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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2026/2734(RSP))

On the joint communication on humanitarian aid (JOIN(2026)0025)

B-10-2026-0339

on behalf of the Committee on Development · Rapporteur: Barry Andrews

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Parliament's resolution on the joint communication on humanitarian aid welcomes commitments on international humanitarian law and humanitarian principles, condemns obstruction and politicisation of aid, and calls for accountability for violations. It urges the EU to strengthen humanitarian diplomacy, protect aid workers, and increase funding for women-led organisations and local actors, while ensuring needs-based, people-centred humanitarian reform. The resolution calls for an integrated approach to fragility, linking humanitarian, development and peace action, and for regular monitoring and reporting to Parliament.

Key points

  1. Condemns obstruction of humanitarian aid and its politicisation; recalls that customary international humanitarian law binds all parties to conflict.
  2. Calls on the Commission, EEAS and member states to strengthen actions to safeguard humanitarian space, ensure IHL compliance, and address gaps in monitoring violations.
  3. Urges the Council, High Representative and member states to ensure restrictive measures include standing humanitarian exemptions, building on UN Security Council Resolution 2664.
  4. Calls for increased support for humanitarian worker safety, including training, common security standards, and making 'Protect Aid Workers' a permanent global programme.
  5. Calls for a common EU strategy for humanitarian diplomacy, developed with humanitarian actors, and for strengthening coordination and monitoring of IHL violations.
  6. Calls for placing women and girls at the centre of humanitarian response, providing 5% of ODA in fragile contexts to women-led organisations, and funding the SHIELD programme.
  7. Regrets aid budget cuts by some member states; calls on them to meet the 0.7% ODA commitment with 10% for humanitarian action, and to apply needs-based criteria.
  8. Supports the localisation agenda, asking the Commission to report by end of 2026 on progress towards delivering 25% of humanitarian funding to local actors by 2027.
  9. Calls for an integrated approach to fragility, ensuring coherence across humanitarian, development and security instruments, and scaling up support for displaced populations and host communities.
  10. Warns against subordinating humanitarian assistance to non-humanitarian objectives, and asks for guidance on joint funding for humanitarian-development-peace actions.
  11. Calls for regular monitoring of fragility commitments and a two-yearly report to Parliament, and for an implementation plan for the joint communication.

Who is affected

  • Humanitarian workers, including local staff, who would benefit from enhanced security, training and mental health support.
  • Women and girls in crisis settings, who are to be prioritised in humanitarian response and receive increased funding for women-led organisations.
  • Local humanitarian actors, who are to receive more direct funding and play a stronger role in decision-making.
  • Displaced populations and host communities, who are to receive scaled-up support and durable solutions.

Figures and deadlines

  • 300 million people currently in need of humanitarian aid; UN appeal for USD 33 billion to reach 135 million people in 2026.
  • UN appeal in 2025 received only USD 12 billion, the lowest level of funding in a decade.
  • Humanitarian supply chains account for up to 80% of total humanitarian spending worldwide.
  • Share of bilateral humanitarian aid with gender equality objectives stagnated at 17% in 2021-2022; women-led organisations receive only 0.4% of bilateral aid in fragile states.
  • Calls for 5% of ODA in fragile contexts to be provided to women-led and women's rights organisations.
  • Calls on member states to meet the EU's collective commitment to provide 0.7% of gross national income as ODA, with 10% dedicated to humanitarian action.
  • Target to deliver, by 2027, 25% of humanitarian funding as directly as possible to local actors.