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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Mitigating Financial Access Challenges
Nonprofits experience significant difficulties transferring funds for humanitarian and peacebuilding activities in areas with the presence of sanctioned actors. Ensuring financial access requires close cooperation between the nonprofit, governmental, and financial sectors.
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

Concurrent Crises in the Horn of Africa
Report by Jacob Kurtzer , Sierra Ballard , and Hareem Fatima Abdullah — June 7, 2022
Recent Events

Conference
Sustaining Access: Humanitarian Principles, Practice, and Policy for Today’s Challenges

The Humanitarian Dilemma in Afghanistan

Adapting Aid and Intervention in Yemen

2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum: Closing the Gap
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Rescue in Ukraine
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz and Jacob Kurtzer — May 3, 2022

The Humanitarian Crisis in Ukraine
Event by Jacob Kurtzer , J. Stephen Morrison , Charli Carpenter , Alex Mahoney , Maggie Fleming , and Lauren Pucci — March 24, 2022
Implications of the Concurrent Conflict and Drought in the Horn of Africa
Event by David Del Conte , Jeremy Taylor , and Ghada Hatim Eltahir Mudawi — March 23, 2022
Drought Hits the Horn of Africa
Critical Questions by David Del Conte — March 21, 2022
Spotlight on Civilian Harm in the Mariupol Theater Airstrike
Commentary by Jacob Kurtzer , Marti Flacks , Matthew P. Funaiole , and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. — March 21, 2022
Ukrainian Refugees and Food Insecurity
Podcast Episode by H. Andrew Schwartz , Caitlin Welsh , and Jacob Kurtzer — March 16, 2022

Launch of the Feb. 2022 Issue of the International Review of the Red Cross: “Counterterrorism, Sanctions and War”
Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Sue Eckert , Emanuela-Chiara Gillard , Justine Walker , and Bruno Demeyere — March 3, 2022
Ukraine’s Regional Displacement Crisis
Commentary by Erol Yayboke — February 25, 2022
The Humanitarian Toll of Russia’s Invasion
Commentary by Jacob Kurtzer — February 25, 2022
What’s next for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan?
Event by Annie Pforzheimer , Nilofar Sakhi , James B. Cunningham , and Mark Bowden — February 24, 2022