09 December 2025

Thematic Focus: Humanitarian Assistance

Opportunity:

CFP: Journal of International Humanitarian Action [info]
- Contributions sought for thematic collection on "Humanitarian Aid Worker: Ethics, Altruism, and Best Practices." Submission deadline is 31 January 2026.

Short pieces:

Early donor support tops $1 billion for 2026, but widening funding gaps leave millions at risk (UNHCR, Dec. 2025) [text]

"Five takeaways from the UN’s aid plans for 2026," The New Humanitarian, 8 Dec. 2025 [text]

The Precarity of Humanitarian Aid and Its Restriction as a Tactic (Observer Research Foundation, Nov. 2025) [text]

Protection in protracted displacement: Putting personal safety first (IDS Opinion, Dec. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Course Corrections: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency in Humanitarian Energy (Global Platform for Action, Oct. 2025) [text via UNHCR]

Financing for Locally-led Action: A framework for understanding options and accelerating impact (DanChurchAid, Dec. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Prioritising humanitarian resources: How to decide who receives what kind of support (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [text]

Prioritising humanitarian resources: How to think clearly about what matters most (ALNAP, Nov. 2025) [text]

Protection Field Coordination Toolkit (Global Protection Cluster, June 2025) [access]
- "​This Toolkit is made up of 12 chapters - which will guide you through the humanitarian coordination system, the expectations of cluster coordination teams, and key concepts in humanitarian action."

Supporting mutual aid: What the evidence tells us (ALNAP, Dec. 2025) [text]

Journal articles & book chapters:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 30 (Nov. 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]
- Issue theme is "Aid in danger: after the shock of 2025, the consequences and the response." See also the companion webpage.

"The Death of USAID: How Elon Musk and Donald Trump Ended America's Foreign Aid Agency," Public Administration and Development, vol. 45, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access

"The end of development aid? How aid cuts may reshape migration management," Essay in Mixed Migration Review 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

"Foreign Aid Allocation as Migration Control: Root Causes or Migration Management?," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 10 Nov. 2025 [open access]

"Funding cuts and crises: struggles and hopes of humanitarian NGOs," Interview in Mixed Migration Review 2025 (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2025) [text]

The Humanitarian Leader, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

"The Impact of Two Decades of Humanitarian and Development Assistance and the Projected Mortality Consequences of Current Defunding to 2030: Retrospective Evaluation and Forecasting Analysis," Preprint submitted to The Lancet, 19 Nov. 2025 [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, nos. 2-3 (Nov. 2025) [open access]
- Mix of articles.

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