The cruel math of aid cuts | Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 Special Edition: Hyper-prioritized humanitarian action in a world on fire | Humanitarian Action

The magnitude, gravity and suddenness of funding cuts in the first quarter of 2025 have forced the humanitarian community to hyper-prioritize its response efforts. This reprioritization—as called for in the Humanitarian Reset and supported by the IASC Emergency Directors through their ‘global prioritization plan’—aims to ensure that humanitarians save as many lives as possible with the resources they have. Starting in March 2025, every country operation and regional response rapidly reviewed their already robustly defined plans and appeals to identify those people in the most urgent need of assistance and the most critical response to be mobilized.