CERAH's mission is to provide a research platform for researchers from various faculties of the University of Geneva, the Graduate Institute (IHEID) and humanitarian organisations.

The objective is to encourage a critical assessment of humanitarian practice in order to improve interventions.

As humanitarian action is essentially multidisciplinary, CERAH's research is too. Research activities are being developed in three main areas :

• Multidisciplinary research programmes examining various aspects of the humanitarian enterprise;
• Research on particular humanitarian interventions with interested partners;
• Studies and analyses for humanitarian organisations responding to their specific needs.