Aid and Humanitarian Blogs (especially by workers themselves)
This is a list of blogs focused on aid and humanitarian action. It's not a comprehensive list, and I admit that I don't subscribe to all of these.
- Anka's place by a good friend and former PeaceCorps member now living in Kiev, Ukraine
- A humourless lot by my friend, Michael Keizer
- A new map of the world
- Across the divide
- Afrigadget
- Aidworker
- Aidworker daily
- ALNAP blogs
- Babycatcher
- Blood and milk
- Body in motion
- Carpetblogger - my favorite blog-by-a-development-worker. Especially helpful for women. This is more about daily life and trying to navigate the challenges of living in a developing country than it is about humanitarian or development approaches.
- Change around the world
- Concrete and barbed wire
- Congolese dawn
- Ending extreme poverty in the Congo
- Extra extra
- Faster than a falling coconut
- Forced migration blog
- Forgotten Columbia
- From Congo
- From here to Finvara
- Harry Rud
- Have impact!
- Head down eyes open
- Humanitarian relief
- Humanitarian.info
- iDevelopWorld
- If you only read one thing this week...
- In development
- Innovative ideas for development
- International Aid Workers Today
- Itinerant and indigent
- Jackfruity
- Jayne Craven's blog on Eldis (reprints humanitarian-related content from the blog you are reading now)
- Jra's thoughts
- Judith in the jungle
- Let them have faces
- Life in Luanda
- Louder than Swahili
- Mekong River reviews
- My Liberia blog
- My short stories
- Nathalie Abejero
- Notes on development
- Our man in Cameroon
- Owen's musings
- Paradox Uganda
- Pyjama samsara
- Resplendent Island
- Rob Rooker
- Roving bandit
- Sharing means caring
- Straight out of the jungle
- Street kids in Vietnam
- Tales from the hood
- Tales of my life in Mozambique
- The perpetual bloom
- The road to the horizon by Peter, of Belgium. He links to a LOT of outstanding items regularly.
- The signs along the road
- Thea Hilhorst
- Tim in Tamale
- Voyageuse Mondiale
- Worldman
