Why cash is king in emergency responses
Isabel Gomes explains five ways why cash trumps donated goods in humanitarian disasters
5 things we have learned responding to earthquakes
The lessons Isabel Gomes shares about responding to an earthquake are not what you might expect.
Back to school in Switzerland. What about the Sahel?
Huge gaps in children’s education globally are hard to reconcile as Isabel reflects on the worsening situation...
What does it mean to be a humanitarian?
On World Humanitarian Day, we talk to Isabel Gomes about the highs and lows of being an aid...
COVID-19 needs to be a digital driver
By Isabel Gomes, Global Director for Humanitarian Operations Exciting new opportunities to test, develop and expand the...
As we welcome the UN Global Humanitarian Response Plan, much more still needs to be done
Isabel Gomes, Global Director for Humanitarian Operations, analyses the UN's Global Humanitarian Response Plan and its efforts...
How COVID-19 affects children – and why we’re so worried
As thirty million children’s lives are threatened by secondary health impacts of the virus, recognising humanitarian workers as...
Coronavirus: Plans for a unique humanitarian response
An unprecedented threat to children needs unprecedented action
Every drop in the ocean matters: what 20 years as a female humanitarian has taught me
Twenty years of humanitarian work later, I still could not imagine doing anything else. It has taken...