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“Researchers should be in close dialogue with practitioners” Interview with Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert has a PhD in Political Science and International Relations. She is a Co-Director of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS) and also Research Director at the...

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert - Virginie Troit

Editorial Focus

India: countermodel, alternative or future partner?

Together with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and specialised United Nations (UN) entities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from international civil society are the third-largest family of international actors....

Balveer Arora - Pierre Micheletti

Focus

The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations

Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...

Irène Sesmaisons

Focus

Localisation of aid through the lens of Covid-19: a matter of choice, or a last resort?

Vanuatu is one of the countries most exposed to natural hazards and one of the few in the world that has not recorded any case of Covid-19. Having closed its...

François Audet - Marie-Claude Savard - Marie-Pierre Leroux

Opinion

Humanitarian work is coming up against a barrier: how can analysis help devise corrective strategies?

Security incidents and the growing difficulties that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are facing to gain acceptance are problems that are both also rooted in the very structure of the international humanitarian...

Pierre Micheletti

Focus

The aid regime to Syria: a failed localisation

Shaped by their bureaucratic habits and destabilised by the unexpected complexity of the conflict, international organisations and NGOs alike neglected the local level. They thus deprived themselves of vital forces,...

Alex Simon - Peter Harling - Rosalie Berthier

Opinion

“What have we lost along the way?” – Disenchantments of NGO

This text by Pierre Brunet found its way into the humanitarian microcosm after its publication on the website Défis humanitaires. It is certainly no coincidence that it has generated so...

Pierre Brunet

Focus

Are NGOs the sole purveyors of honourable intentions?

It’s an NGO that opens the dialogue and, through the voice of its financial director, gives an uninhibited and substantiated speech about companies and the bridges thrown with the humanitarian...

Mathieu Dufour

Focus

How the arrival of companies re-examines the notions of legitimacy and accountability: the example of cash transfer programmes

Isabelle Schlaepfer invites us to a salutary perspective in the debate on the impact of the arrival of companies in the humanitarian field. Drawing on the recurring question of the...

Isabelle Schlaepfer

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