Mercy Corps, an NGO that gets 26% of its funding from USAID, told Devex that it is making “workforce reductions” in the coming days. The organization did not provide details on how extensive these cuts would be or which projects would be impacted.
Mercy Corps is just the latest international NGO to announce staff cuts following the Trump administration’s 90-day funding freeze on USAID.
The Danish Refugee Council, or DRC, said on Feb. 7 that it planned to cut around 2,000 of its jobs or a quarter of its workforce. U.S. government funding accounted for around $70 million, roughly 14% of DRC’s $500 million budget in 2023, according to the New Humanitarian.