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When the Lights Go Out: America’s Retreat from Global Humanitarian Aid
When the Lights Go Out: America’s Retreat from Global Humanitarian Aid
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31st Aug, 2025
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The world's first volcano catastrophe bond, sponsored by the Danish Red Cross, was launched in March 2021. The bond uses a paramteric trigger to offer up to $3 million from investors to provide humanitarian support following an erruption.
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Good Practices Playbook on Organizational Readiness and Enabling Private Capital for Innovative Financing in Humanitarian Contexts (2020)
Rather than report on the insufficient funding for humanitarian and development needs, this playbook, written by BCG, provides practical advice on how to change organizational processes, systems and capabilities
30th Apr, 2020
Takeaways from our Roundtable on Innovation in Humanitarian Financing
The rise of COVID-19 has further exposed the fragility of the current humanitarian system. Simply put, traditional funding alone is not sufficient to address the number and scale of prolonged emergencies that the world is facing.
21st May, 2020
Global Humanitarian Overview 2021
The Global Humanitarian Overview is published annually by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
1st Dec, 2020
