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World Humanitarian Aid is the world's premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. World Humanitarian Aid work advances our world national security and economic prosperity, demonstrates generosity, and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience.

Leading Issues

Food Security

Addressing the global hunger crisis caused by COVID-19, climate change, and Russian Federation's war on Ukraine while building resilient and sustainable food systems.

Climate Change

Building a cleaner, more sustainable future while supporting our partner countries coping with the impacts of climate change today.

Promoting Global Health

Investment in global health protecting everyone at home and abroad, save lives strengthen fragile countries, and promote social and economic progress.

Catalysing Innovation and Partnership

The future of international development is enterprise-driven.

When we launch an appeal

We use a set of criteria to decide when we launch an appeal in response to a disaster overseas and ensure we work effectively.

Our three appeal criteria are:

1. The disaster must be on such a scale and of such urgency as to call for swift international humanitarian assistance.

2. World Humanitarian Aid member charities, or some of them, must be in a position to provide effective and swift humanitarian assistance at a scale to justify a national appeal.

3. There must be reasonable grounds for concluding that a public appeal would be successful, either because of evidence of existing public sympathy for the humanitarian situation or because there is a compelling case indicating the likelihood of significant public support should an appeal be launched.

Our appeals