Humanitarian aid needs are growing faster than a weakened system can meet, while also changing in nature due to increased climate risks and protracted conflicts. A new approach to aid is required, utilizing blended finance, centring communities, and redistributing resources between humanitarian response and development. Augmenting approaches requires changing the questions aid choices seek to ...
The Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) initiative has developed the Framework for Frontier Market Cooperation, which presents a new model of collaboration tailored to the complex realities of today’s development landscape. Designed to move beyond traditional aid-based approaches, the framework brings diverse stakeholders together – governments, development and humanitarian actors ...
Responsible for 60-80% of response costs and essential for life-saving assistance, supply chains are key to humanitarian impact and need to be recognized.
As crises grow more prolonged and frequent, humanitarian aid must shift. A humanitarian reset calls for rethinking how assistance reaches people.
Sudan’s civil society has proven it can mobilize for peace in a militarized context; a humanitarian truce would create greater space for them to operate.
Why we need a humanitarian truce is Sudan | World Economic Forum
It has been 20 years since the Logistics Emergency Team was established to support humanitarian aid efforts across the globe. Here's what you need to know.
Disasters are growing in frequency and complexity and the private sector's role in improving global humanitarian responses is increasingly important.
World Humanitarian Day takes place every 19 August. It recognizes, and aims to raise awareness of, the work of humanitarians around the world. The World Economic Forum is committed to humanitarian principles and brings partners together to promote peace efforts and to increase funding to tackle humanitarian crises.