With humanitarian finance under strain, it’s crucial to rethink liquidity. A new piece from the International Financing Review by Julian Lewis underscores a growing crisis: traditional aid flows are shrinking, leaving humanitarian actors struggling to meet escalating needs. The liquidity challenge is real but so is the opportunity to innovate.

Humanitarian organisations are looking to sustainable finance and the broader capital markets to mitigate the effects of a looming liquidity crisis as the impact of the United States Agency for International Development funding freeze continues to ripple through the sector.

The Humanitarian Finance Forum’s Simon Meldrum explains how the insurance industry can help to tackle the humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

Donors are lagging as wars and climate change push global aid needs to record highs, with vulnerable groups hit by the cash crisis.