Casa Árabe and the Institute for Studies on Conflicts and Humanitarian Action are organizing tomorrow, Tuesday at 7 pm, the round table Humanitarian financing in crisis: how does it impact the Arab countries? Free entry until capacity is full. The meeting will be broadcast live on YouTube and will be spoken in Spanish.
Funding for humanitarian aid is facing an unprecedented crisis. Funding cuts by key actors such as the US and other European countries, as well as the gradual dismantling of USAID, have had a significant impact on the global humanitarian architecture. The decline in US support has weakened critical assistance programs in highly vulnerable regions, including crises such as those in Gaza, Sudan, Yemen or Syria, among others.
This round table will discuss the implications of USAID’s collapse on humanitarian aid funding, the challenges faced by organizations in the field and strategies to diversify funding sources. The role of new actors, such as the Gulf countries and the private sector, in the sustainability of humanitarian response in the region will be discussed.
Jesus Rogado, Deputy Director of Humanitarian Contexts and Humanitarian Diplomacy of the Office for Humanitarian Action (OAHD) of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID); Raquel González, coordinator and responsible for institutional relations of Médicos sin Fronteras; Patricia Rodríguez, deputy director of the “Planeta Futuro” section of El País; and Francisco Rey, Founding member and co-director of the Institute for Conflict and Humanitarian Action Studies (IECAH). Presented by Miguel Moro Aguilar, general manager of Casa Árabe.
