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

Opportunities and Challenges in Civilian-Military Humanitarian Coordination

Conference
Sustaining Access: Humanitarian Principles, Practice, and Policy for Today’s Challenges

The Humanitarian Dilemma in Afghanistan

Adapting Aid and Intervention in Yemen
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Panel 4: Humanitarian Innovation in Responses to Displacement
Transcript — July 26, 2022
Humanitarian Innovation in Action
Transcript — July 25, 2022
Panel 1: Transformation Through Humanitarian Innovation and Private Sector Engagement
Transcript — July 25, 2022
Panel 2: Elevating Women’s Leadership in Humanitarian Response
Transcript — July 25, 2022
Humanitarian Innovation in Action
Event — July 19, 2022
Humanitarian Innovation in Action: Keynote and Closing Remarks
Transcript — July 19, 2022
Report Launch: Localizing Humanitarian Action in Africa
Event — June 15, 2022
Concurrent Crises in the Horn of Africa
Report by Jacob Kurtzer Sierra Ballard and Hareem Fatima Abdullah — June 7, 2022
Sustaining Yemen: Ensuring Humanitarian Aid Amid Shifting Conflict Dynamics
Event — May 24, 2022