24. April 2024
How to Decolonise the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus?
The HDP nexus debate, stemming from the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit's "New Way of Working", aims to better integrate local aid actors into the humanitarian system through collective outcomes and localisation. However, the authors critique that the current HDP nexus implementation overlooks power imbalances and structural inequalities, advocating for a decolonial rethinking that recognizes colonial legacies' impact on funding, staffing, decision-making, and norms within the aid sector.