Logistics Emergency Team: 20 years of coordinating humanitarian aid
Sep 25, 2025 · 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.
Rethinking humanitarian supply chains for the 21st century
Oct 1, 2025 · 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.
New alliances are key as humanitarian needs of children rise
Jan 15, 2026 · New and protracted conflicts, rising hunger, global funding cuts, and collapsing basic services are driving humanitarian needs for children to extreme levels worldwide. Childhoods are …
What is World Humanitarian Day – and why is it important?
Aug 19, 2024 · 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 …
Here's how we can meet the need for global humanitarian aid
Jan 14, 2023 · Support for humanitarian aid and basic needs in fragile countries should be seen as an investment in a global public good — not exclusively as a charitable gesture.
Aid is changing – it’s time to innovate humanitarian finance
Jul 21, 2025 · 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 …
Why humanitarian action is a most cost-effective investment
Jan 17, 2025 · The humanitarian world is navigating an era marked by civil wars, rising numbers of refugees and a surge in complex and protracted crises. We need more commitment from the private …
A new framework for cross-sector cooperation | World Economic Forum
Jul 17, 2025 · 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 …
The 20 humanitarian crises the world cannot ignore in 2023
Dec 14, 2022 · The Emergency Watchlist is more than a warning — it is a guide on how to avert or minimise those humanitarian crises. It says more than 100 million people today are on the run from …
Bridging the gap: how the private sector is streamlining humanitarian ...
May 19, 2025 · The World Food Programme-led Logistics Cluster has been optimizing emergency humanitarian response logistics for over 20 years. Private sector partnerships are needed to help the …