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...
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...
Call for papers – International aid under threat: What consequences? What responses? What reconfigurations?
The Humanitarian Alternatives review is issuing a call for papers for its 29th issue, which will be published in November 2025. This issue will focus on the following theme: “International...
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...
“Researchers should be in close dialogue with practitioners”
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
State-association relations: an authoritarian shift in contemporary France?
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...
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...