Position paper

Solutions from the start: maintaining humanitarian action on solutions to displacement after the funding crisis

Published 02. Sep 2025|Updated 05. Dec 2025
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The magnitude of the current funding cuts has forced the humanitarian system to make painful decisions about how to prioritize our responses within and across crises.

But while we may have to reduce the breadth of our operations, NRC believes that in the locations where humanitarians do remain present, we can and must work in a manner that is sustainable and lays a foundation for solutions to displacement.

The following note outlines how humanitarians can promote solutions from the start, even in our newly constrained resource environment and “hyper-prioritized” responses.