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ID3878
NAMED Hilhorst
GIVEN NAMESD
FAMILY NAMEHilhorst
SIGNATUREHILHORST D
AFFILIATIONSErasmus University Rotterdam
ORCID0000-0003-2280-6833
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS58
TOTAL CITATIONS443
AUTHOR COUNT58
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10
  • How gender, power, and sexual relations shape women's access to fish in the fish supply chain of Lake Kivu, DRC

    Open Access•Moïse Amisi Ezra, Koos Kingma et al.•ARTICLE•World Development Perspectives•2026

  • Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable

    Open Access•Ingrid Boas, Harald Sterly et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Research Letters•2025

    Climate-induced redistribution of people is not inevitable, Boas, Ingrid, Sterly, Harald, Farbotko, Carol, Hulme, Mike, Benveniste, Hélène, Schewel, Kerilyn D, Bettini, Giovanni, Borderon, Marion, Hoffmann, Roman, van der Geest, Kees, Durand-Delacre, David, Selby, Jan, Wrathall, David J, Baldwin, Andrew, Benítez Cortés, Ailín, Bukari, Kaderi N, Bunchuay-Peth, Simon, Capisani, Simona, Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey, Dahm, Ruben, Dewan, Camelia, Dijstelb…

  • DRR pioneer interview with Thea Hilhorst

    Open Access•D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disaster Prevention and…•2024

    Purpose The transcript takes you on a journey of the book mapping vulnerability and the developments thereafter. Design/methodology/approach The transcript and video was developed in the context of a United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) project on the History of DRR. Findings This interview highlights how DRR is central to conflict settings as well. Originality/value The interview provides reflections on DRR in conflict setti…

  • The contribution of armed conflict to vulnerability to disaster

    Open Access•Nicolás Caso, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2023

    Disasters and armed conflicts often occur together, leading to severe consequences for affected populations. While qualitative investigations have explored how conflict can influence vulnerability to disasters, there is still a lack of systematic quantitative studies that provide broader evidence on the contribution of conflict to vulnerability. Although existing qualitative work has made progress in understanding potential mechanisms, large-scal…

  • Path dependency when prioritising disaster and humanitarian response under high levels of conflict

    Open Access•Rodrigo Mena, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2022

    In high-conflict scenarios, humanitarian needs often surpass resources, and humanitarians are faced with ongoing challenges of whom to prioritise and where to work. This process is often referred to as ‘targeting’, but this article uses the concept of ‘triage’ to emphasise how prioritisation is a continuous and political process, rather than a one-off exercise to find the best match between needs and programme objectives. This study focused on So…

  • Gendered experience of disaster

    Open Access•Luna K C, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2022

  • Refugee protection in the region

    Open Access•Simona Vezzoli, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration•2022•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Protection in the region has rapidly become a favoured durable solution to refugee situations and the hallmark of all current policies. These initiatives reflect changes in humanitarian approaches that have taken place over the past decades as the focus has shifted towards the resilience of crisis‐affected communities and the need to enable their self‐reliance. Despite the strong logic that this change will bring about more dignified solutions, t…

  • The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief

    Open Access•Rodrigo Mena, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 19

    Discussions on how humanitarian aid and disaster responses can link better with development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have occurred for decades. However, the reverse transition, from development to relief, is still poorly understood. Using the case of Yemen, this study analyses whether and how development and DRR activities adapted to the emerging humanitarian crisis when conflict escalated in the country. It concentrates on governance st…

  • Above the Fray

    Open Access•D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2022•References: 1

  • Ethical considerations of disaster research in conflict-affected areas

    Open Access•Rodrigo Mena, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disaster Prevention and…•2021

    Purpose Debates on the ethics of disaster and humanitarian studies concern unequal relations in research (among research institutes/researchers/stakeholders); the physical and psychological well-being of research participants and researchers; and the imposition of western methods, frameworks and epistemologies to the study of disasters. This paper focuses on everyday ethics: how they need to be translated throughout the everyday practices of rese…

  • Accountability in Humanitarian Action

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Samantha Melis et al.•ARTICLE•Refugee Survey Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 2

    Although a growing number of NGOs are combining humanitarian and development activities, it was long the case that humanitarian action was isolated from discussions and practices in the world of development. The work of saving lives was deemed to be guided solely by the humanitarian principles, and discussions on accountability were rare. In the 1990s, humanitarian standards initiatives arose in recognition that humanitarian organisations were no…

  • Land governance and tenure security at scale

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Thea Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2021•Cited by: 2

  • Introduction “Politics, humanitarianism and migration to Europe”

    Open Access•Susanne Jaspar, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•International Migration•2021•References: 1

  • When Covid‐19 meets conflict

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Rodrigo Mena•ARTICLE•Disasters•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 20

    The Covid‐19 pandemic has magnified existing crises and vulnerabilities, but much remains unknown about how it has affected fragile and conflict‐affected settings. This paper builds on the theory that hazards become a disaster in interaction with vulnerability and response policies, yet often lead to renewed disaster risk creation. It is based on seven case studies of countries worldwide that experienced social conflict at the advent of the pande…

  • Government and civil society organizations

    Open Access•Margit Van Wessel, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Development Policy Review•2020

  • When the mountain broke

    Open Access•Samantha Melis, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disaster Prevention and…•2020

    Purpose When a major landslide and floods devastated Freetown, Sierra Leone had just overcome the Ebola crisis, which had left its mark on socio-political relations between different disaster response actors. With international disaster response frameworks increasingly shifting to local ownership, the national government was expected to assume a coordinating role. However, in “post-conflict” settings such as Sierra Leone, intra-state and state–so…

  • Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 27

    This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…

  • Disaster Governance in Conflict-Affected Authoritarian Contexts

    Open Access•Isabelle Desportes, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    Disaster governance in conflict areas is of growing academic concern, but most existing research comprises either single case studies or studies of a variety of country contexts that group all types of conflict together. Based on three case studies, this article offers a middle-ground scenario-based approach, focusing on disaster governance in authoritarian contexts experiencing low-intensity conflict. Low-intensity conflict is characterized by i…

  • The (im)possibilities of disaster risk reduction in the context of high-intensity conflict

    Open Access•Rodrigo Mena, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Environmental Hazards•2020•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Conflict aggravates disaster risk and impact through increased vulnerability and weakened response capacities. Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster governance are needed – but often deemed unfeasible – in conflict-affected areas. In Afghanistan, despite the high-intensity conflict (HIC), there is a growing body of practice on DRR. To provide insight on DRR in HIC contexts, this study used document analysis, stakeholder interviews, and parti…

  • Reconsidering humanitarian advocacy through pressure points of the European ‘migration crisis’

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Maria Hagan et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 6

    This paper contributes to discussions on humanitarian advocacy. The European migration regime as constituted by the Dublin regulation, the EU‐Turkey deal and border deals with Libya among others, contributes to generating migration pressure points where migrants find themselves stuck and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. Assistance and protection at these sites, inasmuch as they are available, are provided by a makeshift humanitarian …

  • The humanitarian theatre

    Open Access•Isabelle Desportes, Hone Mandefro et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Modern African…•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This article aims to rekindle the debate on the politics of aid in the increasingly common – yet still under-studied – authoritarian and low-intensity conflict settings, detailing the case of Ethiopia in 2016, when a 50-year drought coincided with a wave of protests and a state of emergency. During four months of qualitative fieldwork in 2017, state, civil society, Ethiopian and international actors were approached – from humanitarian headquarter…

  • Humanitarian governance and resilience building

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Isabelle Desportes et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 16

    Humanitarian governance is usually understood according to the classic, Dunantist paradigm that accords central importance to international humanitarian agencies. However, this is increasingly paralleled by 'resilience humanitarianism' that focuses, among other things, on including national actors in humanitarian governance. This article views humanitarian governance as emerging through interactions between authorities, implementing agencies and …

  • Classical humanitarianism and resilience humanitarianism

    Open Access•D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2018

    Humanitarian aid has long been dominated by a classical, Dunantist paradigm that was based on the ethics of the humanitarian principles and centred on international humanitarian United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations. While in previous decades alternative paradigms and humanitarianisms evolved, this classical paradigm remained the central narrative of humanitarianism. In recent years, however, this paradigm has been paralleled…

  • Disaster Risk Governance in Indonesia and Myanmar

    Open Access•Annisa Gita Srikandini, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2018•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article discusses the discourse and practice of co-governance in disaster risk reduction (DRR). It is based on an extensive ethnographic study of DRR at global level and in two disaster-prone countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Myanmar. These country cases were selected not only because of their similarly high vulnerability to disasters, but also because the overlaps and differences between them in disaster governance allowed for a co…

  • Accountability mechanisms in community-driven reconstruction in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

    Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2018•References: 14

    A lack of accountability is often considered a root cause of conflict. Many post-conflict reconstruction efforts therefore aim to enhance accountability between authorities and the population through community-driven reconstruction programmes. This article examines the accountability mechanisms in the Tushiriki community-driven reconstruction programme in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethnographic research found little impact of forma…

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  • Humanitarian Space as Arena

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Bram J Jansen•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2010•Cited by: 99•References: 26

    Humanitarian space' denotes the physical or symbolic space which humanitarian agents need to deliver their services according to the principles they uphold. This concept, which separates humanitarian action from its politicized environment, is widely used in policy documents and academic texts, even though empirical evidence abounds that this space is in fact highly politicized. To some extent the uncritical use of the concept of humanitarian spa…

  • Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique

    Open Access•Luis Artur, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2012•Cited by: 35•References: 7

    This paper analyzes discourses and practices of flood response and adaptation to climate change in Mozambique. It builds on recent publications on climate change adaptation that suggest that the successes and failures of adaptation highly depend on the cultural and political realms of societal perceptions and the sensitivity of institutions. To capture this, the paper adopted a multi-sited ethnographic approach. Acknowledging that there is no cen…

  • Being Good at Doing Good? Quality and Accountability of Humanitarian NGOs

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2002•Cited by: 35•References: 1

    Quality enhancement of humanitarian assistance is far from a technical task. It is interwoven with debates on politics of principles and people are intensely committed to the various outcomes these debates might have. It is a field of strongly competing truths, each with their own rationale and appeal. The last few years have seen a rapid increase in discussions, policy paper and organisational initiatives regarding the quality of humanitarian as…

  • The politics of risk in the Philippines

    Open Access•Greg Bankoff, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2009•Cited by: 27•References: 20

    It is now generally appreciated that what constitutes vulnerability to one person is not necessarily perceived as such by the next. Different actors 'see' disasters as different types of events and as a result they prepare for, manage and record them in very different ways. This paper explores what different perceptions of vulnerability mean in terms of the understanding and practices of two significant sets of actors and stakeholders involved in…

  • Natural disasters and climate change

    Open Access•Madeleen Helmer, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2006•Cited by: 23

  • Identifying and addressing land governance constraints to support intensification and land market operation

    Open Access•Klaus Deininger, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Food Policy•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 19

    Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly but most of the transfers failed to live up to expectations and instead disrupted local livelihoods. We use the land governance assessment framework to identify key conceptual issues and identify how land governance in 10 African countries compares to global good practic…

  • Beyond the hype? The response to sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2011 and 2014

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Nynke Douma•ARTICLE•Disasters•2017•Cited by: 16•References: 20

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has witnessed a high prevalence of sexual violence since the wars of the mid‐1990s. The huge response to it commenced around the turn of the century, but turned to ‘hype’ towards 2010. The paper defines ‘hypes’ as phenomena characterised by a media frenzy, eagerness by non‐governmental organisations, and pragmatic local responses. Interviews and analyses conducted in 2011 revealed misuse of services and …

  • Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief

    Open Access•D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2005•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    This paper examines the present value of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, in view of discussions on neutrality and the Western bias of the humanitarian aid system, and assesses how it can retain its relevance in future. The Code of Conduct was launched just after the Rwanda genocide of April 1994. A decade later, the crises in Afghanistan an…

  • Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings

    Open Access•Gemma Van Der Haar, Annelies Heijmans et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2013•Cited by: 13•References: 13

    This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the possibilities/impossibilities and particular challenges related to conducting field research in conflict settings by addressing a particular topic of concern: collaboration between researchers, organisations, respondents, and other actors present in the field. Whereas collaboration with local actors has been common for reasons of access and security, there seems to be a lack of recognition of th…

  • Floods, resettlement and land access and use in the lower Zambezi, Mozambique

    Open Access•Luis Artur, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 17

  • Constructing Rights and Wrongs in Humanitarian Action

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Bram J Jansen•ARTICLE•Sociology•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 31

    Human rights entered the language and practice of humanitarian aid in the mid-1990s, and since then they have worked in parallel, complemented or competed with traditional frameworks ordering humanitarianism, including humanitarian principles, refugee law, and inter-agency standards. This article positions the study of rights within a sociology of praxis. It starts from a premise that interpretation and realisation of international norms depends …

  • Humanitarian principles and organisational culture

    D Hilhorst, Nadja Schmiemann•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2002•Cited by: 10•References: 2

    Organisational principles or value standards are considered crucial for maintaining quality in humanitarian assistance. Research among staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (MSF-H) showed that fieldworkers construct their own interpretations of principles and priorities in response to demands placed on them in the field. Organisational principles are important for the performance and the well-being of volunteers: they serve as beacons…

  • Trade networks and the practical norms of taxation at a border crossing between South Sudan and Northern Uganda

    Rens Twijnstra, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2014•Cited by: 9•References: 29

    This article provides an ethnographic insight into how the daily realities of state performance along the South Sudanese most Southern border of Magwi County are an outcome of negotiations between traders and state officials. It is argued that the practical norms' of taxation, meaning the actual rules that govern the actions of state officials, are largely framed by the way in which state officials and traders are embedded in different networks. …

  • The humanitarian arena in Angola, 1975-2008

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Maliana Serrano•ARTICLE•Disasters•2010•Cited by: 9•References: 6

    In conflict and post-conflict societies, service delivery is complex both in terms of actors and of the kinds of services provided. The dominant framework of humanitarian space, with its strong focus on international humanitarian assistance and on humanitarian principles, does not fully capture the dynamics and process of service delivery. This paper proposes an alternative analytical framework that depicts humanitarian space as an arena where ai…

  • Everyday practices of humanitarian aid

    Udan Fernando, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, and the third considers humanitarian partnerships. The authors discuss t…

  • When Covid‐19 meets conflict

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Rodrigo Mena•ARTICLE•Disasters•2021•Cited by: 8•References: 20

    The Covid‐19 pandemic has magnified existing crises and vulnerabilities, but much remains unknown about how it has affected fragile and conflict‐affected settings. This paper builds on the theory that hazards become a disaster in interaction with vulnerability and response policies, yet often lead to renewed disaster risk creation. It is based on seven case studies of countries worldwide that experienced social conflict at the advent of the pande…

  • The humanitarian theatre

    Open Access•Isabelle Desportes, Hone Mandefro et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Modern African…•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 12

    This article aims to rekindle the debate on the politics of aid in the increasingly common – yet still under-studied – authoritarian and low-intensity conflict settings, detailing the case of Ethiopia in 2016, when a 50-year drought coincided with a wave of protests and a state of emergency. During four months of qualitative fieldwork in 2017, state, civil society, Ethiopian and international actors were approached – from humanitarian headquarter…

  • Gender, sexuality, and violence in humanitarian crises

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Holly Porter et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2018•Cited by: 8•References: 19

    Gender, sexuality, and violence have attracted significant attention in the sphere of humanitarianism in recent years. While this shift builds on the earlier 'Gender and Development' approach and the 'Women, Peace, and Security Agenda', analytical depth is lacking in practice. Notably, 'gender' often means a singular concern for women, neglecting questions of agency and the dynamic and changing realities of gendered power relations. This introduc…

  • Humanitarian governance and resilience building

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Isabelle Desportes et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2019•Cited by: 7•References: 16

    Humanitarian governance is usually understood according to the classic, Dunantist paradigm that accords central importance to international humanitarian agencies. However, this is increasingly paralleled by 'resilience humanitarianism' that focuses, among other things, on including national actors in humanitarian governance. This article views humanitarian governance as emerging through interactions between authorities, implementing agencies and …

  • Power Holders and Social Dynamics of Participatory Development and Reconstruction

    Open Access•Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•World Development•2015•Cited by: 7•References: 14

  • Research on Politics of Disaster Risk Governance

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Kees Boersma et al.•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 6•References: 27

    This thematic issue aims at unravelling how the global consensus towards a shift to risk reduction and inclusive disaster governance evolves in everyday governance practices, where roles and responsibilities are evolving and negotiated, permeated by politics of power and legitimacy. It identifies three different dimensions of disaster governance. The first is the formal dimension: the way governance arrangements are designed or meant to work. The…

  • Introduction

    Open Access•Dennis Dijkzeul, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 15

    This introductory paper sets the stage for this special issue of Disasters on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises. It reviews definition(s) of evidence and it examines the different disciplinary and methodological approaches to collecting and analysing evidence. In humanitarian action, the need for evidence-based approaches sometimes is viewed in tension with a principled approach, often unnecessarily. Choosing appropriate research metho…

  • The transition from development and disaster risk reduction to humanitarian relief

    Open Access•Rodrigo Mena, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 19

    Discussions on how humanitarian aid and disaster responses can link better with development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have occurred for decades. However, the reverse transition, from development to relief, is still poorly understood. Using the case of Yemen, this study analyses whether and how development and DRR activities adapted to the emerging humanitarian crisis when conflict escalated in the country. It concentrates on governance st…

  • Disaster Governance in Conflict-Affected Authoritarian Contexts

    Open Access•Isabelle Desportes, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Politics and Governance•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 20

    Disaster governance in conflict areas is of growing academic concern, but most existing research comprises either single case studies or studies of a variety of country contexts that group all types of conflict together. Based on three case studies, this article offers a middle-ground scenario-based approach, focusing on disaster governance in authoritarian contexts experiencing low-intensity conflict. Low-intensity conflict is characterized by i…

  • Aid Relations and Aid Legitimacy

    D Hilhorst, Loes Weijers et al.•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2012•Cited by: 5

    This paper considers mutual imaging of aid workers and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Based on a theoretical perspective of aid as a socially negotiated arena, the contextual and interactionist concept of imaging is used, rather than labelling (which is done to people), or perceptions (located in one actor's head). The paper uses a Q-methodology that symmetrically researches different groups of actors by posing the same questions. Our data confirm …

  • Emergency and Development

    D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2000•Cited by: 4

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  • Village Experts and Development Discourse

    D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Human Organization•2001

    How does discourse work in everyday development situations and how does it order social relationships in local communities? To answer these questions, this paper argues, we have to follow how local actors use different development discourses in practice. Using the case of an indigenous women's organization in the Philippines, the paper explores what local development initiatives tell us about the meaning of development and social change in a vill…

  • Being Good at Doing Good? Quality and Accountability of Humanitarian NGOs

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2002•Cited by: 35•References: 1

    Quality enhancement of humanitarian assistance is far from a technical task. It is interwoven with debates on politics of principles and people are intensely committed to the various outcomes these debates might have. It is a field of strongly competing truths, each with their own rationale and appeal. The last few years have seen a rapid increase in discussions, policy paper and organisational initiatives regarding the quality of humanitarian as…

  • Humanitarian principles and organisational culture

    D Hilhorst, Nadja Schmiemann•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2002•Cited by: 10•References: 2

    Organisational principles or value standards are considered crucial for maintaining quality in humanitarian assistance. Research among staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (MSF-H) showed that fieldworkers construct their own interpretations of principles and priorities in response to demands placed on them in the field. Organisational principles are important for the performance and the well-being of volunteers: they serve as beacons…

  • Opportunities for managing solid waste flows in the periurban interface of Bamako and Ouagadougou

    Open Access•Derek Eaton, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Urbanization•2003

    This paper examines the links between solid urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture in Bamako and Ouagadougou. Staple crop farmers in the vicinity of both cities value urban waste as a source of organic matter and are prepared to pay for it. Cultivation on degraded soils has even been revived in some cases thanks to this readily available resource. However, uncertain land tenure means that farmers have little incentive to ensure the saf…

  • Opportunities for managing solid waste flows in the peri-urban interface of Bamako and Ouagadougou

    Derek Eaton, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Urbanization•2003

  • The Real World of NGOs

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Thea Hilhorst•BOOK•The real world of NGOs•2003

    1. Introduction: The Politics of NGO-ing * 2. Damning the Dams: Social Movements and NGOs * 3. The Power of Discourse: NGOs, Gender and National Democratic Politics * 4. Village Experts and Development Discourse: Progress in a Philippine Igorot Village * 5. Modelling Development: NGO Room for Manoeuvre * 6. Whose Reality Counts: Issues of NGO Accountability * 7. Making Sense of NGOs: in Everyday Office Life * 8. NGO Leaders: A Social Analysis of …

  • Grounding local peace organisations

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Mathijs Van Leeuwen•ARTICLE•The Journal of Modern African…•2005•Cited by: 4

    Since the early 1990s, building peace during and after conflict has been moving away from the conference tables of diplomats to informal settings created by local NGOs. The vast majority, if not all, of the peacebuilding policy and literature argues for strengthening local organisations as vehicles for peace. This paper starts from the observation that there is a dire lack of organisational perspective to the processes set into motion. Current lo…

  • Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief

    Open Access•D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2005•Cited by: 14•References: 8

    This paper examines the present value of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, in view of discussions on neutrality and the Western bias of the humanitarian aid system, and assesses how it can retain its relevance in future. The Code of Conduct was launched just after the Rwanda genocide of April 1994. A decade later, the crises in Afghanistan an…

  • Everyday practices of humanitarian aid

    Udan Fernando, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2006•Cited by: 9•References: 7

    This article underlines the importance of grounding the analysis of humanitarian aid in an understanding of everyday practice. It presents ethnographic vignettes illustrating three aspects of aid response in Sri Lanka following the tsunami disaster in 2004. The first deals with the nature of humanitarian actors, the second explores how different kinds of politics intertwine, and the third considers humanitarian partnerships. The authors discuss t…

  • Natural disasters and climate change

    Open Access•Madeleen Helmer, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2006•Cited by: 23

  • The politics of risk in the Philippines

    Open Access•Greg Bankoff, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Disasters•2009•Cited by: 27•References: 20

    It is now generally appreciated that what constitutes vulnerability to one person is not necessarily perceived as such by the next. Different actors 'see' disasters as different types of events and as a result they prepare for, manage and record them in very different ways. This paper explores what different perceptions of vulnerability mean in terms of the understanding and practices of two significant sets of actors and stakeholders involved in…

  • Reconstruction ‘From Below’

    D Hilhorst, Ian Christoplos et al.•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2010•Cited by: 4

    This article examines an emerging approach, called ‘reconstruction from below’, and its growing body of practice. The article argues that interventions for post-war reconstruction increasingly espouse a commitment to be bottom-up and contextually relevant, to look beyond state institutions, and to provide space for local ownership. The article traces the emergence of this approach to six factors present in international policy. It then examines t…

  • The humanitarian arena in Angola, 1975-2008

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Maliana Serrano•ARTICLE•Disasters•2010•Cited by: 9•References: 6

    In conflict and post-conflict societies, service delivery is complex both in terms of actors and of the kinds of services provided. The dominant framework of humanitarian space, with its strong focus on international humanitarian assistance and on humanitarian principles, does not fully capture the dynamics and process of service delivery. This paper proposes an alternative analytical framework that depicts humanitarian space as an arena where ai…

  • From food aid to food security

    Open Access•Carly Bishop, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•The Journal of Modern African…•2010•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is an attempt to bring food security to 5 million people by providing them with social security to close the yearly hunger gap, coupled with development projects to lift them permanently out of poverty. The programme is an example of the new policy arrangements that aim to link relief to social security and development. This paper analyses the early implementation of the PSNP in two villages of th…

  • Humanitarian Space as Arena

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Bram J Jansen•ARTICLE•Development and Change•2010•Cited by: 99•References: 26

    Humanitarian space' denotes the physical or symbolic space which humanitarian agents need to deliver their services according to the principles they uphold. This concept, which separates humanitarian action from its politicized environment, is widely used in policy documents and academic texts, even though empirical evidence abounds that this space is in fact highly politicized. To some extent the uncritical use of the concept of humanitarian spa…

  • Everyday realities of climate change adaptation in Mozambique

    Open Access•Luis Artur, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Change•2012•Cited by: 35•References: 7

    This paper analyzes discourses and practices of flood response and adaptation to climate change in Mozambique. It builds on recent publications on climate change adaptation that suggest that the successes and failures of adaptation highly depend on the cultural and political realms of societal perceptions and the sensitivity of institutions. To capture this, the paper adopted a multi-sited ethnographic approach. Acknowledging that there is no cen…

  • Aid Relations and Aid Legitimacy

    D Hilhorst, Loes Weijers et al.•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2012•Cited by: 5

    This paper considers mutual imaging of aid workers and Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Based on a theoretical perspective of aid as a socially negotiated arena, the contextual and interactionist concept of imaging is used, rather than labelling (which is done to people), or perceptions (located in one actor's head). The paper uses a Q-methodology that symmetrically researches different groups of actors by posing the same questions. Our data confirm …

  • Constructing Rights and Wrongs in Humanitarian Action

    Open Access•D Hilhorst, Bram J Jansen•ARTICLE•Sociology•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 31

    Human rights entered the language and practice of humanitarian aid in the mid-1990s, and since then they have worked in parallel, complemented or competed with traditional frameworks ordering humanitarianism, including humanitarian principles, refugee law, and inter-agency standards. This article positions the study of rights within a sociology of praxis. It starts from a premise that interpretation and realisation of international norms depends …

  • Introduction

    Open Access•Dennis Dijkzeul, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2013•Cited by: 6•References: 15

    This introductory paper sets the stage for this special issue of Disasters on evidence-based action in humanitarian crises. It reviews definition(s) of evidence and it examines the different disciplinary and methodological approaches to collecting and analysing evidence. In humanitarian action, the need for evidence-based approaches sometimes is viewed in tension with a principled approach, often unnecessarily. Choosing appropriate research metho…

  • Interactive research and the construction of knowledge in conflict-affected settings

    Open Access•Gemma Van Der Haar, Annelies Heijmans et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2013•Cited by: 13•References: 13

    This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the possibilities/impossibilities and particular challenges related to conducting field research in conflict settings by addressing a particular topic of concern: collaboration between researchers, organisations, respondents, and other actors present in the field. Whereas collaboration with local actors has been common for reasons of access and security, there seems to be a lack of recognition of th…

  • Not only a man's world

    Open Access•Marie-Rose Bashwira, Jeroen Cuvelier et al.•ARTICLE•Resources Policy•2014

  • Identifying and addressing land governance constraints to support intensification and land market operation

    Open Access•Klaus Deininger, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Food Policy•2014•Cited by: 18•References: 19

    Beyond concerns about agricultural productivity growth, issues of land governance have attracted global interest as demand for land acquisition by outsiders has increased rapidly but most of the transfers failed to live up to expectations and instead disrupted local livelihoods. We use the land governance assessment framework to identify key conceptual issues and identify how land governance in 10 African countries compares to global good practic…

  • Floods, resettlement and land access and use in the lower Zambezi, Mozambique

    Open Access•Luis Artur, D Hilhorst•ARTICLE•Land Use Policy•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 17

  • Capacity builders for governance

    Patrick Milabyo Kyamusugulwa, D Hilhorst et al.•ARTICLE•Development in Practice•2014•Cited by: 2•References: 10

    Community-driven reconstruction (CDR) has become a new paradigm in post-conflict development. It combines infrastructure restoration with introducing good governance at the local level. Recent evaluations show that governance objectives are not easily met and significant change cannot be demonstrated. This paper adds to this argument on the basis of ethnographic research on a CDR programme in eastern DRC. It seeks to find explanations for the lac…

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