What’s shaping aid policy in 2026: @irwinloy.bsky.social and @willrworley.bsky.social on the trends driving change and disruption in the coming months ➡️

Pressure is growing on the Boston Consulting Group for their role supporting Israeli war aims in Gaza. But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ... ... enter the United Nations and INGOs. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

-Six+ weeks since a devastating earthquake -Millions in need -A purported ceasefire continually violated From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

I remember a time when the Labour Party used to use my reporting on the Boris aid cuts to criticise the government www.ft.com/content/efbc...

After years of green advocacy, NGOs are now scrubbing climate change from their websites www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04... Great piece by my colleague, Irwin Loy.

Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs. But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform." Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset' www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte @rkyte365 (+ COP30 CEO Ana Toni) both tell #CHevents there are "no conversations about how to pause the [global energy] transition" When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise... keep calm and carry on"

The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund... It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a climate disaster. But there's a big $-shaped caveat... My latest: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

Huge investigation from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social colleagues It's about the killings of Palestinians who helped UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

I did not leave COP29 in Baku feeling optimistic. Quite the opposite in fact. Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

Back from Baku It felt like untangling spaghetti trying to make sense of the emerging web of links between climate and humanitarian policy at COP29. But I think I got there in the end. Here's my analysis: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...