely decry growing bureaucracy in their relations with funders. For the sake of accountability, NGOs are being burdened with reporting procedures that take up a lot of...

Ludovic Donnadieu

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The endless restructuring of the humanitarian sector : an inappropriate search for performance ?

A refrain constantly heard in the process of professionalisation, the call to restructure the world of humanitarian intervention often takes the form of a reformating based on the principles of neoliberal...

Perrine Laissus-Benoist

Ethics

Ethics and research in humanitarian settings

Looking back on the seventh Scientific Day organised by Doctors of the World – France, the two authors discuss the ethical issues involved in research carried out in humanitarian contexts....

Christian Laval - Magali Bouchon

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

Based on testimonies gathered in different theatres of humanitarian operations, Jasmine-Kim Westendorf analyses the political, as well as the concrete, conditions that facilitate abuses. The author focuses on “transactional sex”,...

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf

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How the arrival of companies re-examines the notions of legitimacy and accountability: the example of cash transfer programmes

Isabelle Schlaepfer invites us to a salutary perspective in the debate on the impact of the arrival of companies in the humanitarian field. Drawing on the recurring question of the...

Isabelle Schlaepfer