Partnerships between humanitarian organizations and companies must be a means, not an end

During a presentation at the European Civil Protection Forum on May 7, Wade Hoxtell cautioned against looking at partnerships between humanitarian organizations and companies as an end in themselves. Instead, he argued that humanitarian organizations should address the more normative question of what roles companies, in both commercial and non-commercial capacities, can and should play as actors in the humanitarian system – and how. Read a new study on business engagement in humanitarianism by GPPi researchers.