We are facing an increasingly complex environment, with changes in demography, human geography and economic growth throwing up new challenges alongside the more familiar ones of mass poverty in the midst of plenty. The achievements highlighted in our 2012-2013 Annual Report reflect our consistent focus on the long-term issues for development and humanitarian action, as well as our agility to engage, at speed, with emerging challenges.

This Working Paper focuses on the humanitarian community’s extensive engagement with rebel movements in Darfur from 2003-2012. Based on first-hand accounts of experiences of aid workers and rebels who participated in humanitarian negotiations, it documents the rise, decline and disappearance of cross-line aid over the last ten years.