Date: June 2011
Author: HFP

This is a study about the motives, interests and capacities that lead both humanitarian and commercial organisations to work together in places affected by disaster or conflict. It considers how these different interests and motives affect the way the two sectors approach their engagement in humanitarian activities, jointly and separately, and the opportunities and challenges that their respective interests and practices pose to their collaboration.

The study was carried out by the Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP), King’s College London, with input from the Humanitarian Policy Group/Overseas Development Institute, along with the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)/Humanitarian Research Group, and World Vision International (WVI). The findings are based on in-depth interviews with senior representatives from 17 private-sector corporations and 14 humanitarian organisations, and desk-based analysis