Call for papers – Artificial intelligence: uses, tensions and issues
With a view to publishing its 32nd issue in July 2026, the review Humanitarian Alternatives is issuing a call for papers for the focus of this edition, whose provisional title...
The use of digital tools at large scale: lessons from a health programme in Burkina Faso
The first article of this Focus is feedback from a digital health project Terre des hommes has led for almost eight years. This timeframe makes it possible for the authors...
Data collection: lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic in Rohingya refugee camps, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
Data collection is now an integral part of humanitarian action. And in this area of their work, as in the aid activities themselves, the emergence of the pandemic has forced...
At the era of “humanitarian digitisation”, lifting the veil of newness
Applications of digital information communication technologies (ICTs) are now commonplace across the disaster response cycle. But some gaps leave a critical and emerging set of risk factors largely unaddressed in...
Refugees wedged between corporate malfunctions and the lack of State involvement: the example of a cash-transfer programme in Cameroon
Cash-transfer programmes are now widespread in humanitarian settings, just as partnerships with companies that promote them. Here is the case of the Gado Badzéré refugee camp in Cameroon. For Pierre...