Policy Nexus
The INGO Reckoning: A Post-Trump Adaptation. Save Lives or Shape Out
Humanitarian actor strategy at the convergence of conflict, climate and compounding crisis
Abstract
A critical policy review of humanitarian actor strategies at the convergence of conflict, climate and compounding crisis. Its position statement is blunt: the international humanitarian system is at a reckoning that is not merely a funding crisis, and not merely a political rupture, but a structural failure.
Summary of the report
The review is written for INGO leadership teams deciding what their organisation is actually for in the next funding era.
It sets out the adaptation choices in front of the sector and the consequences of deferring them, and treats localisation and aid finance as structural questions rather than programming preferences.