Development

Focus

A development NGO faced with a major emergency in an urban environment

Before being struck by an unforgettable earthquake, Port-au-Prince was a city. For this very reason it suffered so many deaths, injuries and devastations. The experience of GRET (former Group for...

Renaud Colombier

Transitions

Revisiting the Nexus: numbers, principles and the issue of social change

Might the concept of social change enable us to work towards a better synergy between the current actors in the development-humanitarian aid-conflict prevention Nexus? This is the hypothesis of the...

Gilles Carbonnier

Focus

Demographic transition in the Mediterranean: between rising risks and the necessary adaptations of humanitarian practices

The Mediterranean is at the centre of the humanitarian attention as a place of deadly migrations, practically a cemetery whose ignominy is constantly denounced by NGOs. But it is also...

Emmanuel Matteudi

Focus

The resilient child: an alternative approach to suffering child icons

Sophie Nakueira • Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany) Can the image of the resilient child permanently counterbalance that of the suffering child? This...

Sophie Nakueira

Focus

Critical perspectives on child protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo

In light of a violence prevention programme for children and young people, the author challenges the traditional notions of victimhood and vulnerability. Agentivity and capacity for initiative are valued in...

Camille Maubert

Innovations

Towards a renewed humanitarian approach to peace negotiations

The involvement of humanitarians in political processes is a subject almost as old as the existence of non-governmental organisations itself. The author proposes to draw a renewed path, between ethics...

Irène Lizzola

Innovations

Humanitarian action in the face of civic mobilisations. The example of the Senegalese movement Y en a marre

How can humanitarian rhetoric be mobilised in the context of civic struggles in the Souths and how can such mobilisations call out to humanitarian NGOs from the North? Thomas Fouquet...

Thomas Fouquet

Focus

Crossing glances from Asia and Africa towards Istanbul

If the World Humanitarian Summit generates many expectations, it also gives rise to many questions. In spite of the eight regional consultations that took place between the spring of 2014...

Danielle Tan - Mamadou Ndiaye

Transitions

The challenges of the new French Humanitarian strategy

For Alain Boinet and Benoît Miribel, the National Humanitarian Conference which took place on March 22nd in Paris represented a qualitative and quantitative leap forward for French humanitarian aid. The...

Alain Boinet - Benoît Miribel

Focus

Partnerships with private operators: the necessary debate among NGOs

To conclude – temporarily – this Focus, Anne-Ael Pohu addresses the particularly enlightening case of “private development companies”, these companies that were created almost exclusively to intervene on the field of development and...

Anne-Aël  Pohu