Can anything positive come out of this crisis?
Published on 24th April 2025 The decisions of the new US administration to freeze aid and abolish USAID has sent shockwaves through the system. USA is the largest bilateral ODA...
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...
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...
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....
“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”,...
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...