Pages

13 March 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunities:

2025 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks, 17-28 March 2025 [info]
- Note: "The first week (17 – 21 March) will be held remotely, the second week (24 – 28 March) will be organised face-to-face at the CICG in Geneva." See also more info via ODI.

Short pieces:

"Aid and Policy," The New Humanitarian [access]
- See recent opinion pieces and news reports relating to the state of humanitarian aid and the impact of the US aid freeze.

Burden-shedding: the unravelling of the OECD aid consensus (Devpolicy Blog, Match 2025) [text]

Frontline workforce: challenges, contributions and the path forward (Humanitarian Practice Network, March 2025) [text]

Is this the end of aid as we know it? (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

Protecting frontline humanitarians: Australia’s role as a middle power (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

Protection of civilians in armed conflict at sea: developing a humanitarian maritime coordination system (Humanitarian Practice Network, Feb. 2025) [text]

Rubio announces that 83% of USAID contracts will be canceled (Goats & Soda Blog, March 2025) [text]
- See also earlier related AP News article.

Supreme Court denies Trump request to block $2 billion foreign-aid payment (SCOTUSBlog, March 2025) [text]

TNH Inklings Newsletter (Feb. & March 2025) 
- The problem with aid salaries and aid cuts [text]
- What’s the humanitarian gameplan? [text]
- Why are NGOs cutting staff faster than the UN? [text]

"Trump overstepped his constitutional authority in freezing Congress’ funding for USAID, judge says," AP News, 11 March 2025 [text]
- See also 

U.S. Foreign Aid Freeze & Dissolution of USAID: Timeline of Events (Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2025) [text]
- See also related NYT article.

Reports & journal articles:

[ACAPS Reports on Implications of USAID Cuts and Funding Freeze]

Beyond the Targets: An ambitious agenda to put aid back on track (Oxfam, March 2025) [text]

Closing programs whilst continuing to keep people safe: what to consider (Bond, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Lives on the Line: The human impact of US Foreign Aid Shifts (ICVA, March 2025) [text]
- See also ICVA's related resource page.

"Transmission in interprofessional humanitarian teamwork: a scoping review," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:3 (March 2025) [open access]

USAID Funding Freeze and Its Impact on the Humanitarian Response in Syria (Northwest Syria NGO Forum, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

The Aid System is Collapsing. Now What? (The Horn Podcast Series, March 2025) [access]

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