Humanitarian Action’s Changing Landscape

In 2025, the U.S. saw federal disaster and humanitarian budgets tighten and program management shift ownership. Less money at the federal level, such as for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), inevitably changes how the work gets done. Instead of assuming a large, centralized surge for every emergency, more responsibility is moving to states, counties, cities and the local organizations that know their communities best. That redistribution certainly doesn’t reduce the need for...