Trumanitarian

Humanitarians say that they will base their interventions on needs. But how do you define needs? And how do standards and methodologies influence the way we think about humanitarian action?These are some of issues Joël Glasman and Lars Peter Nissen unpack in this episode. Joël is a historian and has written the book Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity.

Refugees and immigrants are confronted with prejudism and negative publicity. The Worldwide Tribe has set out to count this by telling positive and personal stories about people on the move. The Tribe is a fascinating new type of humanitarian organisation that brings a different and powerful skillset to the table.Jasmin (Jaz) O'Hara is the founder of the tribe and in this episode she tells a powerful story about how she came up with the idea and how it is to be humanitarian influencer.You can find the tribe on www.worldwidetribe.com and follow it on instagram @theworldwidetribe.

The travel industry, just like the humanitarian industry, provides everything a person on the move needs. It is also one of the largest industries in the world with a turnover many thousand times that of the humanitarian industry. Gopinath Parayil wants to dual-purpose the assets of the travel industry for humanitarian response during climate-related disasters, thereby contributing towards creating more resilient communities.

Crowdsourcing can play a powerful role during assessment of crisis. During the 2015 Kathmandu Earthquake www.kathmandulivinglabs.org (KLL) played a pivotal role in collecting data from across the affected area and making it available to decision-makers.In this episode Nama Budhathoki, the founder and Executive Chairman of KLL, discusses the role that information and technology can play in shaping the humanitarian narrative and about the business model underpinning a small innovative organization such as KLL.

This is a conversation about data. How we use and misuse it. How we often make decisions without it. What you do when you don't have data but need to make a decision. It is also a conversation about standards and whether they make us less brave.

Strengthening accountability to affected populations is a priority for the humanitarian sector. Since the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit the Grand Bargain has energized the accountability to affected populations (AAP) agenda and led to significant investments in strengthened accountability frameworks.The key question is to what extent this has changed the situation of crisis affected populations. In this episode Nick van Praag, the founder of Ground Truth Solutions gives his take on how much progress has been made and what is next.

Mabala Nyaluwge and Lars Peter Nissen talk about racism and colonialism in aid. Mabala is young, African and female. Lars Peter is middle-aged, Danish and male and Mabala's dad!The conversation pivots around the closeness and distance between their perspectives as colleagues and as family.

The challenges of the humanitarian sector have been identified over and over again but some problems seem to be unsolvable. In this first episode Marc DuBois and Lars Peter Nissen discuss whether there is a need to disrupt the sector and how to "clear the forest" so new solutions can be grown.