Will Worley
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Policy reporter/editor @newhumanitarian. Was covering climate, UK aid cuts at @devex.
Joined March 2012
Pressure is growing on the Boston Consulting Group for their role supporting Israeli war aims in Gaza. But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ... ... enter the United Nations and INGOs. https://t.co/iWP1JRC9sk
thenewhumanitarian.org
While quick to condemn the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, many groups are unwilling to distance themselves entirely from BCG.
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@UNReliefChief @UNOCHA OCHA also set to reduce the countries it focuses on from 28 to 20 to "preserve areas of greatest crisis" Fletcher says its key to "do no harm" in the exits
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Just as @UNReliefChief Tom Fletcher about to go to the audience Qs [a harder section] @UNOCHA end livestream. Hardly in keeping with "showing not telling" how the organisation is changing its work. Main takeaway from session: It seems 200m cld soon lose aid bc of cuts
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You've never seen humanitarian storytelling like this ... The LEBANON DISPLACEMENT DIARIES explores what it's like to be uprooted by violence, and the effects that linger long after the bombs stop falling ... https://t.co/UxQtZEKD0R
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Six weeks since a devastating earthquake Millions in need A purported ceasefire continually violated From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar ? https://t.co/zsnVfklm6a
thenewhumanitarian.org
Six weeks after a major new disaster, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural response challenges.
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I remember a time when the Labour Party used to use my reporting on the Boris aid cuts to criticise the government https://t.co/gFnMovdWuS
ft.com
Development reductions include possible axing of support for education and gender programmes
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After years of green advocacy, NGOs are now scrubbing climate change from their websites https://t.co/S5J56NeX8g Great piece by @illied
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⚡️BREAKING NEWS ⚡️: The Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage has an official website. 👏 🔗Find it here: https://t.co/RSbH4oQOMq
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Today's spring statement quietly revealed that the vast majority of the aid cut the PM announced for 2027 will actually happen in 2026. In fact, 2026/27 will see a 27% cut. That is steeper than the Boris Johnson aid cut in 2021. A short thread on the figures:
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Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs. But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism: https://t.co/p5iVR1RCbM
thenewhumanitarian.org
It’s one thing being forced to cut aid programmes, it’s quite another not knowing where help is most urgently needed in the first place.
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Reminds me of some criticisms I've heard recently of policies in the aid world too - basically saying intersectional type approaches are often counter productive. The aid budget crisis means "focus" (touted here as cure) could be forced alot sooner than for British state tho...
Everythingism. The belief that every policy is a means for promoting every other policy, all at the same time. Everythingism it’s why nothing works. Defeating Everythingism is the only way we can start to fix everything. This essay explains how.
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"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform." Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset' https://t.co/z048wSvUXt
thenewhumanitarian.org
The problem isn’t a “humanitarian reset” but who is pushing the button. The leadership needed to revamp the system must come from elsewhere.
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The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next https://t.co/u6OYPF6SXA
thenewhumanitarian.org
The state of play in the climate-conflict policy space following COP29 and heading into 2025.
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Our Editorial in @newhumanitarian: We say to aid agencies, history will judge your failure to call out israel war crimes as complicity. Speak Out! refuse to be instrumentalised. https://t.co/3BR6xLI6ju
thenewhumanitarian.org
You don’t have to wait for the charge of genocide to be legally established to condemn Israel’s generational war crimes in Gaza.
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UN Emergency Relief Chief courting Elon 👀
@elonmusk Yes, US is top donor of vital humanitarian aid. I would love to show you why and how this saves lives, and our work to make the humanitarian effort more efficient, innovative and high impact.
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2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund... It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a climate disaster. But there's a big $-shaped caveat... My latest: https://t.co/BKLUM2T6QE
thenewhumanitarian.org
2025 could see funds disbursed for the first time, but how will it work, who will benefit, and why is there so little money in its coffers?
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Huge investigation from @newhumanitarian colleagues It's about a series of killings of Palestinians who volunteered to help UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths https://t.co/qvhKFn62Zz
thenewhumanitarian.org
Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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“If you can’t see it for the circus it is, you’re part of the problem.” From COPtimist to sceptic, @willrworley reflects on the dysfunction that was #COP29 – and tries to scrub away the sense of “being somewhat unclean for having participated” at all.
thenewhumanitarian.org
A gathering overshadowed by Trump’s re-election ended in a disappointing deal that underscores the growing headwinds the UN process faces.
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