17 April 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

"Aligning" aid: Which interests and whose interests? (The Interpreter Blog, April 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Can Innovation Help Blunt the Impact of Foreign Aid Cuts on Migration Management Programs? (Migration Policy Institute, April 2025) [text]

Global First Responders: What UNHCR does when emergencies strike (UNHCR, April 2025) [text]

The New Washington Dissensus: Trump’s Five Principles for Global Development Policy (CGD Blog, April 2025) [text]

"OCHA, the UN’s emergency aid coordination arm, to cut staff by a fifth," The New Humanitarian, 11 April 2025 [text]

Shelter from the Storm: Building Dignified and Resilient Shelters for Refugees (Wilson Center, April 2025) [text]

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts (Boston Univ., March 2025) [text]
- See also related Nature report ($).

"Trump cuts leave aid agencies with pivotal decisions on humanitarian logistics," The New Humanitarian, 3 April 2025 [text]

"UN High Commissioner for Refugees warns that deprioritising international aid will lead to global 'insecurity and instability'," King’s College London News, 11 April 2025 [text]
- Includes video recording of the HC's address.

"The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’," AP News, 8 April 2025 [text]
- See also related NYT and Reuters articles and comment published in Nature .

The USAID Fait Accompli (CGD Blog, April 2025) [text]
- See also related Goats and Soda blog post.

"What new funding data tells us about donor decisions in 2025," The New Humanitarian, 17 April 2025 [text]

"White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups," AP News, 14 April 2025 [text]
- See also related NYT article

"Why a reset is not reform," TNH Inklings Newsletter, 16 April 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Effects of COVID-19 on international organizations, humanitarian action, and human rights," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:7 (April 2025) [open access]

Humanitarian Organisations’ Use of Money Service Providers (Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2025) [text]

Lives in Dignity: Lessons from Applying Development-Oriented Approaches in Forced Displacement Contexts (European Commission & UNOPS, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Our interconnected humanitarian data and analysis ecosystem: resilience, reckoning? (HPN, April 2025) [text]

Practice Note: Continuity of Protection in Humanitarian Coordination Transitions (Norwegian Refugee Council & Protection Cluster, April 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Triple Humanitarian, Development and Peace Nexus: In Context and Everyday Perspective (Wiley, 2025) [access]
- Chapters from this forthcoming e-book are being serialised on Global Policy.

UK aid: Reducing spending to 0.3% of GNI by 2027/28 (UK House of Commons Library, April 2025) [text]
- See also related CGD blog post and article in The Independent.

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