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Better aid: principles to reform and transform humanitarian financing

Sixty million people are fleeing their homes, two-thirds within their own countries and the rest crossing borders to seek refuge. While the world has never been more generous in responding, offering $28 billion in 2015, the $15 billion gap between humanitarian needs and available financing has never been so wide. We need better aid to make the greatest impact with scarce resources and overcome the challenges of modern displacement.

ResourceAugust 22, 2016

From sector to system: reform and renewal in humanitarian aid

Press ReleaseApril 27, 2016

Focus on the Frontlines: How the Grand Bargain can deliver on its promise to improve humanitarian aid (Brief)

How the Grand Bargain can deliver on its promise to improve humanitarian aid

ReportJune 2, 2021

Young children outside surround a small garden in a settlement for migrant workers.

Thailand

For more than three decades, refugees from Myanmar have sought safe haven in neighboring Thailand. The International Rescue Committee is aiding more than 100,000 refugees in nine camps along the border.

A Tigrayan boy named Hafton stands smiling with his mother Wahid and his best friend Mherka outside a grass-walled shelter in a refugee camp in eastern Sudan.

Sudan

The IRC is scaling up aid in Sudan where extreme weather events, locust infestations, rising food costs, COVID-19, and other factors are driving increased humanitarian need.

Three women and two children from CAR sit around a fireplace in a camp for displaced people.

Central African Republic

In Central African Republic (CAR), 1 million people have been displaced by ongoing conflict. The International Rescue Committee has assisted CAR throughout its current crisis despite the high risk to aid workers. We provide medical care, water and sanitation services, and protection for vulnerable women and girls.

A mother and her two young children seated outdoors in Yemen

Yemen

Plagued by war, poverty, malnutrition and cholera, Yemen is facing one of the largest humanitarian crises of our time. Now its health system is under the strain of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, many of which are going untested and undetected.

An IRC health worker holds a crying baby, giving him a medical checkup in a village in Central African Republic as his mother looks on smiling.

Better aid

The world’s 82 million displaced people, the highest number ever recorded, require more than “aid as usual.” Their growing and increasingly complex needs mandate a transformation—a creative rethinking—in the global humanitarian response.

Rescue Aid: Join the conversation on reshaping aid delivery

Welcome to Rescue Aid — a conversation blog run by the International Rescue Committee on Medium about reforming humanitarian aid delivery.

ArticleApril 27, 2016

Immigration

The IRC offers high-quality, low-cost immigration legal services and citizenship assistance in 23 cities across the United States. Our comprehensive immigration services are provided by fully qualified IRC staff accredited by the U.S. Department of Justice's Board of Immigration Appeals.

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