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The Big Tent
Coordination is a hot topic among humanitarians and for good reason. It is of concern to all of us, that scarce resources are applied effectively and efficiently. A seasoned disaster manager once told...
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Mediocre Diversity
This post is based on a short talk I gave at a seminar for a group of human resource practitioners from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. The brief had been to speak on “Managing Diversity” and to...
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Inward accountability
I went for a run and for some reason this sentence kept popping into my head: A risk adverse humanitarian is a disaster in itself. And suddenly I realised how fed up I am with all the people in this...
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What we need to know
The general disconnect between the people who produce and the people who use data in the humanitarian sector is a source of great irritation. I think there is too much focus on supply, not enough on...
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Risk and Innovation – the Start Network
I have been drafting a couple of blog posts on taking risk – responsible risk taking as promised in this post, but have been unable to crack it. Suddenly the story of the Start Network falls into my...
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According to need?
I am on my way home from a region which is suffering under a conflict, which has caused more than 164,000 fatalities over the past five years. A region where deaths due to violence per 100,000 persons...
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The Humanitarian Failures Fair
I have worked in the humanitarian sector my entire professional life, yet I have not yet come home from an operation thinking: “That went well.” There is a good reasons for that: Disasters per...
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More overlap please!
In Geneva we spend a lot of time synchronising cuckoo clocks – ensuring that the big humanitarian players are in tune. In recent years the main vehicle for this discussion has been the Transformative...
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Sudden onset rock festival
Roskilde Festival has been a part of every sensible young Dane’s life for more than a generation. Every year, around 100.000 people gather near the town of Roskilde and for a week, an otherwise...
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H2H – pieces of a puzzle
I have wanted to write this blog post for a long time. It is only now, listening to the presentations at the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) global consultation in Geneva, that I seem to have got my...
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