Emergency Response

Focus

Improving collaboration between humanitarian and research actors to strengthen the evidence base for water, sanitation and hygiene interventions

It is the subject of “water, sanitation and hygiene” that is the focal point for the three authors in this paper as they single out the obstacles to combined actions...

Baptiste Lecuyot - Daniele Lantagne - Marine Ricau

Editorial Focus

Extension of the “anti-associative counter-revolution”: diagnosis, challenges, solutions.

Co-director of this issue’s Focus, with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief

Philippe Ryfman

Focus

The homeless population and Covid-19: a study of the application of humanitarian praxis by non-profit organisations in Marseille

While Marseille has received a lot of media attention since the beginning of the pandemic, the hard work undertaken by local medical and social service providers has remained hidden. This...

Aurélie Tinland - Cyril Farnarier - Emilie Mosnier - Marine Mosnier - Olivia Nevissas

Perspectives

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...

Andréanne Martel - Nicolas Lemay-Hébert - Patrick Robitaille

Focus

What the Covid-19 crisis tells us about our ability to learn

The ability to learn from previous crises and adapt those lessons to any new context is one of the keys to disaster management, including health disasters. François Grünewald’s article seeks...

François Grünewald

Focus

Tough choices: moral challenges experienced by aid workers during the Covid-19 pandemic

The truly unprecedented nature of the pandemic has mobilised and confused humanitarian NGOs and their staff as much. Forced inaction mixed with setting up programmes within a context of high...

Françoise Duroch - Miriam Kasztura

Focus

Choices at the time of the climate emergency

Knowing about the discussions in progress at Médecins Sans Frontières, as well as the actions it intends to implement to adapt to climate change, provides precious insight. Though they speak...

Bruno Jochum - Carol Devine - François Delfosse - Léo Lysandre Tremblay - Maria Guevara

Transitions

What does the future have in store for humanitarian aid logistics?

Often neglected, or at least “accessorized”, logistics is nevertheless essential to the success of humanitarian missions. Not to mention that it represents 60 to 80% of their costs. Based on...

Manon Radosta

Focus

Humanitarianism at the heart of tomorrow’s urban challenges

The urban clinical picture is disquieting, but not hopeless. Emmanuel Matteudi, in his analysis of the world’s urban explosion, appropriately reminds us that humanitarianism, lying at the heart of the...

Emmanuel Matteudi

Forum

Médecins Sans Frontières in Borno State, Nigeria: a critical look at our operations

Published on December 15, 2019 In 2016, the Operations Department commissioned a critical review of the operations carried out between 2015 and 2016 in Borno State by Médecins Sans Frontières...

Isabelle Defourny

Focus

Tale of a mission to Liberia, unlike any other

In his story of his field experiences Jean-Pierre Veyrenche brings us close to people by giving us the opportunity to get a feel for the atmosphere that pervaded Liberia during...

Jean-Pierre Veyrenche

Focus

Breaking the Ebola virus transmission chains: the story of a deployment in Sierra Leone

This article illustrates two of the ambitions of our review. First, encourage and promote the production of knowledge from the humanitarian sector itself where it is not lacking, while the...

Gaëlle Faure - Jean-Baptiste Richardier - Jérôme Besnier - Magalie Vairetto - Pauline Lavirotte