Global Findings

ICVA Sources

• 06 March ICVA Report – Lives on the Line: The Human Impact of US Foreign Aid Shifts

• The Real Impact of the US Funding Suspension on Humanitarian Aid – ICVA Survey Findings
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• Preliminary Findings from ICVA Survey on impact on humanitarian aid, local partners and NGOs.

Other Sources

• OCHA – US funding freeze global survey | Humanitarian Action
• 204 local and national humanitarian NGOs reporting program reductions. This is 79% of all survey respondents from 36 countries.
• 25 Feb Global South perspectives on US development assistance changes and future directions
• Global Aid Freeze tracker
• 11 Feb – Which Countries Are Most Exposed to US Aid Cuts; And What Other Providers Can Do | Center For Global Development
• Taking stock of the U.S. aid freeze
• USAID: The Benefits and Upcoming Losses in Numbers
• USAIDStopWork Tracker on job losses in America and overseas
• Accountability Lab Rapid Analysis of Initial Impacts on Organisations Globally
• A Critical Analysis of the 2025 Funding Freeze and its Consequences Research Report by Market Impact

Country Level Snapshots

• 01 Apr – Implications of the US foreign aid cuts on the humanitarian response in Afghanistan
• 31 Mar- The Impact of the US Funding Freeze on Ukraine
• 26 Mar –USAID cuts new estimates at country level
• 21 Mar- implications of the US funding freeze and cuts on humanitarian response and health needs on Myanmar
• Somalia Report on Impact USG Executive Order
• 4 Mar – Bangladesh – Impact of USAID Funding Pause on Humanitarian Response and DRR
• 3 Mar – Ethiopia – ACAPS
• 4 Mar – US Fund Termination in NE Syria
• Pakistan
• Poland – US Funding freeze Impact Survey Analysis
• Niger – Enquete d’impact suspension financements US 
• Ukraine Stopwork impact data English
• Jordan JIF Update
• Afghanistan – ACAPS US suspension impact
• Ethiopia – Impact of US Funding Suspension
• What will US aid cuts mean for the Pacific? – Devpolicy Blog

Thematic Impacts

• 10 March – Impact on humanitarian data & decision making
• Surge in Negative Discourse About Aid on Social Media Since the US Funding Freeze
• 25 Feb Humanitarian space: Serbian authorities raid critical CSOs, cite Trump administration’s statements on USAID
• 24 Feb – Education: EiE: Funding cuts threaten education in crisis contexts, with nearly one quarter of a billion school-aged children needing support 
• HIV: officials estimate that by 2029, there could be 8.7 million people newly infected with HIV, 6.3 million Aids-related deaths and an additional 3.4 million children made orphans.
• Durable solutions for displaced populations
• Family Planning Impact | Guttmacher Institute – 8,340 women will die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
• Impact on People with Disabilities
• Plan Impact on Girls: Now is the time to stand with girls in all their diversity

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News reports US Foreign Aid

• 8 Apr Impact of the Trump Administrations actions for IPPF
• 8 Apr Flash Update: USAID Humanitarian Assistance Program cuts on/around April 4th
• 24 Mar Trump aides circulate plan for complete revamp of foreign aid programs – POLITICO
• 18 Mar Judge rules against Musk and DOGE – as it happened | Trump administration | The Guardian
• 16 Mar Exclusive: Inside the closed-door meeting on USAID’s future | Devex
• 12 Mar Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
• 11 Mar – USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows | Trump administration | The Guardian
• 11 Mar Judge orders Trump admin to pay USAID bills – again | Devex
• 6 Mar US judge orders Trump admin to pay portion of $2B in foreign aid by Monday
• 6 Mar Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 – The New York Times
• 6 Mar – Hundreds of US diplomats join letter to Rubio to protest dismantling of USAID
• 5 Mar US supreme court rules that Trump cannot withhold payment to foreign aid groups – The Irish Times
• 3 Mar- USAID reinstates contracts for Georgia company that helps feed malnourished kids after Elon Musk responds to CNN reporting
• 2 Mar – Senior USAID official ousted after detailing problems providing life-saving aid
• 27 Feb – Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
• 25 Feb – Judge gives Trump administration Wednesday night deadline to pay foreign aid funds | Reuters
• 24 Feb – USAID Staff Start Receiving Termination Letters
• 23 Feb – USAID to cut 1,600 staff, place nearly all direct hires on leave

Official US Government Information

• U.S. Statement at UNHCR Standing Committee – U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Geneva
• 26 Feb – America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World – United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
• U.S. National Statement at the WFP Executive Board First Regular Session, February 18, 2025
• List of Terminated USAID Contracts and Grants
• 18 Feb – U.S. NATIONAL STATEMENT AT THE WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD FIRST REGULAR SESSION
• OIG Report – Oversight of USAID-Funded Humanitarian Assistance Programming Impacted by Staffing Reductions and Pause on Foreign Assistance
• Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies – The White House
• Whole-of-Government Approach – United States Department of State
• US Department of State – Emergency Humanitarian Assistance Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause
• Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid
• The US Secretary of State latest releases.

What is Project 2025

• Policy aims of Project 2025- Agency for International Development
• What is Project 2025? Wish list for Trump second term, explained

Unofficial US Government info

• 27 Mar – USAID Active Programs List
• Approximately 230 USAID contracts and grants worth $7.5 billion were terminated this week List of Terminated USAID Contracts and Grants
• List of USAID Projects Terminated 
• As the USAID website is currently down, Kirsten Blandford has shared this dropbox folder with USAID regulations and award provisions

Executive Orders impacting aid, displaced people, DEIA and protection: 

• 20 January: Securing Our Borders
• 20 January: Realigning the US Refugee Admissions Programme
• 20 January: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programmes and Preferencing.
• 29 January: Expanding Migrant Operations Centre at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Full Capacity
• 4 February: Withdrawing the US From and Ending Funding to Certain UN Organisations and Reviewing US Support to All International Organisations

Analysis of US Funding

• 7 Mar The Future of US Foreign Aid – Brookings Institute
• The Future of US Foreign Assistance: How Low Can They Go? | Center For Global Development
• 6 Mar – A Brief Look at President Trump’s List of “Appalling” Aid Projects | Center For Global Development

Analysis of Executive Orders

• General FAQs on Executive Actions Impacting Nonprofits
• What Trump’s executive orders mean for Africa and the Global South (Carnegie)
• An overview of Project 2025 & Executive Orders: An all-out assault on U.S. Development Assistance  (Aries Consult Ltd)
• The Status of President Trump’s Pause of Foreign Aid and Implications for PEPFAR and other Global Health Programs

Other Donor Funding

Analysis

• On Development, Humanitarian Assistance, and Resilience | Wilson Center
• 4 Mar – Humanitarian aid’s extreme donor dependency problem in five charts
• 3 Mar – The Pulse Check x US Aid Disruptions – How should Australia respond?

UK

• 28 Feb – How much does the UK spend on overseas aid – and where does the money go?
• 28 Feb – Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
• 27 Feb – Keir Starmer cuts aid to fund increase in defence spending

Other Agencies

• UN releases $110 million to shore up life-saving assistance in neglected humanitarian crisis
• 27 Feb – MacArthur Foundation to Increase Giving for Two Years in Response to ‘Crisis’

Other Governments & Regional Blocks

• 27 Mar – Europe is cutting development spending & it’s not because of Trump
• 10 Mar Is Germany the next leader in ODA, and how will it spend its money?
• 20 Feb – Dutch government announces funding cuts
• 18 Feb – Norway Signs Multi-Million Aid Agreements for Humanitarian Assistance
• 5 Feb – France’s proposed budget cuts set to slash overseas development aid
• 3 Jan – European Union cuts – 2 billion
• Belgium announced a cut of 25% over the next 5 years.
• Finland announced cuts to its aid budget by a quarter between 2024 and 2027
• Switzerland parliament reduces aid by USD 282 million.
• Sweden lowers its aid commitment

Guidance & Supports available:

• For CSOs – Toolkit for tomorrow: Anticipating civil society futures by International Civil Society Centre
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• Webinar Series: Coming together to create possibilities for change in turbulent times. 
• A Silver Linings Playbook for the Aid Sector in 2025
• Humentum: Navigating the USG Funding Pause for Foreign Assistance Programs: Guidance Document
• Avallon Consulting: MANAGING STOP WORK ORDERS AND SUSPENSION UNDER USG CONTRACTS AND GRANTS
• Solidarity Action Network: Toolkit For Tomorrow

The Future of Aid

• What crisis affected communities need from a humanitarian reset Ground Truth Solutions
• The Humanitarian Reset – Letter by ERC Tom Fletcher to IASC Principles
• Webinar series: Future of Aid 2040 — IARAN
• 19 Mar – Reforming humanitarianism can’t be left to today’s decision-makers
• 6 Mar – Transforming the humanitarian system, not destroying it – The Lancet
• The Humanitarian Reckoning – Surviving the Aid Freeze

Funding Opportunities

• Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative (RSRI) | Bridge Funds & Funding Resources
• Global Giving
• List of Restricted Donors | Humentum
• Five rapid response funds for organisations affected by the USAID freeze
• Athena Infonomics – Database of funding opportunities
• The GSMA Innovation Fund for Impactful AI
• NEAR have launched a bridge funding window for current NEAR members.
• Foreign Aid Bridge Fund

• NEID Global 2025 Resource List: Possible Funding Opportunities
• List of potential donors

NGO Security Resources for the Suspension

• Global Interagency Security Forum (GISF) has a helpful guide on Security Risk Management (SRM) During Suspension Periods: A Guide for NGOs (Updated for February

Information Integrity

A State-by-State Look at Foreign Information Manipulation in the United States

Legal Support:

Do you or your partners have legal questions that are immigration or refugee related, either for inside the US, or outside? If so, please let us know and we will connect you with PILnet and their Pledge Core Group, who are mapping legal needs of organisations against a mapping of law firms interested in giving pro-bono support.

Accountability to Affected People

• Closing programs whilst continuing to keep people safe: what to consider | Bond
• Collective messaging on suspensions and stoppages of humanitarian assistance: Information for affected people – ICVA & CHS Alliance
  • Mensaje colectivo sobre la suspensión y el cese de la ayuda humanitaria – ICVA
  • معلومات للأشخاص المتضررين: رسائل جماعية بشأن تعليق ووقف المساعدات الإنسانية
  • Messages collectifs sur les suspensions et arrêts de l’aide humanitaire : Informations pour la population touchée
• Collective messages on the suspension of humanitarian assistance – information for communities and affected people. | OCHA

Mental Health & Psychological First Aid Resources

• Managing Anxiety when Political Events Feel Threatening
• Red Cross – Free Training
• Guides & Resources 

Communication Supports

• How to show up when your work is under attack.
• What the data says about US foreign aid | Pew Research Center

Communications Assets

• What has aid ever done for anyone?
• A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism (Invention, innovation & economy)

Checklist for data management

The Data Responsibility Working Group has put together a short checklist on how to manage data if your project must shut down unexpectedly Data Responsibility in Rapid Scale Down or Closure of Operations

Career Support

• The Humanitarian Coaching Network is connecting NGOs to volunteer professional coaches.
• Devex Career Hub: Survival tips for international consultants
• USAID to Corporate: Roadmap

In the news

• 18 Mar These Sudanese Refugees Fled War. Now, Crucial U.S. Aid Is Running Out. – The New York Times (video)
• 17 Mar Trump Administration cuts leave foreign aid in limbo
• 17 Mar Grim Global Impact of US Funds Withdrawal; WHO Mulls ‘Terrible Choices’
• 14 Mar – International Geneva in crisis: the fallout from US aid cuts in numbers
• 11 Mar Humanitarian system at breaking point as funding cuts force life-or-death choices
• 10 Mar Save the Children official says Trump’s ‘disorderly’ aid cuts are devastating its work | PBS News
• 10 Mar ‘People will suffer’ – Donald Trump’s aid cuts means Irish help is more vital than ever in Guatemala, says Trócaire
• 6 Mar – Pause in US foreign aid has UN in panic over future funding cuts | Fox News
• 5 Mar – Exclusive: UN plans to halve rations to Rohingya refugees without urgent funding
• America cuts $1.1 billion for Myanmar, abandoning democracy and rights – Human Rights Myanmar
• 24 Feb – Faith Based Organisations Express Deep Concern over U.S. AID Freeze
• 21 Feb – International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze
• 20 Feb – The Right to Seek Asylum is Non-Existent at the US-Mexico Border | Amnesty International
• 20 Feb Politics: Trump’s new policies will impact refugees and sustainability initiatives in Malaysia
• 20 Feb – Philanthropists Urged to ‘Step Up’ as Emergency Funds Launch to Plug USAID Freeze
• 20 Feb –How will Trump and Musk’s freeze on USAid affect millions around the world?
• 19 Feb The New Humanitarian | IRC cutting thousands of staff after US aid freeze
• 18 Feb Bill Gates warns of millions of deaths if Trump and Musk don’t reinstate axed foreign aid funding
• 18 Feb Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare is Life-Changing: We Must Act Now to Protect Women and Girls
• 17 Feb Farmers feeling weight of Trump policies with shutdown of aid
• 17 Feb The mess inside Rubio’s ‘lifesaving’ waivers
• 17 Feb – The New Humanitarian | US aid freezes escalate Syria’s crisis
• Devex Newswire: The travails and triumphs in the battle for US aid
• 14 Feb – Geneva plans to pay NGO wages after US foreign aid
• 14 Feb – Judge orders Trump administration to unfreeze existing aid programs | Devex
• 14 Feb – Syria’s Humanitarian Response Decimated by US Aid Cuts
• 13 Feb – What happened next at USAID
• 13 Feb – Judge orders Trump administration to restore funds for foreign aid programs – POLITICO
• 12 Feb UNHCR forced to cut U.S.-related programs for refugees and migrants
• 12 Feb The Geneva government wants to take emergency measures for its international sector
• 12 Feb – The New Humanitarian | Inklings policy newsletter: Thoughts on aid dependency amid Trump chaos
• 11 Feb – USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency
• 11 Feb The New Humanitarian | Danish Refugee Council announces “emergency termination” of staff
• Norwegian People’s Aid lays off half its staff due to Trump Policy
• Action Against Hunger’s CEO Charles Owubah speaks on CNN’s One World
• The New Humanitarian | How local humanitarian groups are navigating US aid freeze havoc
• Trump’s aid freeze leaves UN food agency scrambling, with millions at risk – POLITICO
• UN food agency WFP received dozens of US stop work orders despite emergency waiver | Reuters
• Panicked USAID Workers Grapple with Defunding of Humanitarian Efforts: ‘People Will Starve, Babies Will Die’ 
• 7 Feb – USAID’s workforce to be slashed to just 294 staff | Devex
• 5 Feb – Former USAID administrator describes global impact of agency’s ‘destruction’ on PBS News
• 5 Feb – Samantha Power on the Late show
• 5 Feb – The New Humanitarian | Inklings | What story will humanitarians tell in a Trump world?
• 3 Feb – Scoop: UN sketches global map of mayhem from US aid freeze
• 3 Feb – Devex: USAID closes headquarters Monday amid Trump transition chaos
• 3 Feb – Axios: Musk says Trump has “agreed” to shut USAID down
• 30 Jan – Is the US sending $50m in condoms to Gaza as Trump claims?
• Reuters: Trump administration explores bring USAID under State Department 
• The New Humanitarian | Trump stop-work orders hit local aid and frontline communities
• FEWS NET goes offline due to USAID Funding Freeze
• The latest insights on the US aid crisis | Devex
• UN aid agencies cut back operations after Trump’s 90-day funding suspension | United Nations | The Guardian
• US issues new waiver for humanitarian aid amid freeze | Reuters
• Myanmar refugees face sudden discharge from Thai hospitals shuttered by US aid freeze | Reuters

Social media posts about the suspension:

• Charlie Brown on Effective Messaging & Engagement: I’ve tried to talk diplomatically about this, and I don’t think it’s working…
• If USAID Were a Nonprofit, It Would Earn a Four-Star
• Trump, Rubio & Human Suffering – Hugo Slim
• US Foreign Aid global impact – Michael Chapman
• USAID Freeze Analysis – Thomas Byrnes
• Submitting waiver requests for program exceptions to USAID – Olga W
• So, what should we do in #globaldev? That’s a fair question. – Farah M
• Time to Advocate! Let’s show #USAID Freeze Impact and “pause the pause” with two data collection efforts for you: – Wayan Vota

Podcasts

• 18 Feb – The Uncertain Future of USAID with Jeremy Konyndyk
• 13 February – Tom Fletcher: What is the impact – HARDtalk – Apple Podcasts

Opinion

• Musk said no one has died since aid was cut. That isn’t true.
• 7 Mar – Military power alone is not enough — international assistance is vital to American security
• 2 Mar – International aid is as vital as defence spending – cutting either undermines British security | Emily Darlington | The Guardian
• 26 Feb – Aid cuts are a ‘punch in the gut’, says UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher | The National
• Why the crisis in global aid is bigger than Trump
• 17 Feb – CIVICUS A Global Retreat from Solidarity
• 8 Feb – Marc DuBois USAID Cuts: The ONE question must be asked
• 6 Feb – Inside USAID as Elon Musk and DOGE Ripped It Apart
• 11 Feb – The end of aid?. What on earth is going on?! Let’s start… | by Lina AbiRafeh | Feb, 2025 | Medium
• 3 Feb – As US actions imperil the lives of millions around the world, Canada should step up.
• Vox Inside Trumps Purge at the agency that saves millions of lives: USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies. 
• 31 Jan NYT How the World is Reeling from Trumps’ Aid Freeze 
• 31 Jan Liberation | Un choc tectonique : le gel de l’aide étrangère par les Etats-Unis de Trump fait dévisser la planète humanitaire
• 23 Jan Guardian – With the knives out on development spending, have we reached ‘peak aid’?

ICVA in the news

• Beyond the Cuts: How the Defunding Affects Feminist and Civil Society Organizations
• 6 Mar – The New Humanitarian | Inklings policy newsletter: Why are NGOs cutting staff faster than the UN?
• 1 Mar – New Age | USAID FUNDING FREEZE: How NGO world is coping
• 24 Feb Situationer: Trump’s aid cuts to hurt pro-democracy projects the most in Pakistan – Newspaper – DAWN.COM
• 21 Feb – Aid Freeze Devastates Life Saving Work – The Herald
• 21 Feb – International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze | The Guardian
• 19 Feb – Humanitarian aid worldwide in crisis after Trump’s decision to freeze funding
• 19 Feb – Global Humanitarian Aid Faces Crisis Amid U.S. Funding Freeze
• 19 Feb – Reuters: U.S. aid freeze ‘decimates’ life-saving work globally, survey finds (Also MSN, Straitstimes, BD News)
• 19 Feb – Akum Humanitarian aid worldwide in crisis after Trump’s decision to freeze funding
• 10 Feb – Kenyan Wall Street Looming Job Cuts in NGOs after Trump’s Aid Suspension
• 9 Feb – Trump orders push humanitarians to brink of ‘aid politicisation’, alerts aid chief Jamie Munn – Geneva Solutions
• 2 Feb – New Humanitarian

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