Big tech, shrinking funds, weird partnerships, drones and influencers, new models, climate progress, ending well: Humanitarian trends for the year ahead.

While quick to condemn the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, many groups are unwilling to distance themselves entirely from BCG.

Six weeks after a major new disaster, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural response challenges.

Development reductions include possible axing of support for education and gender programmes

It’s one thing being forced to cut aid programmes, it’s quite another not knowing where help is most urgently needed in the first place.

The problem isn’t a “humanitarian reset” but who is pushing the button. The leadership needed to revamp the system must come from elsewhere.

The state of play in the climate-conflict policy space following COP29 and heading into 2025.

2025 could see funds disbursed for the first time, but how will it work, who will benefit, and why is there so little money in its coffers?

Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.

A gathering overshadowed by Trump’s re-election ended in a disappointing deal that underscores the growing headwinds the UN process faces.

Finance, adaptation, loss and damage: Humanitarians are trying to carve out a role within the climate movement. But there’s a bumpy road ahead.