We prompted reflection on global humanitarian challenges and how to embrace new landscapes in the fields of technology, methodology and strategy. From climate crises to escalating conflicts, questions arise. How do we overcome localization barriers? What is our role...
Thought Pieces
The Humanitarian Observatory’s Roadmap for 2024
Explore the Humanitarian Observatory's robust research agenda for 2024, addressing global challenges with actionable insights, dedicated to generating profound understanding, and offering valuable perspectives on critical issues. As the primary challenges toward the...
Why do we need a glocalized development? Way to decentralize aid
The milestone It has been six years since the humanitarian agenda has reached a milestone after the UN Secretary General’s call for turning locally-led humanitarian action at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016. This was a call to change the function of global...
Digitalisation in Humanitarian Action: the path forward
As crucial key enablers in delivering effective and timely humanitarian aid to the people in need, digital technologies allow aid organisations to improve collaboration and communication while enabling the delivery of aid more efficiently; rendering a tailored...
Baking Social Impact Business into Sustainable Humanitarian Financing Model
When you are baking, you know every single ingredient serves for a different function, and if the backbone of the recipe is lacking, you soon realise your product is unsavoury. Just as baking, the humanitarian system has ingredients that bring out the humanitarian...
Intelligence collective de crise : Aperçus et leçons clés du Cameroun et du Népal
Co-écrit par la Croix-Rouge du Népal, la Croix-Rouge du Cameroun, et l'Académie de Solférino de la FICR La Croix-Rouge et le Croissant-Rouge travaillent auprès des communautés du monde entier. Nous nous sommes posés la question suivante : comment pouvons-nous mieux...