David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), presents the new IRC Emergency Watchlist report, highlighting the countries at highest risk of humanitarian crises in 2025 and examining where the international community has made progress or fallen short.
The Emergency Watchlist report is the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergencies each year. The report is based on an analytically rigorous process that deploys 74 quantitative and qualitative variables, as well as qualitative insights from the IRC’s experience of working in more than 40 countries, to identify which countries to include on the list and where to rank them.
For the past decade, the Emergency Watchlist has helped the IRC track humanitarian needs, driving both our decision-making to meet those challenges and our understanding of the changes in the world. One theme is especially important: Humanitarian needs are increasingly concentrated in Emergency Watchlist