24 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Short pieces:

"Chief justice keeps Trump funding freeze in place for now," PBS, 9 Sept. 2025 [text]
- See also related CGD blog post.

"The democratic deficit in global aid: Why humanitarian power needs public accountability," The New Humanitarian, 19 Aug. 2025 [text]

How international aid cuts are eroding refugee protections in the Global South (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]

Humanitarian Resets Past and Present – where have we come from and where shall we go? (Activism, Influence and Change Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

The humanitarian–development–peace nexus and UN 2.0: a field practitioner’s perspective on bridging silos for humanitarian impact (HPN, Sept. 2025) [text]

There’s a Lot We Don’t Know about the Status of US Assistance Delivery. That Should Worry Congress (CGD Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

"Trump's Most Lethal Policy," New York Times, 20 Sept. 2025 [text]
- See also related Facebook post and Bloomberg article on the cost to US taxpayers for shutting down USAID.

The UN at 80: Broke, blocked and still indispensable (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

"UN’s humanitarian work is ‘underfunded, overstretched, and under attack’," UN News, 15 Sept. 2025 [text]

"Why we need a new playbook for refugee inclusion," The New Humanitarian, 14 Aug. 2025 [text]

Reports:  

Adapting the OECD criteria for the evaluation of humanitarian action (ALNAP, Sept. 2025) [text]

Aid Worker Security Report 2025 – Defenceless: Aid worker security amid the humanitarian funding collapse (Humanitarian Outcomes, Aug. 2025) [text]
- See also related Figures at a Glance.

The FCDO’s Approach to Displaced People (UK Parliament, Sept. 2025) [text]
- Note: FCDO = Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Humanitarian Access Overview: Spotlight on bureaucratic and administrative impediments (ACAPS, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Protection Advocacy Toolkit (Global Protection Cluster et al., Aug. 2025) [access via ReliefWeb]

Scenarios for US Foreign Aid in 2035: Examining possible directions for U.S. assistance and their geopolitical consequences (Stimson Center, Sept. 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

Critical Perspectives on the Future of Aid (Sept. 2025) [access]
- New virtual issue with articles from Development Policy Review and Disasters.

"From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland’: what the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response," Disasters, vol. 50, no. 1 (Jan. 2026) [open access]

"The localisation of humanitarian response to conflict and displacement: a scoping review from a health systems perspective," BMJ Global Health, vol. 10, no. 9 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

"Reclaiming Power and Partnerships in the Wake of Donor Retraction through South–South Partnership," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Rethinking Humanitarianism Podcast Series (The New Humanitarian, Sept. 2025)

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