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

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Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
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

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Global Conflicts to Watch in 2025: Escalating Humanitarian Needs

Implications of the Blinken/Austin Letter and Sinwar’s Passing—Gaza: The Human Toll

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Conflict and Displacement in Sudan: the Urgent Need to Reduce Barriers to Humanitarian Response

Gaza’s Water Crisis—What Can Be Done
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Global Development Recommendations for the Next Administration
Digital Report by The CSIS Global Development Department — December 18, 2024
Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis: What Was Old Is New Again
Report by Cameron Hudson and Michelle Strucke — December 17, 2024
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
Mitigating Financial Access Challenges
Report by Jacob Kurtzer, Sue Eckert, and Sierra Ballard — October 25, 2022
Finding a Path through Quagmire
Brief by Will Brown — August 12, 2022
Concurrent Crises in the Horn of Africa
Report by Jacob Kurtzer, Sierra Ballard, and Hareem Fatima Abdullah — June 7, 2022
Lebanon’s Growing Humanitarian Crisis
Brief by Will Todman and Caleb Harper — December 16, 2021
Toward Stronger Transatlantic Teamwork: Leveraging U.S.-German Coordination for Humanitarian Action
Brief by Jacob Kurtzer, John Goodrick, and Sana Vaidya — July 16, 2021
Lessons Learned from a Decade of Humanitarian Operations in Syria
Brief by Natasha Hall and Will Todman — April 22, 2021
Civilian Protection through Civilian Control: An Overlooked Piece of Security Sector Assistance in the Sahel
Report by Alice Hunt Friend — December 9, 2020