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A new era for aid: prioritising people and protecting progress

As donor budgets shrink and crisis-hit populations face abandonment, IRC charts a data-driven path forward. Through evidence-based targeting, proven innovations, and local partnerships, the organisation demonstrates how strategic action can...

Imogen Sudbery

Radical criticism

Le mot de l’éditeur Contre-histoire de l’humanitaire [An Alternative history of humanitarian aid] is a critical analysis of the humanitarian sector, which is increasingly ruled by funding, the priorities of...

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

Geneva’s Role as a Centre for International Cooperation Faces a New Challenge from the U.S.

Published on 10 April 2025 Stability in the Balance Geneva, French-speaking Switzerland’s largest city, is celebrated as the birthplace of Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red...

Daniel Suda-Lang

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

Associations and their international public funders: reconciling accountability with efficiency in solidarity projects

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) widely decry growing bureaucracy in their relations with funders. For the sake of accountability, NGOs are being burdened with reporting procedures that take up a lot of...

Ludovic Donnadieu

“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

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

India’s humanitarian assistance abroad: a domestic and foreign policy issue

Although it has a strong civil society, India deploys its humanitarian aid mainly through bilateral and, gradually, multilateral channels. Rooted in a long-standing approach, indexed to both domestic and external...

Rachna Shanbog - Rob Kevlihan

The Naxalite conflict in India: what role for humanitarian organisations?

An interminable conflict has been shaking the Indian Union since the 1960s. Often overlooked in international discussions and by the media, the “Naxalite–Maoist insurgency” sheds light on the particularities of...

Nancy Saurelle Ndjomo Kabayene - Samuel Cédric Ngueda

The reception system for asylum seekers: are civil society organisations still free to pursue their mission?

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...

Giorgia Trasciani

Incorporating the sciences into humanitarian interventions: the case of anticipatory action

The anticipation of natural risks, especially due to climate change, has received increasing attention over the past few years. The author explains which forms this “anticipatory action” can take as...

Camille Balcou