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...
How the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts showcase the vital role of local players, despite their disputed neutrality
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...
Humanitarian work: obvious progress and persistent challenges
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...
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...
What can be done to implement a stronger, locally led humanitarian workforce?
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 imperial past and decolonised future of humanitarian action
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...
Coloniality and intersectionality in mental health: a rallying call
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...
The challenges of humanitarian transition in Africa
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...
The never-ending story
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....
Humanitarian aid hit by Covid-19
The entire world has, to say the least, been “gripped” by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the “little” humanitarian world has not escaped. It was undoubtedly less surprised by this explosion,...
The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations
Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...
The central role of community health in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic: the experience of Médecins du Monde Canada
Might a community approach be one of the solutions for social distancing, the scope of which has been revealed by the current pandemic? This is the argument put forward by...