Will Worley
@willrworley.bsky.social
Policy reporter & editor at The New Humanitarian.
Previously covered climate, UK aid cuts at Devex.
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Email: william@thenewhumanitarian.org
Previously covered climate, UK aid cuts at Devex.
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Email: william@thenewhumanitarian.org
Pressure is growing on the Boston Consulting Group for their role supporting Israeli war aims in Gaza.
But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ...
... enter the United Nations and INGOs.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ...
... enter the United Nations and INGOs.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Big Aid sticks with Boston Consulting Group despite Gaza scandal
While quick to condemn the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, many groups are unwilling to distance themselves entirely from BCG.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Pressure is growing on the Boston Consulting Group for their role supporting Israeli war aims in Gaza.
But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ...
... enter the United Nations and INGOs.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
But there's one group of organisations that doesn't seem to have fully made up its mind about BCG ...
... enter the United Nations and INGOs.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
-Six+ weeks since a devastating earthquake
-Millions in need
-A purported ceasefire continually violated
From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
-Millions in need
-A purported ceasefire continually violated
From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Myanmar in-depth: Slow earthquake response underlines need to overhaul long-flawed international aid efforts
Six weeks after a major new disaster, calls are growing to find new ways to address a host of access, funding, and structural response challenges.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
-Six+ weeks since a devastating earthquake
-Millions in need
-A purported ceasefire continually violated
From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
-Millions in need
-A purported ceasefire continually violated
From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
I remember a time when the Labour Party used to use my reporting on the Boris aid cuts to criticise the government
www.ft.com/content/efbc...
www.ft.com/content/efbc...
UK is not ‘a charity’, aid minister will tell MPs as she considers cuts
Development reductions include possible axing of support for education and gender programmes
www.ft.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I remember a time when the Labour Party used to use my reporting on the Boris aid cuts to criticise the government
www.ft.com/content/efbc...
www.ft.com/content/efbc...
After years of green advocacy, NGOs are now scrubbing climate change from their websites
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04...
Great piece by my colleague, Irwin Loy.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04...
Great piece by my colleague, Irwin Loy.
April 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
After years of green advocacy, NGOs are now scrubbing climate change from their websites
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04...
Great piece by my colleague, Irwin Loy.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04...
Great piece by my colleague, Irwin Loy.
Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs.
But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Humanitarian data drought: The deeper damage wrought by US aid cuts
It’s one thing being forced to cut aid programmes, it’s quite another not knowing where help is most urgently needed in the first place.
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March 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs.
But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform."
Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset'
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset'
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Reforming humanitarianism can’t be left to today’s decision-makers
The problem isn’t a “humanitarian reset” but who is pushing the button. The leadership needed to revamp the system must come from elsewhere.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform."
Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset'
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset'
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte @rkyte365 (+ COP30 CEO Ana Toni) both tell #CHevents there are "no conversations about how to pause the [global energy] transition"
When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise... keep calm and carry on"
When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise... keep calm and carry on"
March 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte @rkyte365 (+ COP30 CEO Ana Toni) both tell #CHevents there are "no conversations about how to pause the [global energy] transition"
When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise... keep calm and carry on"
When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise... keep calm and carry on"
The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians
At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
For humanitarians, climate and conflict are becoming harder to separate
The state of play in the climate-conflict policy space following COP29 and heading into 2025.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:23 PM
The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians
At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund...
It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a
climate disaster.
But there's a big $-shaped caveat...
My latest:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a
climate disaster.
But there's a big $-shaped caveat...
My latest:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
The loss and damage fund should open for business in 2025. Will it be fit for purpose?
2025 could see funds disbursed for the first time, but how will it work, who will benefit, and why is there so little money in its coffers?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund...
It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a
climate disaster.
But there's a big $-shaped caveat...
My latest:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a
climate disaster.
But there's a big $-shaped caveat...
My latest:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Huge investigation from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social colleagues
It's about the killings of Palestinians who helped UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
It's about the killings of Palestinians who helped UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza
Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Huge investigation from @newhumanitarian.bsky.social colleagues
It's about the killings of Palestinians who helped UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
It's about the killings of Palestinians who helped UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
I did not leave COP29 in Baku feeling optimistic.
Quite the opposite in fact.
Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Quite the opposite in fact.
Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Reporter’s diary: How Baku turned me from a COP optimist into a COP sceptic
A gathering overshadowed by Trump’s re-election ended in a disappointing deal that underscores the growing headwinds the UN process faces.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 26, 2024 at 12:44 PM
I did not leave COP29 in Baku feeling optimistic.
Quite the opposite in fact.
Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Quite the opposite in fact.
Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Back from Baku
It felt like untangling spaghetti trying to make sense of the emerging web of links between climate and humanitarian policy at COP29.
But I think I got there in the end.
Here's my analysis:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
It felt like untangling spaghetti trying to make sense of the emerging web of links between climate and humanitarian policy at COP29.
But I think I got there in the end.
Here's my analysis:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
At a pivotal COP in Baku, humanitarians try to define their climate role
Finance, adaptation, loss and damage: Humanitarians are trying to carve out a role within the climate movement. But there’s a bumpy road ahead.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Back from Baku
It felt like untangling spaghetti trying to make sense of the emerging web of links between climate and humanitarian policy at COP29.
But I think I got there in the end.
Here's my analysis:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
It felt like untangling spaghetti trying to make sense of the emerging web of links between climate and humanitarian policy at COP29.
But I think I got there in the end.
Here's my analysis:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...