In 2025, global humanitarian aid reached a breaking point as major funding cuts forced the UN-led system to scale back who it could help and how. Ground Truth Solutions and its partners spoke to communities in 12 countries in crisis in 2025 to understand their perspectives.
What are they telling us about the impacts of aid cuts? How aligned are the choices the UN system has made about where and who to prioritise with the priorities of communities themselves? How can aid organisations better support communities at this moment of global rupture?
