Humanitarian aid for young people
Editor’s note Editor’s note What are NGOs? Who is the poorest person in the world? Is it better to give money or clothes? What is the connection between humanitarian aid...
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...
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...
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...
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...