Author: Adhiambo Mugenya
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Understanding Trust
Cohere believes that humanitarian action, the act of helping others, should be led by trusting relationships rather than systems. This made me stop and ask: what does trust actually mean? Defining trust Rousseau and colleagues define trust as “a psychological state comprising the intention to accept vulnerability based upon positive expectations of the intentions or…
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Help Without Organisation
How can help be channelled? Should humanitarian aid flow only through an organisation? We (Joseph, Adhiambo, and Jovial) recently spent 10 days travelling through Kampala and southwest Uganda, listening to refugee leaders and having very interesting conversations about how to truly listen to the community and understand the community’s needs. One of our heated discussions…