
Aid funds must go ‘further and faster’ in a ‘ruthless’ age of humanitarian austerity
Reforming humanitarian aid supply chains will help every aid euro go ‘further and faster’, says the EU. But budgets are only likely to keep falling.

Reforming humanitarian aid supply chains will help every aid euro go ‘further and faster’, says the EU. But budgets are only likely to keep falling.

The EU will be ‘strategic’ and likely add more conditions to its development aid funding, EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.

At $44bn [€38bn], more development aid was sent to Ukraine than to the whole of sub-Saharan Africa in 2025, as overall official development assistance slumped by 23 percent.