📅 18 – 19 March 2024
Brussels, Belgium
The Forum will take place in the context of sharply increasing humanitarian needs, changing geopolitical realities, and a shrinking humanitarian space. The 2024 edition of the European Humanitarian Forum will be co-hosted by the European Commission and Belgium in its capacity as president of the Council of the EU.
The event will offer an opportunity to further strengthen the cooperation and partnership among countries affected by crises, donors, international stakeholders, the EU, and its Member States.
Through high-level discussions, political debates, and brainstorming sessions, the Forum will serve to jointly put forward innovative, sustainable, and efficient approaches to address current challenges.
Global humanitarian needs have reached unprecedented levels. In 2024 nearly 300 million people around the world will need humanitarian assistance and protection, due to conflicts, climate emergencies, and other drivers.
Following the success of the first two editions of the European Humanitarian Forum in March 2022 and 2023, the third edition will continue to look at humanitarian aid in a wider, cross-sectoral context. The Forum will explore and address the implications of the current, most pressing humanitarian crises, including relevant interaction of humanitarian aid with other key sectors and policy areas. Additionally, the Forum will bring together local actors, to jointly propose innovative, more sustainable solutions to contemporary humanitarian challenges.
