It has long been argued – and rather simplistically so – that the purpose of humanitarian action is to treat the physical ailments of populations in foreign countries affected by...
Migration, severe poverty, unequal access to basic services, and health and climate crises are breaking down barriers between social action and humanitarian work in France, to the extent that international...
The operations of Solidarités International in France since 2020 reveal how access to water for vulnerable communities has led to a convergence of humanitarian action and social work. The non-governmental...
Action Against Hunger faced an unprecedented challenge when opening its France office in 2019: finding a role to play in a dense social ecosystem without replacing it. From accountability to...
A collective, coordinated, community response has been developed in reaction to a structural crisis affecting thousands of people in street situations in the Lyon Metropolitan Area in order to reduce...
In the face of climate change, French humanitarian NGOs are adopting different models while confronting a dual injunction: environmental and decolonial. The management tools they use reveal three distinct approaches,...
Bertrand Gaudillère was a university student when he first grasped the power of documentary photography. During France’s university strikes in 1995, he helped set up a newspaper. He and a...
Life on the streets generates mental health problems in the same way as conflicts or natural disasters. And here again, the temporality of the people concerned is not the same...
Published on August 16, 2022 The impact of a management approach in line with market logic is increasingly felt, including in migrant aid schemes. This is what Giorgia Trasciani explains...
In France, relations between the State and the nonprofit sector have often been stormy – a sign of a healthy democratic system. However, here the authors explain that, for some years...
A fast-growing sector subject to severe constraints. This is the paradox in which civil society organisations in France and more broadly in Europe are struggling. The authors provide us with...
Joint editor with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief, of this issue under a partnership between Humanitarian Alternatives and the International Humanitarian Studies Association We have not seen the end of the Covid-19 pandemic....
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