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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

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Time for Action on Ethiopia

As the humanitarian situation worsens across Ethiopia, the U.S. government and allies should take urgent and meaningful steps to compel all stakeholders to seek political solutions to the conflict and urgently address humanitarian access issues.

Commentary by David Del Conte — December 15, 2021

Launch of the UN Global Humanitarian Overview 2022

CSIS, USAID, and OCHA co-hosted the DC launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022.

Event by Jacob Kurtzer , John J. Hamre , Samantha Power , Martin Griffiths , António Guterres , Natalia Kanem , Sarah Charles , Antelak Al-Mutawakel , Claudia Herrera , and Aruna Rao — December 2, 2021

On The Brink of Disaster: Aid Conditionality and Crisis in Afghanistan

Please join CSIS’s Humanitarian Agenda and the Project on Prosperity and Development to discuss the dire situation in Afghanistan and uncover what more the international community must do to address an unfolding humanitarian emergency.

Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Fawzia Koofi , Hardin Lang , Sima Samar , and Hsiao-Wei Lee — November 5, 2021

U.S. Sanctions Squeeze Humanitarian Assistance in Afghanistan

As the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, the U.S. government should work with all stakeholders to establish a safe payment channel for humanitarian and organizations and financial institutions to move urgently needed funds into Afghanistan.

Critical Questions by Jacob Kurtzer , Kelly Moss , and Sue Eckert — September 29, 2021

What the Taliban Takeover Means for Food Security in Afghanistan

To address the growing hunger crisis in Afghanistan, the international community should quickly remove restrictive measures on humanitarian aid. Strengthening local agricultural systems and capacity is also imperative to stabilize the country’s long-term food security.

Critical Questions by Jamie Lutz and Jacob Kurtzer — September 27, 2021

Impact of U.S. Sanctions on Aid Delivery in Afghanistan

The CSIS Humanitarian Agenda hosts a discussion on the regulatory and legal challenges to humanitarian assistance and solutions to allow for safe and unimpeded humanitarian assistance to civilians in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Sue Eckert , Adam Smith , and Basma Alloush — September 2, 2021

Safeguarding Humanitarian Action in Afghanistan

The CSIS Humanitarian Agenda invites you to a discussion on the future of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan and neighboring countries.

Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Aurvasi Patel , Kathryn Striffolino , and Zuhra Bahman — August 27, 2021

Four Years On: An Update on the Rohingya Crisis

Four years after being forcibly displaced, 900,000 Rohingya refugees remain in Bangladesh with an uncertain future. The humanitarian community, donors, and Bangladesh government should coordinate an evidence- and needs-based strategy for long-term support.

Commentary by Jacob Kurtzer , Sana Vaidya , and Imrul Islam — August 26, 2021

Humanitarian Suspensions and the Politicization of Aid in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government recently suspended three humanitarian organizations. These suspensions are a substantial escalation in the government’s targeting of humanitarian operations and a continuation of a broader pattern of aid obstruction.

Critical Questions by Jacob Kurtzer and Kelly Moss — August 12, 2021