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We believe that the changing patterns of humanitarian crises, the links between chronic poverty and vulnerability to risk, and the long-term practice of spending the bulk of humanitarian funding in protracted emergencies, are all challenges to humanitarian assistance as currently conceived.

The Global Trends workstream looks at this backdrop of humanitarian assistance. It makes connections between such things as country contexts and humanitarian needs, between government spending and delivery agencies, and between early recovery and disaster-risk reduction. It looks to provide context, the big pictures, making links from humanitarian financing to climate change, poverty, conflict, global crises, politics and aid transparency.

Humanitarian assistance is not just about the money.