Additional sources of burnout included poor programme management, not seeing tangible changes in humanitarian situations, imbalance in personal life, and lack of social support from family and home community.
Any improvement in relations, he said, would be contingent on tangible improvements in the humanitarian situation.
"The tangible improvement of the humanitarian situation is the condition for a credible political negotiation," said Delattre.
Potential effects in at least three key health areas merit critical review: quality of humanitarian health interventions, tangible contributions to population level health benefits, perception of health and humanitarian workers.
In the short term, the west is trying to show that its political support will bring tangible rewards for the government, including humanitarian aid.
Surely, anyone familiar with the conflict realizes that a concerted humanitarian effort that brings tangible, long term results to benefit the Palestinians is an essential component to Israel's safety and long term security.
The recent work undertaken by the Open Street Map community to provide mapping assistance to humanitarian organisations is a really tangible example of what is possible.
Another focal point of current aid doctrine is the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, drawn up in 2005 and an acknowledgment that decades of humanitarian aid had produced few tangible results in Africa.
I'll give you scrap value!" Although Egan's most tangible accomplishment in North Korea may be his efforts on behalf of humanitarian agencies, he lays claim to another, more unlikely role: as an unofficial analyst and policy adviser to the North Koreans.
Germany, which assumed the presidency of the U.N. Security Council for the month of April, convened the briefing to strengthen respect for international humanitarian law (the law applicable in armed conflict), and identify tangible ways of improving implementation of humanitarian obligations.
