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Action Against Hunger is a global humanitarian organization dedicated to ending world hunger.

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Action Against Hunger warns against interest-driven EU external budget

21 Nov 2025
Topic — Public consultation on the post-2027 EU budget for supporting global external action.
Message — The organization calls for a needs-based approach that prioritizes poverty reduction. They urge the EU to safeguard humanitarian funding and maintain development targets. They also demand that private investment does not replace traditional aid.12
Why — This would secure the grant-based funding model central to their humanitarian work.34
Impact — Vulnerable populations in Least Developed Countries risk losing support to geopolitical interests.5
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Meeting with Murielle Laurent (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Oct 2025 · Situation in Sudan

Meeting with Charles Goerens (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Oct 2025 · Meeting with ACF

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2025 · Food Policy

Meeting with Riccardo Rossi (Cabinet of Commissioner Jozef Síkela) and CONCORD Europe and

7 Apr 2025 · Food security

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Mar 2025 · Food Policy, PPPA

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · Aid for food worldwide

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · SANT

Meeting with Murielle Laurent (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Feb 2025 · Travail d'ACF au Tchad, situation dans les camps de réfugiés

Meeting with Murielle Laurent (Member of the European Parliament)

24 Feb 2025 · Visite au Tchad

Meeting with Erik Marquardt (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Jan 2025 · Exchange on food security

Meeting with Murielle Laurent (Member of the European Parliament) and GLOBAL HEALTH ADVOCATES and Coordination SUD

4 Dec 2024 · Evenement Agir pour l'Avenir

Meeting with Hana Jalloul Muro (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair) and Oxfam-en-Belgique / Oxfam-in-België

1 Oct 2024 · Sahel food security

Meeting with Barry Andrews (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

16 Sept 2024 · Development and site visit

Meeting with Kim-Tobias Eling (Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič) and International Rescue Committee Inc and World Vision Brussels & EU Representation ivzw/aisbl

28 May 2024 · Food security crisis in oPt

Meeting with Philip Holzapfel (Cabinet of High Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles) and Save the Children Europe and Norwegian Refugee Council Europe

2 Jun 2023 · Situation of international humanitarian NGOs in IoPt

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

22 Mar 2023 · Afghanistan

Action against Hunger seeks humanitarian exemptions for EU sanctions

30 Jan 2023
Topic — This consultation concerns a directive defining criminal penalties for violating EU sanctions.
Message — Action against Hunger calls for the EU to align its sanctions with UN humanitarian exemptions. They request that providing food, healthcare, and essential aid to people in need be excluded from criminalisation.12
Why — This protection ensures their staff can provide life-saving aid without risking criminal penalties.34
Impact — Regulators lose oversight as failing to report certain activities would no longer be criminalized.5
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Meeting with Kim-Tobias Eling (Cabinet of Commissioner Janez Lenarčič)

19 Jan 2022 · Follow-up to Commission Communication of 2021 on humanitarian action

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and World Vision Brussels & EU Representation ivzw/aisbl and

27 Oct 2021 · UN Food System Summit and Nutrition for Growth Summit

Meeting with Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner) and

21 Oct 2021 · Commissioner Urpilainen's meeting with Scaling Up Nutrition ("SUN") Youth Leaders

Meeting with Lora Borissova (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen), Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and

8 Oct 2021 · Africa-EU partnership

Meeting with Mónica Silvana González (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Apr 2021 · Development Cooperation

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen)

30 Sept 2020 · hunger and malnutrition in partner countries

Meeting with Renaud Savignat (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

11 Sept 2020 · EU Global Health Strategy

Meeting with Diana Montero Melis (Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen) and Save the Children Europe and

2 Apr 2020 · nutrition in partner countries

Response to Evaluation of EU’s emergency trust fund for stability and addressing root causes of migration in Africa

7 Dec 2018

Action Against Hunger welcomes the mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the EUTF. It should be part of a broader effort to monitor its impact on populations and ensure accountability, including through a stronger democratic control of the European Parliament. “The EUTF […] aims to foster stability and to contribute to better migration management”. As clearly stated, the fund aims at responding to the political objective of stemming migration to Europe and does not focuses on development objectives highlighted in the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs, namely eradicating poverty and leaving no one behind. In this sense, it diverts aid from development objectives to a political one. The impact this could have on the principle of “do no harm” and on the populations should be evaluated. One consequence of this fundamental flaw is a lack of ownership of local and national authorities over the EUTF projects. As attested by reports such as Global Health Advocates’, aid effectiveness principles, ownership in particular, have not always been respected by the EUTF: “partner countries’ governments, parliaments and civil society organisations (CSOs) were not engaged in the definition of EUTF country-specific priorities”. Action Against Hunger, respectful of its charter, has chosen to use EUTF funding only under its resilience pillar, for activities improving vulnerable people’s resilience and their access to basic services. Having a flexible funding mechanism allowing swift and timely implementation of actions was welcomed by NGOs. It appears nevertheless that it took more time than anticipated for the EUTF to start having an impact in the field. The flexibility of the fund is also questionable and should be evaluated, as it did not include mechanisms of co-creation of projects, with NGOs seen as implementers only rather than partners. In addition, NGOs were concerned by a lack of transparency regarding the allocation of funding. Improvements have since taken place, including through public calls for proposals and information meetings. Another issue identified by NGOs, and a very concerning one, is the tentative to impose indicators and communication messages on contribution to stemming migration to projects not aiming at this objective despite them not being included in the initial projects. The EUTF, in its resilience pillar, presents nevertheless advantages. It could help implement the humanitarian-development nexus, with its aim of improving communities’ resilience and access to basic services, including in hard-to-reach areas. To ensure the nexus implementation, DEVCO should however work with ECHO to ensure a better coordination between EUTF and ECHO programming; and should ensure that the EUTF aims at reaching the SDGs rather than focusing on hard-to-reach areas located on migration routes to Europe. Based on the above considerations, we recommend the MTE evaluates the following points: -Respect of development aid objectives: eradicating poverty and leaving no one behind. ODA should not be diverted to stemming migration and independent and neutral NGOs should not be pressured into adopting objectives, indicators and messages related to curtailing migration; -Respect of aid effectiveness principles, as partner countries’ ownership should be put at the forefront of the programming; -Accountability to beneficiaries, implementing organisations and domestic constituencies, as well as an effective partnership approach with implementing partners. The MTE should in particular confirm whether the decision-making and contracting processes have allowed for beneficiaries’ needs to be addressed in a timely manner; -Given the lack of transparency and the flexibility in the choice of funding modalities, evaluate whether decision-making was based on objective criteria (expertise, cost-effectiveness, etc.); -EUTF’s role in bridging humanitarian aid and development to increase community resilience; -The respect of policy coherence for development.
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Response to Elements for a EU Strategy for Iraq

20 Nov 2017

As Action Against Hunger, which has been operating in Iraq since 2013, we thank the European Commission for the opportunity offered to us to submit our comments on the proposed roadmap. We do welcome the Commission willingness to adopt a more resilience and recovery focused approach to the crisis while keeping on addressing and providing aid for emergency humanitarian needs, which are likely to remain high long after the end of the military operations against ISIL. We would like to stress how important it is that humanitarian and resilience aid provided thanks to the EU to conflict affected populations remains solely based on thorough analysis and understanding of needs, regardless of beneficiaries’ status (IDPs in or out of camps, returnees, remainees, host communities); which may otherwise alienate parts of the population and heighten tensions among those various groups. Returns remain the biggest humanitarian challenge faced by the country as a whole, and require an adequate response, which should also include policies and programmes for integration of IDPs in their areas of displacement, when those are either enable or unwilling to go back to their areas of origin. As a matter of principle, returns must always be voluntary, dignified and safe. In light of the latest context evolutions in Iraq related to access and the shift to a more complex response spanning from humanitarian to reconstruction, we would encourage the EU to explicitly voice its willingness to support Iraqi authorities in creating an operational environment that is conducive to the work of all NGOs and respectful of humanitarian space and principles. Reducing bureaucratic hurdles across the country (e.g. visas and cumbersome registration process, access letters from several power holders), which have often delayed programmes implementation and impeded aid agencies’ work in both KRI and Federal Iraq would allow the humanitarian community to better response to the needs of the population. In addition to the consultations that were held, and fostering the role of the Iraqi civil society, we would like to stress that both the Iraqi civil society and international NGOs should be involved in the design of all initiatives related to aid, resilience, recovery, reconciliation and other types of activities that aim to improve the lives of Iraqi civilians. Both NNGOs and INGOs share an in-depth understanding of needs across Iraq and have the capacity to address them through emergency and longer-term programming. We welcome the engagement of the EU to invest in both reconciliation and education for children. The scope of support the EU could provide to reconciliation should be developed in this roadmap. It should also be complemented by stronger support to psychosocial and mental health care provided by INGOs, Iraqi CSOs and institutions to both adults and children, who bear the trauma of the current crisis and previous cycles of violence Iraq has witnessed over the past decades. Lastly, in regards to the EU’s dialogue with Iraqi authorities on migration, we stress how crucial it is for any return from Europe of Iraqi refugees to be safe, dignified, informed and voluntary. Under no circumstances should the EU make the provision of assistance of any kind to Iraq conditional to the return of Iraqi refugees currently living in Europe. It is crucial as well to ensure that decision to return people voluntarily, safely and in dignity is based on a thorough and independent assessment of the country of origin situation and its ability to develop adequate and humane reception conditions, to respond to returnees’ basic needs and to guarantee their access to protection, livelihood, land and basic services. The EU should make such commitment in the proposed roadmap.
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Meeting with Sohail Luka (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides), Sohail Luka (Cabinet of Commissioner Christos Stylianides)

17 Oct 2017 · Humanitarian aid

Meeting with Giulio Di Blasi (Cabinet of High Representative / Vice-President Federica Mogherini) and Amnesty International Limited and

25 Nov 2016 · Niger Compact