Strategic Resourcing in Humanitarian NGOs: Towards the Coexistence of Professionalism and Voluntarism

The aim of the seminar was to raise awareness of the main issues and of the specific needs relating to human resource management in humanitarian aid, and to engage in the debate on the role that voluntarism can play in filling the human resource gap in the humanitarian sector.

The different ways of defining and looking at what a volunteer is and what volunteering is about, are perhaps some key starting challenges that face the HR sector in humanitarian aid. It is therefore also hoped that the seminar will help move closer to finding a common understanding of what is meant by these terms.