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
Senator Van Hollen on Next Steps in Gaza
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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Launch of the Feb. 2022 Issue of the International Review of the Red Cross: “Counterterrorism, Sanctions and War”
Event — March 3, 2022
Assessing Economic Crisis Response Options for Afghanistan
Commentary by Jacob Kurtzer and Alex Zerden — February 9, 2022
The Global Humanitarian Overview 2022: Climate, Gender, and Humanitarian Response
Critical Questions by Jacob Kurtzer, Nicolas Jude Larnerd, and Hareem Fatima Abdullah — January 27, 2022
A Humanitarian Emergency: The Collapse of Afghanistan's Banking System
Event — December 17, 2021
U.S. Sanctions Squeeze Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan
Critical Questions by Jacob Kurtzer, Kelly Moss, and Sue Eckert — September 29, 2021
Mitigating the Impact of Sanctions on Humanitarian Action
Event — April 7, 2021
Syria’s Economic Collapse and Its Impact on the Most Vulnerable
Commentary by Barrett Alexander and Ahlam* (*Pseudonym for staff based in Syria) — February 18, 2021
CSIS Urban Legends Series: U.S. Cities as Foreign Policy Leaders
Event — February 17, 2021
Sue Eckert