A group of NGO staff working in Lebanon have written a reflection on their experience of cash programming. They prefer to remain anonymous. They have asked me to share it, in order to foster debate.

The World Humanitarian Summit starts on Monday, bringing together (some) global leaders to agree ways to better respond to the world’s crises. Here’s what to watch out for.

Who’s going to show up?

For a long time, my password was based on the name of someone I’d never met.

Conveniently unguessable, it also served as a micro-memorial of sorts; we’d both worked in a hot, very difficult corner of a country at war, with epic malnutrition rates and thousands of skin-and-bone…

Today marks a new beginning for IRIN. No longer part of the UN, we’re an independent non-profit news and information service providing the inside story on emergencies.

Our goal remains the same: compelling coverage of the causes and effects of humanitarian crises, as well as…