Groupe URD, twenty years of action, 2013

09/05/2013

Twenty years ago, the world was going through a major change. There were hopes of peace with the end of the Cold War. In the aid sector, methodological challenges related to improving situation analysis, understanding complexity and being able to work more effectively despite uncertainty were the issues that led to the creation of a little group: Groupe URD. We began as a network of organisations focused on a major question: in the rubble left by the conflicts of the previous decades, what would the relationship be between development aid and humanitarian action in these new contexts?