The never-ending story
Joint editor with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief, of this issue under a partnership between Humanitarian Alternatives and the International Humanitarian Studies Association We have not seen the end of the Covid-19 pandemic....
Humanitarian aid workers and the challenge of climate change
Christophe Buffet is co-director of this issue’s Focus “Are humanitarian aid workers ready to tackle the challenge of climate change?” We were already asking ourselves this question in 2009[1]Christophe Buffet,...
For the climate, end the distinction between humanitarian aid and development aid
Can the consequences of climate change on vulnerable populations contribute to rethinking the structure of aid ? Drawing on the example of Bangladesh and an innovative partnership with Luxembourg development cooperation,...
Data collection: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic in Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Data collection is now an integral part of humanitarian action. And in this area of their work, as in the aid activities themselves, the emergence of the pandemic has forced...
Perspectives on a fractured world
Photos and Captions © William Daniels Interview for Humanitarian Alternatives by Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief Humanitarian Alternatives – Since you started out in photography almost twenty years ago, you have focused on social...
New models of working and partnership in development: the example of Friendship, a Bangladeshi organisation
Founded by Runa Khan, Friendship began its activities in 2002 with a floating-hospital to ensure access to health care for ultra-poor communities in Bangladesh. Since then, Friendship has extended its...
The Rohingya refugee crisis: forgotten then, forgotten now
Lifted with difficulty to the category of major crisis, the situation of the Rohingya refugees at the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh is forever bogging down. Whilst the United Nations...