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Mark Lowcock (UN Photo-Mark Garten-Flickr)

24 November 2022

Relief chief: Mark Lowcock’s manifesto for saving lives

by Beth Eggleston

CARE's local team in Vanuatu distributing vital supplies to communities affected by Tropical Cyclone Harold in 2020 (Valerie Fernandez-CARE)

1 November 2022

Beyond the rhetoric – why INGOs need to change

by Peter Walton

Humanitarian assistance in Kunduz, Afghanistan

21 October 2022

Should Western donors provide aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan?

by Maria Siegmund

20 April 2022

Australia’s Emergency Action Alliance

by Matthew Maury

Flooding in Dili, April 2021 (Gabinete Secretario Estado Proteção Civil-Wikimedia Commons)

9 February 2022

Timor-Leste’s first-time diaspora humanitarians

by Sarah Meléndez Emory

Convoy of US military vehicles carrying fresh water to Rwandan refugees at camp Kimbumba, Zaire in August 1994

3 February 2022

The most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of

by Gordon Peake

Indonesia (Scott Kuo-Flickr)

28 October 2021

National priorities, local realities: humanitarian reform in Indonesia

by Eleanor Davey and Jesse McCommon

Photograph of a young women sitting cross-legged on dirt selling coconuts and bottle gourds which are spread on black plastic in front of her.

18 October 2021

Human cost of the Pacific’s COVID-19 recession

by Dane Moores and Jonathon Gurry

25 August 2021

Debating ten years of RAMSI

by Karen Downing

Photograph of group of eight ni-Vanuatu people in hi-vis vests with two wheelbarrows that have signs saying 'Donation TCH'.

29 July 2021

Localisation in Vanuatu: insights from the response to a cyclone

by Morgane Rosier and Marie-Claude Savard

21 July 2021

The Grand Bargain 2.0: getting the incentives right for humanitarian reform

by Fiona Tarpey

G7 Foreign Ministers adopted a new famine prevention and humanitarian crises compact when they met in London in May

2 June 2021

G7 leaders are stepping up to avert famine. But where is Australia?

by Carsten Bockemuehl

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