The invisible
Bertrand Gaudillère was a university student when he first grasped the power of documentary photography. During France’s university strikes in 1995, he helped set up a newspaper. He and a...
Sheltering, hosting or receiving refugees: the unresolved ambiguities of the La Linière refugee camp
Frank Esnée and Michaël Neuman invite us here to follow up on previous work. The latter and Angélique Muller already wrote an article about the social and political actors of...
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...
Lessons in localisation: the Fondation de France’s experiences in Nepal and in Indonesia
At a time when local actors’ capacities are progressively gaining recognition in the field of international aid[1]The Grand Bargain’s second commitment, established in the wake of the World Humanitarian Summit...
Can gangs play a role in providing relief?
The thesis is daring, but in the extreme context of urbanisation and violence in Latin America, it deserves to be asked. In this article, indeed, the author analyses the extent...
Operational research and malnutrition: state of knowledge and food for thought
Many NGOs have already responded to the requirement of linking action and research. For instance, since 2016, Action Against Hunger has been holding a conference to take stock of these...
Environmental health at Médecins du Monde: from the emergence to the structuring of a struggle
Linking environment and health is not obvious for many humanitarian NGOs. Médecins du Monde has managed to make this theme one of its priorities. A look at a fight that,...
About the possibility of controlling an HIV epidemic hotspot
Designed to reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in a Kenyan district, a Médecins Sans Frontières project successfully exceeded the “90-90-90” target set by UNAIDS. A look back on the results...
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....
Breaking the Ebola virus transmission chains: the story of a deployment in Sierra Leone
This article illustrates two of the ambitions of our review. First, encourage and promote the production of knowledge from the humanitarian sector itself where it is not lacking, while the...
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...
Innovating humanitarian practices through socio-anthropological research
The seminar, “Socio-anthropological research at Médecins du Monde: What use is it to act?” was held on 14 December 2018. This day was the opportunity to look back on the ten...