When refugees use humanitarian assistance in rational but unexpected ways, aid agencies often fail to understand this “off script” response. Identifying the roles actors in the aid system are expected to perform can help address mismatches between them. 

A ground-breaking new report sheds valuable light on providing sustainable, life-changing energy to displaced people. 

What do fables have to do with understanding structures of inequality in humanitarian aid? Research in Democratic Republic of the Congo shows how personal stories become fables in humanitarian organisations, and help justify decisions that maintain unequal power structures.