Commercial and Humanitarian Engagement in Crisis Contexts: Current Trends, Future Drivers

This is a study about the motives, interests and capacities that
lead both humanitarian and commercial organisations to work
together in places affected by disaster or conflict. It considers
how these different interests and motives affect the way the
two sectors approach their engagement in humanitarian
activities, jointly and separately, and the opportunities and
challenges that their respective interests and practices pose to
their collaboration. There is considerable scope and potential
for the two sides to have an expanded and more strategic form
of collaboration. Yet, for this to occur, new ways of thinking
and approaches are needed, including better evidence about
the business case for the two to engage with each other. The
study seeks to shed light on a topic of increasing interest
and significance in a global context where uncertainty, rapid
change and complexity are likely to be the hallmarks of
humanitarian crises in the foreseeable future.