DEBATE: This is a opinion peace in relation to the ongoing discussion of a new development policy strategy for Denmark. The development policy strategy "The World we share" failed in its attempt to ensure coherence between humanitarian aid, development cooperation, and peacebuilding. In the new strategy, the government should try again, according to economist Niels Harild. By Niels V.S. Harild Niels Harild is an economist with more than 40 years of international experience in development and humanitarian efforts in conflict zones, with a particular focus on displacement and peacebuilding in organizations such as UNHCR and the World Bank. The Danish government is defining a new development policy strategy. This is done with a national basis in the Law on International Development Work and internationally in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and building on experiences from previous development policy strategies. A new development policy strategy should, of course, take into account

For a decade many have argued that the humanitarian business model was unsustainable. With drastically reduced funding the need for change has become unavoidable - maybe for the good.

Some OECD DAC members are now signaling declining levels in the years to come; not least the US but in Europe primarily due to budgetary constraints, resulting from the need to increase defense spending - In total the cuts could be 50%.