Population science working hand-in-hand with humanitarian workers?
Vincent Léger is co-pilot of this issue’s 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...
Use of research by NGOs: a call for reflection and action
The authors stress the importance of taking research findings into account for NGO interventions, and identify the technical and political challenges this presents. They put forward several approaches favorable to...
Cameroon: reception areas for displaced people, between socio-demographic reconfiguration and managing Persons with Specific Needs
This article builds on the results of two studies: one carried out in the Far North region on the demographics of the people displaced by the Boko Haram crisis, and...
At the era of “humanitarian digitisation”, lifting the veil of newness
Applications of digital information communication technologies (ICTs) are now commonplace across the disaster response cycle. But some gaps leave a critical and emerging set of risk factors largely unaddressed in...
Fostering good practices in the use of information and communications technologies
Integrating the use of new technologies within an NGO cannot be improvised. This is the key message Maëve de France and Nina-Flore Eissen pass on here. The two authors present...