The shared global vision to lift humanity and end poverty has fractured. The fate of a U.S.-sponsored toilet shows the ...

The Trump administration announced the dismantling of one of the world’s largest international development aid agencies. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order hours after his ...

As the United States and other major donors scale back international aid, the development sector finds itself at a critical crossroads. This trend, driven by shifting political priorities and budget ...

LONDON, March 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Donald Trump’s new administration has plunged international development assistance into an existential crisis. Within hours of taking office in January, the ...

In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International ...

Qatar Fund for Development provided over $667m in aid in 2025, supporting healthcare, education, humanitarian and economic ...

Over the past eight decades, the United States’ international emergency food aid program has been a core component of the country’s humanitarian initiatives and national security and foreign policy ...

Local staff and their partners face the greatest challenges from reduced U.S. funding. Australia should focus its efforts here. In January 2025, the United States issued an unprecedented freeze on U.S ...

Organizations described being locked out of systems and unable to access funds. Despite verbal assurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio about allowing lifesaving humanitarian aid to continue, ...

TOPSHOT - Tributes are placed beneath the covered seal of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) at their headquarters in Washington, DC. US President Donald Trump called for USAID to be ...

Nelson Duenas receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Nelson Duenas is a researcher associated to l'Observatoire canadien sur les crises et l'action ...