It highlights how humanitarian and development financing must be strategically targeted, sequenced, and aligned to meet urgent, severe needs and reduce them over time. It also argues that without a major shift toward investing in resilience, prevention, and local systems and solutions – particularly in fragile and conflict-affected contexts – humanitarian aid will remain overstretched and unable to keep pace with rising needs.
The paper sets out the Norwegian Refugee Council's (NRC) position on how humanitarian funds should be used, where development and other financing must step in, and what changes are required across humanitarian and development aid financing to ensure that people in crisis can access essential services, exercise their rights, and ultimately move towards self-reliance and solutions.
