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

Adapting Aid and Intervention in Yemen

2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum: Closing the Gap

Overcoming Barriers to Humanitarian Access in Northern Ethiopia

Finding a Path Through Quagmire: Humanitarian Access and Coordination in the Sahel
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Addressing the Needs of Central American Asylum Seekers and Vulnerable Migrants
Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Daniel F. Runde , Erol Yayboke , Kelly Clements , Ralph Merriam , and Nancy Izzo Jackson — March 3, 2021

Protection in Northern Syria
Commentary by Global Communities Protection Staff in Syria and Emily Galloway — March 2, 2021

Civilians in the Crosshairs: The Cost of a Decade of Impunity in Syria
Commentary by Rehana Zawar Ali and Mazen Kewara — March 2, 2021

Operational Impediments Standing in the Way of Principled Humanitarian Response in Syria
Commentary by Mais Balkhi — February 23, 2021

Access to All Syrians Must Be at the Heart of All Syria Policy
Commentary by Basma Alloush and Oula Mashfj — February 23, 2021

Restoring Humanitarian Access in Ethiopia
Event by Jacob Kurtzer , Judd Devermont , Jan Egeland , Catherine Wiesner , and Daniel Bekele — February 22, 2021

Colombia Makes History by Offering Protective Status to Displaced Venezuelans
Critical Questions by Erol Yayboke , Jacob Kurtzer , Hannah Davin , and Molly Naylor-Komyatte — February 19, 2021

Covid-19: Compounding 10 Years of Health Crises in Syria
Commentary by Amany Qaddour and Kat Fallon — February 18, 2021

Addressing the Growing Hunger Crisis in Syria
Commentary by Ali* (*Pseudonym for staff based in Syria) , Mohamad* (*Pseudonym for staff based in Syria) , and Kari Reid — February 18, 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
