Episode 376: Humanitarian Aid Landscape One Year After the Dismantling of USAID with Nicholas Enrich

Episode 376: Humanitarian Aid Landscape One Year After the Dismantling of USAID with Nicholas Enrich

June 23, 2026 · 36 min

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The episode discusses the impact of the dismantling of USAID on the humanitarian aid landscape one year later.

For more than six decades, USAID sat at the centre of the global humanitarian and development system. A little over a year ago, USAID became one of the first targets of the Trump administration’s DOGE campaign. Today, the hum and development sector is grappling with profound uncertainty at precisely the moment humanitarian needs are growing, especially with the rise in intrastate conflicts. What has the loss of USAID meant in practice? How are communities responding? And what does the future ...

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