Humanitarian Agenda
Exploring and highlighting the changing landscape of humanitarian assistance in the 21st century
With an unprecedented number of humanitarian crises around the world, the Humanitarian Agenda is committed to inform policy solutions to novel humanitarian challenges through expert dialogue and analysis and to developing and advancing avenues for improving humanitarian response and increasing humanitarian access.
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Analysis
Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
The United States and international community needs to reevaluate funding and response models to mitigate Mozambique’s devolving security landscape, weakened humanitarian coordination, and low levels of trust between actors.
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023
Mitigating Financial Access Challenges
Report by Jacob Kurtzer, Sue Eckert, and Sierra Ballard — October 25, 2022
Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance: Climate and Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Report by Beza Tesfaye, Erol Yayboke, Anastasia Strouboulis, and Abigail Edwards — January 9, 2023
Finding a Path through Quagmire
Brief by Will Brown — August 12, 2022
Recent Events
National Security Memorandum 20 & Gaza Scenarios
Operating in the Cave: Medicine Amidst Conflict in Syria
Opportunities and Challenges in Civilian-Military Humanitarian Coordination
Conference
Sustaining Access: Humanitarian Principles, Practice, and Policy for Today’s Challenges
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National Security Memorandum 20 & Gaza Scenarios
Event — March 13, 2024
Senator Van Hollen on Next Steps in Gaza
Transcript — March 13, 2024
Operating in the Cave: Medicine Amidst Conflict in Syria
Event — March 7, 2024
Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023
Opportunities and Challenges in Civilian-Military Humanitarian Coordination
Event — June 13, 2023
Sustaining Access: Humanitarian Principles, Practice, and Policy for Today’s Challenges
Event — April 25, 2023
Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion: Humanitarian, Displacement, and Climate Change Challenges
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd, Erol Yayboke, and Giorgi Gigauri — March 20, 2023
The Humanitarian Dilemma in Afghanistan
Event — March 1, 2023
The Taliban’s Increasing Restrictions on Civil Society and Aid Organizations
Critical Questions by Marti Flacks, Lauren Burke, and Nicolas Jude Larnerd — February 16, 2023
Rethinking Humanitarian Assistance: Climate and Crisis in the Horn of Africa
Report by Beza Tesfaye, Erol Yayboke, Anastasia Strouboulis, and Abigail Edwards — January 9, 2023