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Feb 2024
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Charting the course: Navigating 2024's h...

THE NEW HUMANITARIAN
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Crises are mounting, and their impacts are overlapping and rippling across the globe. Emergency response has grown more complicated, and more costly. What's the way forward?

Each year, The New Humanitarian publishes our list of trends driving humanitarian needs and shaping crisis response. From military sieges and water scarcity to 'deterrence' migration policies and governments' refusal to deal with 'pariah' states, we unpack some of the key factors that will see an estimated 300 million people need emergency aid this year.

On 31 January, we brought together a range of voices from across the humanitarian sector to discuss what's driving crises, and the next steps in addressing them. This is a recording of that discussion. 

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