INGO Accountability Review: Under Pressure: How INGOs are responding to the aid funding crisis and what it reveals about the fragility of localisation commitments. This review examines how INGOs have been responding to funding challenges, looking at what they are doing (or failing to do) to support their local and national partners. (July 2025)
In the wake of the largest aid funding cuts in recent history, NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response) asks: are international NGOs living up to their commitments to localisation – or retreating into self-preservation?
📉 With the abrupt $60 Billion cut in U.S. foreign aid and declines from other Global North donors, the aid sector is in crisis. Amidst the disruption, the INGOs Accountability Review captures 8 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 and 4 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 that show where INGOs stand – and where they must go.
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✅ Examples of solidarity: flexible funding, asset transfers, joint planning.
⚠️ But also silence, inward focus, and a worrying retreat from public leadership.
This is not just a funding crisis – it's a moment of reckoning. INGOs must ask themselves hard questions about 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱.
➡️ Read the full review: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc4fd249698b02c7f3acfe9/t/6880fd9c521d810929156313/1753283998982/INGO+Policy+Brief-1.pdf