01 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Cuts in US development assistance (EPRS, March 2025) [text]

"Decolonise How? To change humanitarian aid, we need to change media coverage too," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2025 [text]

Defending humanitarian aid in terms of national security obscures its real purpose (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Europe compounding Trump aid vandalism – Australia must take a different path (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

"HNPWhat next?," The New Humanitarian, 27 March 2025 [text]

The Humanitarian Reset, ERC letter to IASC Principals (March 2025) [text]

How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save? (CGD Blog, March 2025) [text]
- See also related NYT article

"Humanitarian data drought: The deeper damage wrought by US aid cuts," The New Humanitarian, 25 March 2025 [text]

[Posts relating to the US Agency for International Development (USAID)] (Center for Global Development Blog, 2025) [access]

Statement by UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi on the impact of global aid cuts on refugees (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]
- See also related InfoMigrants interview and UN News article.

TNH Inklings Newsletter (March 2025)

US aid cuts are a soft power surrender to China (The Interpreter Blog, March 2025) [text]

US isn’t first country to dismantle its foreign aid office − here’s what happened after the UK killed its version of USAID (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

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

"Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement," Journal of Global History, FirstView, 24 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Intermediary models to advance locally led humanitarian action (ALNAP, Feb. 2025) [text]

"Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring," Big Data & Society, 21 March 2025 [open access]

What crisis affected communities need from a humanitarian reset: A guide based on two years of conversations with people on the front lines of crisis (Ground Truth Solutions, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"You Already Know Enough: Certainty and Ignorance in Data-Driven Humanitarianism," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 13 Feb. 2025 [open access]

Resources:

The future of aid (ODI) [access]

US Foreign Aid Funding Cuts & Suspensions: Resources & Updates (ICVA) [access]

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