Building tomorrow’s INGOs – towards a more collaborative sector
Published on 27 November 2025 This article is an extension of our special issue “Aid in danger: After the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response” published in November...
The politicisation of humanitarian response and the migration and displacement crisis in Central America and Mexico: challenges and priorities
Mexico, on the northern border of the Central American subregion, is in a peculiar position: as one of only two terrestrial gateways to the United States, it has its neighbour’s...
Haiti: tensions between aid relief and development in the health sector
Since 2010 and the surge of aid on Haiti, the Caribbean island has undoubtedly become the symbol of the failure of major international programmes. For the three authors the emergency...
A humanitarian consensus à la française
French humanitarian NGOs could not stay aloof of the World Humanitarian Summit, where a major reorganization of the international humanitarian system will be sketched out. At Coordination SUD, the French...
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...
The Global Water Sanitation and Hygiene Cluster’s Field Support Team and the challenges of humanitarian coordination
The Water, sanitation and hygiene sector and the coordination represent two major issues in contemporary humanitarian aid. In this article, the three authors offer us an in-depth analysis of the...
The professionalisation of humanitarian action: a work still in progress
For a long time, the humanitarian sector has claimed its complete “professionalisation”. However, a recent study conducted by Bioforce puts this plaudit into perspective. Rory Downham, who led it, reviews...