The humanitarian sector has lost the people who do its reporting — but not the reporting itself.

Information management, monitoring & evaluation, and reporting staff have been disproportionately cut as restricted funding has collapsed, yet donor compliance, cluster 5W submissions, and audit requirements remain fully in force. The result is a sector working in structural overcommitment: capacity is down, demands are up, and the gap is being absorbed — silently and unsustainably — by the staff who remain. Without intervention, data quality will erode, donor compliance will slip, and the evidence base for what works in humanitarian response will quietly disappear.