Tom Fletcher, the UN Humanitarian chief, recently gave a very hard-hitting interview at Chatham House (UK) about international aid. It's good to see both advocacy for aid not war, and also more adoption of cost-effectiveness as a driving force within the aid sector (rather than "logos, egos, silos"). I found it an informative and inspiring interview and worth a watch, particularly if you're UK based and could share in ways that build up political momentum for aid restoration.

Having done some research, the $23 billion to save 87 million lives numbers come from the humanitarian action plan (available here: https://humanitarianaction.info/document/global-humanitarian-overview-2026 ) and "saved" means, in this context, a person in urgent need who receives humanitarian assistance, not a person who would have died without such assistance and who lives having received it.