Children

The place of the child in humanitarian action and communication: moving away from the cliché of childhood as icon

Valérie Gorin • Senior lecturer and researcher at the Centre of Humanitarian Studies, Geneva (University of Geneva and Graduate Institute) and member of the Humanitarian Alternatives Editorial Board Co-editor of...

Children as agents in crises: re-assessing adult-child power dynamics in humanitarian action

The humanitarian sector is not spared from the adultcentrism governing our societies. Taking this notion and its practical implications as a starting point, the two authors deconstruct this doxa and...

Kirstin Kreyscher - Sofie Lilli Stoffel

The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations

Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...

Irène Sesmaisons

The use of digital tools at large scale: lessons from a health programme in Burkina Faso

The first article of this Focus is feedback from a digital health project Terre des hommes has led for almost eight years. This timeframe makes it possible for the authors...

Enric Jané - Guillaume Foutry - Simon Sanou

Children as agents of social and political change for water protection advocacy in post-conflict Colombia

At the end of 2016, Colombia – let’s hope so, definitely – turned its back on the conflict that opposed the government and the FARC for over 50 years. As...

Diana Volonakis - Susana Borda Carulla