Centre for Humanitarian Action 378d ago

The CHA Conference 2025 will take place on 25 and 26 June 2025 in Berlin Kreuzberg and will be streamed only on day 1. The conference will examine three trends and discuss potential counter-models: The increasing politicisation of humanitarian action, which, according to numerous donor strategies and narratives, should in future explicitly prioritize political donor interests over humanitarian principles and people in greatest need. Secondly, the accompanying significant reduction in humanitarian and development policy budgets and the resulting pressure for radical financial prioritisation, with the latter at the same time lacking transparent, principle-based criteria due to a growing focus on geopolitical and economic objectives. Finally, this process could lead to fundamental power shifts between more financially resilient aid organisations from the Global North and local aid organisations under threat, between interest-driven donor governments and formally value-driven aid organisations, between pragmatic actors and principled organisations that defend values such as inclusion and gender transformation.