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

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Beyond Aid Podcast

Beyond Aid

Beyond Aid brings you stories about humanitarian actors and action that go beyond the challenging headlines to focus on how we can find hope and where we can find opportunities to drive change.

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Global Trends in Humanitarian Assistance

In a landscape marked by protracted conflicts, natural disasters, and over 65 million displaced persons, the international community faces the daunting challenge of providing both immediate live-saving, emergency relief and long-term support for risk reduction and disaster mitigation.

Event — October 30, 2017

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Global Trends in Humanitarian Assistance

Listen us speakers explore on global trends in the humanitarian space as part of the official launch of The Humanitarian Agenda, a new, center-wide CSIS program created in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). 

Podcast Episode by Kimberly Flowers and Jon B. Alterman — October 30, 2017

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Beyond Aid

Beyond Aid brings you stories about humanitarian actors and action that go beyond the challenging headlines to focus on how we can find hope and where we can find opportunities to drive change. It features humanitarian leaders, practitioners, innovators, journalists, artists, and athletes who can help listeners relate to crisis contexts in new ways.

Jacob Kurtzer, Director and Senior Fellow with the Humanitarian Agenda, and Kirsten Gelsdorf, Director of Global Humanitarian Policy at the University of Virginia host the podcast.

All views, positions, and conclusions expressed here should be understood to be solely of those of the speaker(s).

 

Podcast Series by Jacob Kurtzer and Kirsten Gelsdorf

Sue Eckert

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Obi Anyadike

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Jacob Kurtzer

Senior Associate (Non-Resident), Humanitarian Agenda

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