Full text: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/01/31/trump-stop-work-order...
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Shock and hurt, then confusion and chaos – frontline aid groups are scrambling as US funding freezes cascade to the ground in emergencies across the globe.
From Syria to parched Somalia, from Ukraine to Myanmar’s borderlands, local NGOs and aid organisations reliant on suddenly frozen US donor funding are suspending programmes or stalling them – hitting communities facing dire hunger or trapped between warring parties.
Local aid leaders describe days of chaos trying to navigate US President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order to freeze aid, vague emergency waivers that may exempt some of it, and often contradictory instructions from government counterparts.
“This really tells all of us how powerful one man can be, just waking up one morning, giving this executive order.”
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COMMENT (NPW): What is the impact of recent political events (including the freeze on USAID funding) on your work to provide humanitarian aid, health services and reliable healthcare information/education?
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org