In the debate on localisation, the claim that local players “lack capacity” actually points to an administrative skills deficit. Generative artificial intelligence can fill this gap, provided that its potential...
Now that American aid has been suspended, humanitarian organisations in Cameroon are facing a double whammy: an immediate funding crisis on top of a significant and long-standing trend of underfunding...
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, proven innovations, and local partnerships, the organisation...
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...
Local aid workers are frontline players, but also the first ones to be targeted by belligerents. Here, the author pays tribute to their work and underlines their difficulty to abide...
In the early 2000s, “professionalisation” was the rallying cry in the humanitarian aid sector.[1]“This principle of managerial rationality, currently contested only on the fringes, is, as we well know, a...
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...
Will a blend of different capacity-sharing approaches, based on professional development and activism principles, translate into a stronger, locally led humanitarian workforce? This is at least the solution the author...
The humanitarian sector has not escaped the challenges posed by the decolonalisation movement. While it is essential to face up to the relics of history, we must also be strong...
The mental health and psychosocial support sector has largely fallen under the thumb of neoliberal logic by declining its concepts and standards. Carried away by a double movement of standardisation...
Modern humanitarian aid took shape and formulated its vision on European battlefields with the creation of the Red Cross. Almost a century later, in the 1960s, international aid, which was...
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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