Position paper

Recommendations for Managing the Impacts of the US Funding Freeze on Interagency Coordination

Published 18. Feb 2025|Updated 04. Dec 2025

In this extremely difficult funding environment, it is clear that the interagency coordination system will have to undergo a major contraction – far above and beyond the “efficiencies” and “prioritization” conversations that were already underway prior to the US Executive Order.

The question is what this contraction looks like: do we consolidate the remaining resources in a smaller number of countries, shutting down the coordinated humanitarian response in others? Or do we maintain some coordination footprint across all (or the majority) of current operational contexts, but with a far lighter footprint? What would either of these options look like?

NRC welcomes the fact that these issues have started to be discussed in the EDG and will be tabled at the IASC Principals meeting on 19 February. To help inform these conversations, NRC would like to offer some suggestions on a way forward.

NRC---Recs-for-Coordination-Gaps-Post-Freeze.pdf

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