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

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Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023

Mitigating Financial Access Challenges
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
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Global Conflicts to Watch in 2025: Escalating Humanitarian Needs

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

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

Gaza’s Water Crisis—What Can Be Done
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Senator Van Hollen on Next Steps in Gaza
Transcript — March 13, 2024
Operating in the Cave: Medicine Amidst Conflict in Syria
Event — March 7, 2024
Evaluating Mozambique’s Security, Humanitarian, and Funding Landscape
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd and Emilia Columbo — August 8, 2023
Opportunities and Challenges in Civilian-Military Humanitarian Coordination
Event — June 13, 2023
Sustaining Access: Humanitarian Principles, Practice, and Policy for Today’s Challenges
Event — April 25, 2023
Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion: Humanitarian, Displacement, and Climate Change Challenges
Commentary by Nicolas Jude Larnerd, Erol Yayboke, and Giorgi Gigauri — March 20, 2023
The Humanitarian Dilemma in Afghanistan
Event — March 1, 2023
The Taliban’s Increasing Restrictions on Civil Society and Aid Organizations
Critical Questions by Marti Flacks, Lauren Burke Preputnik, and Nicolas Jude Larnerd — February 16, 2023
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
The Humanitarian Influence of Yemen's Truce
Commentary by Sierra Ballard and Jacob Kurtzer — December 19, 2022