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Call for papers – Localisation in an age of funding cuts: First principle or first casualty?

With a view to publishing its 34th issue in March 2027, the review Humanitarian Alternatives is issuing a call for papers for the focus of this edition, whose provisional title...

International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?

Everyone now recognises that Donald Trump’s second presidential term marks a radical transformation of the global arena. His controversial decisions and dramatic announcements are reshaping the balance of geopolitics and...

François Audet - Jean-François Corty - Stéphanie Tchiombiano

When Médecins Sans Frontières realised it was the “international community” all along

Financially independent from the United States (US), Médecins Sans Frontières has abruptly discovered its autonomy is merely an illusion. Drastic cuts in US aid have revealed systemic interdependence, from vaccines...

Michiel Hofman

Mutualisation: an approach to overcoming the funding crisis in the humanitarian sector

The humanitarian sector is currently undergoing upheaval as organisations look for ways to continue their activi­ties with increasingly limited funding. This article explores how mutualis­ation can help aid actors optimise...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarche

Can pooled funds transform humanitarian governance?

Swingeing budget cuts are undermining the humanitarian system. And humani­tarian pooled funds are now (re)emerg­ing as a solution to do more with less. But beyond money transfers, can these mechanisms...

Maryam Z. Deloffre

A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

This article is only available in English. Published on 4 November 2025 As donor budgets shrink and crisis-hit populations face abandonment, IRC charts a data-driven path forward. Through evidence-based targeting,...

Imogen Sudbery

Can anything positive come out of this crisis?

Published on 24th April 2025 The decisions of the new US administration to freeze aid and abolish USAID has sent shockwaves through the system. USA is the largest bilateral ODA...

Wolfgang Jamann

We are becoming insanely indifferent to the world’s misfortunes

Published on 11 March 2025 The collapse of western funding for international aid – for both emergency humanitarian operations and official development assistance (ODA) – is a major blow. The...

Pierre Micheletti

What type of aid localisation is needed for tomorrow’s humanitarian work?

The author invites us to gain a clearer understanding of the different ways in which localisation can or should be applied. In doing so, she lays the foundations for new...

Lila Ricart

The politicisation of humanitarian response and the migration and displacement crisis in Central America and Mexico: challenges and priorities

Mexico, on the northern border of the Central American subregion, is in a peculiar position: as one of only two terrestrial gateways to the United States, it has its neighbour’s...

Kavita Kapur

Ukraine: one year after the beginning of the invasion, dealing with the many contradictions in the humanitarian system

Published on 19 April, 2023 One year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered the first major crisis in Europe since World War II, the humanitarian system has experienced its...

Pierre Brunet

Support under control of civil society actors: the case of French and European international solidarity organisations

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...

Roxane Grisard - Vincent Pradier