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  • Grassroots aid is here to disturb the system | Rethinking Humanitarianism

    August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    For Fanta Toure, community-led crisis response efforts like mutual aid are not an emergent movement as some in the international aid system see it, but rather a return "to the way things are supposed to be". Toure, along with Hajooj Kuka…

  • Somalia's plan to break free from aid dependence | Rethinking Humanitarianism

    August 20, 2026 · 48 min

    For Abdihakim Ainte, a senior Somali government official, the international humanitarian system's sudden contraction has been both a "cataclysmic" shock – with devastating immediate consequences – and a reckoning that could ultimately…

  • Will big donors "smell the coffee" or get left behind? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

    August 13, 2026 · 49 min

    Less than a year ago, Colum Wilson left his position at the helm of the humanitarian department in one of the world's largest donor governments. After more than two decades with the UK government, Wilson concludes that "the world's become…

  • Error and trial: What really makes the humanitarian system change? | Rethinking Humanitarianism

    August 6, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Humanitarianism evolves, whether the system is ready or not. This six-episode series explores how. Ben Ramalingam has spent 20 years thinking and writing about the complexity of the humanitarian system and what makes it shift. His…

  • Lessons on media ethics from the Middle East | Decolonise How?

    July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    What are we getting right, what are we getting wrong, and how could we do better? A recent live webinar hosted by Patrick Gathara, with historian Assal Rad and media critic Sana Saeed, digs into the framing of the genocide and wars in the…

  • How to change reporting | Decolonise How?

    June 23, 2026 · 39 min

    We've diagnosed the problem. What comes next? On the podcast: what it takes to change how crises are spoken about in newsrooms and aid organisations. Researcher Jess Crombie and journalist Chika Oduah encourage "uncomfortable…

  • Event | Who owns the narrative?

    June 19, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Across newsrooms, stages, screens, and funding tables, there's a growing movement to reshape how migration and displacement are understood. So what does it look like when the people at the heart of these crises tell their own stories, and…

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About the show

The New Humanitarian brings you an inside look at the conflicts and natural disasters that leave millions of people in need each year, and the policies and people who respond to them. Join TNH's journalists in the aid policy hub of Geneva and in global hotspots to unpack the stories that are disrupting and shaping lives around the world.