Sep 24, 2025

Transparency to the Bone: Rethinking Remote Aid with Ina Bluemel

Ina Bluemel

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Sep 24, 2025

Season 3

Episode 2

Transparency to the Bone: Rethinking Remote Aid with Ina Bluemel

The hard truth of modern humanitarian action was this: access had closed, risks had risen, and remote delivery had become unavoidable. In this episode of the DevelopmentAid Dialogues podcast (Season 3), host Hisham Allam spoke with Ina Bluemel—a veteran of emergency health, WASH, and logistics leadership across WHO, IFRC, and multiple NGOs—about what it took to keep aid effective when workers could not set foot on site, frameworks felt rigid, and trust was under strain....

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Ina Bluemel

Humanitarian aid professional

Ina Bluemel is a veteran of emergency health, WASH, and logistics leadership across WHO, IFRC, and multiple NGOs.

Host

Hisham Allam

DevelopmenAid Dialogues host

Hisham Allam is a DevelopmentAid journalist and podcast host, renowned for award-winning investigative work, including the Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to the Panama Papers.

Produced by

Hisham Allam

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Hisham Allam is a DevelopmentAid journalist and podcast host, renowned for award-winning investigative work, including the Pulitzer Prize for his contributions to the Panama Papers.

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Transparency to the Bone: Rethinking Remote Aid with Ina Bluemel

Transparency to the Bone: Rethinking Remote Aid with Ina Bluemel

Produced by

Hisham Allam

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