Michelle Nunn, President and CEO of CARE, co-authored an opinion piece together with Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO of Mercy Corps, and Janti Soeripto, President and CEO of Save the Children on Devex on the need to work together as an alliance to provide more cost-effective and relevant solutions to local problems.
A few paragraphs from the oped below:
“Humanitarian organizations are built to respond to crises — wars, earthquakes, floods, famine, and displacement. But today, the humanitarian system is confronting a crisis of another kind: A sharp contraction in global emergency aid at the very moment needs are surging. In 2025, emergency aid from five of the world’s largest donors to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs dropped by nearly 54%, according to an internal analysis of the agency’s data, even as their economies grew by $2.2 trillion in the same year.”
“It’s not enough any more to simply deliver aid more efficiently — we need to help redefine what effective global cooperation looks like and what it can achieve. By bringing together our collective expertise, resources, operational capabilities, and deep relationships with communities across the world, we aim to demonstrate that we can achieve scaled, durable solutions to the humanitarian sector’s most pressing challenges.”
You can read the full oped here.