Humanitarians know that coordinated humanitarian response is like an enormous jigsaw puzzle – or, when resources are scarce, a high-risk game of Jenga. Ensuring that the right actors, sectors, and context-appropriate strategies are working in concert with one another to save lives, and alleviate human suffering on a massive scale, takes extraordinary effort. The enormity of this enterprise can mean that we sometimes lose sight of whether our actions and approaches are genuinely relevant and impactful in the lives of those we seek to assist. Whether we are helping to make people safer from the ongoing threats of violence, coercion... Read more →
