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

Safeguarding Humanitarian Action: The United States’ Critical Role in Renewing UN Security Council Resolution 2664

On December 9, the UNSC will consider renewing Resolution 2664 and the ISIL/Al-Qaida carve-out. Failure to renew would undo two years of improved financial access and risk delayed transactions critical for reaching people in crisis.

Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Michelle Strucke — December 5, 2024

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Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis: What Was Old Is New Again

Report by Cameron Hudson and Michelle Strucke — December 17, 2024

Humanitarian Finance: A Missed Opportunity for Reform at the Summit of the Future

Critical Questions by Marc Cohen and Michelle Strucke — September 30, 2024

The Red Zone: Charting Paths to Resilience in the Climate-Conflict Nexus

May 15, 2024 • 9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT

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Global Conflicts to Watch in 2025: Escalating Humanitarian Needs

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

October 22, 2024 • 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT

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

September 30, 2024 • 4:00 – 5:00 pm EDT

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Gaza’s Water Crisis—What Can Be Done

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Beyond Aid

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Humanitarian Finance: A Missed Opportunity for Reform at the Summit of the Future

The United Nations hosted the Summit of the Future in New York on September 20–23, seeking to “forge a new international consensus on how we deliver a better present and safeguard the future," yet humanitarian finance was not meaningfully included in its agenda or outcome.

Critical Questions by Marc Cohen and Michelle Strucke — September 30, 2024