22 February 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance - Pt. 1

More on the dismantling of USAID & fallout from the US aid freeze:

News & commentary
  • How the gutting of USAID is reverberating around the world: Worry, despair, praise (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • Which Countries are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; and What Other Providers Can Do (CGD Blog, 11 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • "Fifty countries affected by USAID freeze, says WHO," BBC News, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "Thoughts on aid dependency amid the Trump chaos," The New Humanitarian, 12 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • The US administration assault on DEIA is an assault on the humanitarian principles of humanity and impartiality (HPN, 12 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • Supporting Freedom and a Foreign Aid Freeze are Incompatible — But Perhaps the Point? A Case Study (Just Security Blog, 13 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • A judge orders a temporary thaw to Trump's foreign aid freeze. What will that mean? (NPR's Goats & Soda Blog, 14 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • "US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis," The New Humanitarian, 17 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "Myanmar in 'polycrisis' as US aid freeze compounds long-term donor neglect," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism," The New Humanitarian, 18 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "IRC cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze," The New Humanitarian, 19 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • Which Agreements Are Being Terminated by USAID? (CGD Blog, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • Why the crisis in global aid is bigger than Trump (ODI Insights, 19 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • Humanitarian Reset: Message from Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher to the humanitarian community (OCHA, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • The impact of the USAid funding freeze: what we know so far (Bond, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • Philanthropists urged to ‘step up’ as emergency funds launch to plug USAID freeze (Alliance Blog, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "Trump administration is flouting an order to temporarily lift a freeze on foreign aid, judge says," AP News, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • What’s next for USAID? (The Interpreter Blog, 20 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • "Who’s erasing DEI from their websites?," The New Humanitarian, 20 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia," The Guardian, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "In potential showdown, aid groups demand court find USAID, State officials in contempt," NPR, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • "Judge clears way for Trump administration to pull thousands of USAID staffers off the job," AP News, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • US aid freeze: A catastrophe looming for the Horn of Africa (ECPR, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • "U.S. exempts security funds from aid freeze — but little for humanitarian programs," Reuters, 21 Feb. 2025 [text]
  • ‘We’re Just Keeping Everybody Alive’: The Damage Done by the U.S.A.I.D. Freeze (Refugees International, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • "As the U.S. Exits Foreign Aid, Who Will Fill the Gap?," New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 [text]
Other resources
  • Haiti: Anticipated implications of US funding freeze (ACAPS, 21 Feb. 2025) [text]
  • The Impacts of the US Funding Suspension: ICVA Survey Findings (ICVA, 18 Feb. 2025) [text] (see also related Reuters article)
  • If not (US) aid, then what?, 19 Feb. 2025 [access]
  • US Funding Suspension Resource Page (ICVA, regularly updated) [access]
  • What Americans think about foreign assistance: Findings from a new public opinion survey, 18 Feb. 2025 [access]
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