Voice Out Loud Issue 11: The Humanitarian Sector: Perspectives on Current Trends and Future Challenges

This issue of VOICE Out Loud is a special edition, as we have given the floor to individuals with particularly longstanding experience in the humanitarian sector. These are people who have, each in their own way, left their mark on humanitarian work in their respective countries and beyond. We asked them to reflect on the issues and challenges that the humanitarian sector, and NGOs in particular, have to tackle, now and in the future. The result is a broad picture of personal concerns and views, which aims to stimulate debate, rather than present one particular perspective from VOICE. The subject is very timely, given that many institutional reforms are taking place at EU and global policy level, while at the same time humanitarian NGOs are facing evolving challenges in the field. Therefore they are more than ever engaged in planning for the future, which is why the VOICE network recently organised a roundtable on "Humanitarian NGOs in a changing world: How do we adapt". This newsletter is another contribution to this ongoing debate.