07 August 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

Deploying frozen assets for humanitarian needs? Responding to the ODA crisis (HPN, July 2025) [text]

Fixing the Spending Crisis at the Department of State (CGD Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

"State Department addresses decision to destroy 500 tons of emergency food," ABC News, 17 July 2025 [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

"What does a crisis look like? The ethics of humanitarian imagery," The New Humanitarian, 15 July 2025 [text]

"What the spread of the 'great replacement' conspiracy theory means for humanitarian aid," The New Humanitarian, 24 July 2025 [text]

What will rescission do to foreign aid? Details are murky. Here's what we found out (Goats & Soda Blog, July 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related CGD blog post.

Reports & journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 29 (July 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue theme is "Communication challenges in the era of fake news and 'post-truth' = Communication : les défis à l’ère des fake news et de la 'post-vérité'."

Coordinating in Crisis: Strengthening NGO coordination and collective response in rapid onset humanitarian emergencies (ICVA, June 2025) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"Humanitarian virtue: identifying ethics and values in humanitarian thinking," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

IASC Policy on Protection in Humanitarian Action: An Aide Memoire (Global Protection Cluster, Oct. 2024) [text]

On the brink: The devastating toll of aid cuts on people forced to flee (UNHCR, July 2025) [text]
- See also related briefing note.

The Power of Flexible Funding in Enabling Adaptive Programing (Re:BUiLD program, July 2025) [access]

Strengthening Leadership of Local and National Actors in Humanitarian Coordination: Practical Case Studies (UNICEF, Feb. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for English and Arabic versions; also available in French and Spanish.

Multimedia:

When USAID Freezes, Who Pays? The Dangerous Myth of Remittances in Global Crises, 12 March 2025 [access]

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