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Humanitarian Intervention

The primary insight of the founders of the IASCI was to recognize that various (and traditionally quite separate), national, international, non-governmental and private-sector actors involved in specialised phases of field-based interventions, or related sectors of activity, actually have a shared demand for reliable access to field-based and case-specific information.  Similarly, experience has shown that the internal requirements of different states (when sharing the same caseloads and objectives) also remained basically the same from one country to another.

Bringing this demand together, the potential for providing meaningful efficiencies (in both cost and access to information) for client organisations through practical domestic (inter-agency) as well as multilateral cooperation became self-evident.

Practical application thereafter proved that the continuously improving and specialist ‘tool kits’ of information outputs did indeed address many of the common requirements of professional end-users - especially in regard to their ongoing need for access to high-value, case-specific and field-based information.