In May 2016, I stood in Istanbul as head of the secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit. It was an ambitious attempt to ...

Another injection of US cash seems to cement UN pooled funds as a dominant mode of humanitarian funding – and the UN’s aid ...

The Intrepid Humanitarian is an occasional series of dispatches that aims to spotlight the forgotten crises of Caucasia. Last week, I described the first leg of my expedition through the forgotten ...

New principles, independent financing, a single UN agency, a smaller footprint, and oversight with teeth to enforce.

One of the least discussed challenges in the shift towards refugee self-reliance that’s touted by development agencies is the ...

And so, I have been learning to catch kindness in the paths I cross and the people I meet, the same way a swimmer lifts her ...

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Editor’s note: The Intrepid Humanitarian is an occasional series of dispatches that aims to spotlight the forgotten crises of ...

The shift towards localisation is both necessary and overdue. For decades, donors, international NGOs, and intermediaries ...

Nearly 12,000 individuals have been expelled over the past year, and families have been separated amid reports of punitive ...

Gaza is no longer seen as an “event” requiring a reaction or a solution. It has been reclassified as a “condition” to be ...

A busy market in the town of Sange, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's South Kivu province, which has been one of the main areas of recent fighting between the national army and Rwanda-backed ...