Protracted crises are often filed away as forgotten, receiving less attention — and funding — than other emergencies.
It’s not surprising; fresh crises get more media mileage, and in turn more attention from the humanitarian community, including donors.
But representatives from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department, known as ECHO, and the U.K. Department for International Development based in Khartoum, Sudan would like to challenge that assumption.