Published:
April 2020
For the past three years, HERE Geneva has been researching the role that mandates – defined broadly as organisations’ goals or missions (the ‘why’) – play in how humanitarian organisations set priorities in situations of armed conflict: arguably the most complex and contested spaces in which humanitarians operate.Unpacking humanitarianism, the study’s concluding report, looks at the work of eight humanitarian organisations, operating across four conflict-affected countries.