Date & Time

Sep 25, 2025 09:45 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Description

Across the world, communities on the frontlines of displacement, conflict, and inequality are already reshaping how crises are met. They are building collective responses rooted in solidarity and care—even as the international aid system spins in circles around cuts, resets, and reforms, risking collapse.

How can we reimagine the international humanitarian system so that it builds on—rather than undermines—the response communities are already creating? What would it take to align funding and infrastructure? And what is standing in the way?

The New Humanitarian and Refugees International have taken these questions around the globe, producing a series of dispatches from the future that highlight the strategies, values, and visions guiding community-driven responses to crisis—and show what’s possible. J

oin us as we bring these dispatches to the heart of UNGA to grapple with what it will take to remake humanitarianism and what must change for the system to have any future at all.

Introduction

— Tammam Aloudat, CEO, The New Humanitarian

Moderator

— Dr. Hourie Tafech, Director for Refugee Leadership and Partnership, Refugees International

Panelists

— Loreine Dela Cruz, Executive Director, Centre for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Foundation in the Philippines & member of the NEAR Leadership Council

— Hanin Ahmed, External Relations Officer, Sudan Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), and Fellow, Refugees International

— Elizabeth Campbell, Executive Director, ODI Global Washington

— More speakers to be announced