Data Collection

Focus

Figures as emotional triggers: data issues in humanitarian communication and advocacy

Sometimes, “killer facts” rival shock photos in humanitarian communica­tions. These hard-hitting statistics are certainly intended to mobilise public opinion, but their increasing politicisa­tion calls into question their credibil­ity. How can...

Émilie Poisson

Focus

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

Focus

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...

Candice Holt - Federica Mastroianni - Lamiya Mahpara Ahmed - Xiomara Hurni-Cranston

Innovations

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...

Amador Gomez - Pascal Revault - Pawankumar Patil

Ethics

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....

Christian Laval - Magali Bouchon