Blog: The Humanitarian Space

In April 2013, the militant group Al-Shabaab detonated a series of explosive devices in Mogadishu, Somalia, including a car bomb that exploded as an aid convoy passed. The attack killed at least 19 people, among…

Resilience, like many other core concepts and buzzwords used by the humanitarian community, is something that feels, or should feel, commonsensical. But as anyone who works on resilience will tell you, defining or explaining what…

This post originally appeared on Global Observatory. Hugo Slim, a former aid worker and leading humanitarian academic, said in this interview that he believes humanitarian agencies can disregard state consent in pursuit of accessing populations…

For those not conversant with relief and development jargon, the verbified term 'mainstreaming' usually evokes the educational practice of integrating children with special needs into regular school classes. In aid work, we speak of mainstreaming…

"The elections will be a major interruption for bureaucracy, INGO movement and gaining governmental approval for INGO work" (Head of International Agency, Islamabad, Pakistan). With the 2013 elections bringing the first democratic handover in the…

A podcast from HPN In this podcast you can listen to HPN coordinator, Wendy Fenton, in discussion with the author of 'The Golden Fleece,' Antonio Donini. The author addresses some of the key questions covered…