10 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Accelerating Refugee Inclusion Amidst Devastating Aid Cuts (CGD Blog, June 2025) [text]

Breaking system inertia: why the humanitarian reset must prioritise civilian protection (HPN, July 2025) [text]

Cuts to USAID: The Fallout Continues (Global Policy Blog, June/July 2025) [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
- See also related CGD blog post.

How aid cuts may be affecting humanitarian workers (The Conversation, June 2025) [text]

["Humanitarian Reset" articles in The New Humanitarian]
- "Beyond the reset: Five priorities for genuine humanitarian transformation," 19 June 2025 
- "Reset, reform, or repeat? Humanitarianism’s reboot searches for the right script," 16 June 2025

The Ongoing Crisis in US Foreign Assistance Delivery (CGD Blog, July 2025) [text]
- See also earlier related blog post.

"Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?," New York Times, 31 May 2025 [text]

The UN Relief Chief Makes a Splash, but is He Right for the Job? (PassBlue, May 2025) [text]

UNHCR steadfast in refugee protection as it completes review of operations, structures and staffing (UNHCR, June 2025) [text]
- Related note: So far, UNHCR has closed/is planning to close field offices in: ConstanČ›a, RomaniaSuceava, Romania; Laayoune, Western Sahara; four in MexicoTindouf, Algeria; and Trinidad & Tobago, as well as some UNHCR-supported community centers in Syria.

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? (VoxDev, June 2025) [text]

Why Humanitarianism Continues Despite the Famine of Resources: The dreadful logic of suffering (International Development Blog, June 2025) [text]

"Why pivoting to local partners is best for one cash-strapped UK charity," The New Humanitarian, 5 June 2025 [text]

Reports:

Costs of Immunization Services in Humanitarian Settings (International Rescue Committee, June 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Flexible Funding in 2024 (UNHCR, June 2025) [access]

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025 (ALNAP, June 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report and launch event recording.

The IASC Humanitarian Reset examined: A strategic briefing for NGOs (ICVA, updated June 2025) [access]
- See also related planning paper.

Lives at Risk: Chaotic and Abrupt Cuts to Foreign Aid Put Millions of Lives at Risk (Amnesty International, May 2025) [access]

Putting the Humanitarian Principles into Practice: A Practical Guide for Humanitarian NGO Leaders (ICVA, May 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Reckoning and Renewal: A Future-ready Humanitarian System (Grand Bargain Ambassadors, July 2025) [access]

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Development of supplier evaluation framework for resilient and sustainable humanitarian supply chains," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 6 May 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating protection, inclusiveness and dignity in humanitarian aid: a systematic literature review," Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, EarlyCite, 24 June 2025 [open access]

"Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis," The Lancet, Online First, 30 June 2025 [open access]
- See also related CNN article.

"Humanitarian observatories: insights for reforming humanitarianism from below," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:10 (June 2025) [open access]

"The impact of US foreign aid cuts on global health," Chapter in The economic consequences of the second Trump administration: A preliminary assessment (CEPR Press, June 2025) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 459.

Multimedia:

An interview with UN relief chief Tom Fletcher (Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series, 10 July 2025) [access]

What’s missing is a relationship with the grassroots (Power Shift Podcast Series, 5 June 2025) [access]

Resource:

ReliefWeb Submit: Share Your Updates with the Humanitarian Community [info]
- "A new service that allows UN partners to directly contribute content to ReliefWeb through a simple and secure submission form."

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