Statement

110+ NGOs Call on Congress to Appropriate Emergency Resources for Food Insecurity, Humanitarian Action & Global COVID-19 Response

Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McCarthy, Minority Leader McConnell, Chairwoman DeLauro, Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, and…

May 6, 2022
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Statement on the House’s Proposal for Next Phase of Coronavirus Relief Legislation

The international development and humanitarian organizations listed below issued the following statement on the House’s proposal for the next phase…

May 12, 2020
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CBS News: What Rubio told U.S. diplomats about the future of foreign aid, as most programs paused

Tom Hart, the CEO of InterAction, an alliance of 170 NGOs, says many of those groups now face bankruptcy because they cannot access credit or U.S. financing because USAID systems were taken down. About 40% of InterAction's members receive USAID funding. “‘While the policy is in place through Secretary Rubio's order, and even paperwork has been delivered to some of our partner NGOs, they've not been able to get the assistance, the money, to continue operations,’ Hart said. ‘So, we have the policy, we have the paperwork, we just don't have the funding flowing to keep that emergency relief going.’

February 6, 2025
InterAction Quoted

The South Sudan Level 3 designation: from policy to practice

The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has declared that the humanitarian situation in South Sudan warranted classification as a system-wide Level 3 (L3) emergency.

February 1, 2017
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

As world leaders gather in New York for the 79th United Nations General Assembly, and as the threat of a wider regional escalation looms, we renew our demand for an end to the appalling human suffering and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

September 23, 2024
Statement

No Time to Lose as Famine Stalks Millions in Sudan Amid Intense Fighting and Access Denials

Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their…

May 31, 2024
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Escalating conflict is driving record levels of gender-based violence, displacement and hunger in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), threatening to push the country to the brink of catastrophe without urgent international action.

April 30, 2024
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IASC Provides Ten Requirements to Avoid an Even Worse Catastrophe in Gaza

"No amount of humanitarian response will make up for the months of deprivation that families in Gaza have endured. This is our effort to salvage the humanitarian operation so that we can provide, at the very least, the bare essentials: medicine, drinking water, food, and shelter as temperatures plummet."

February 21, 2024
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InterAction Signs Inter-Agency Standing Committee Statement on Central Sahel

The crises gripping the Central Sahel are exacerbating humanitarian and protection needs and threatening to reverse development gains. In 2024,…

January 12, 2024
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Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee

As humanitarian leaders, our position is clear: We will not participate in the establishment of any ”safe zone” in Gaza…

November 16, 2023