Funding Disruptions Are a Systemic Failure – Philanthropy Must Do What’s Right and Support Local Leadership

Funding Disruptions Are a Systemic Failure – Philanthropy Must Do What’s Right and Support Local Leadership

The slashing of US aid funding by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and cuts or planned cuts in international support by several European states, threaten to cut off the oxygen supply to a civil society already in a critical condition. At CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, activists and grassroots groups have shared with us …

The organisation Action contre la Hunger (ACF) measures every day the devastation caused by the US aid freeze decided by the duo Donald Trump-Elon Musk. A 30% increase in its budget – or 120 million euros in 2025 – the NGO is in the process of...